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Bell Work. Where do we look to find the meaning of life? Where do we look to answer questions about what is important? What is meaningful? Where do we look find what it means to be human? Where do we look to find how to conduct ourselves to live a good life?

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  1. Bell Work • Where do we look to find the meaning of life? • Where do we look to answer questions about what is important? What is meaningful? • Where do we look find what it means to be human? • Where do we look to find how to conduct ourselves to live a good life? • Where do we look to find that answers to why things are the way they are?

  2. Native American Oral tradition

  3. Standard Measured • 9.4.9.9 Analyze how an author draws on and transforms source material in a specific work • Students can • read and provide textual evidence to explain understanding of the elements of oral tradition • analyze how a writer uses elements of oral tradition to a contemporary work of literature.

  4. Why is Native American Oral Tradition important? • American Indian cultures have been preserved and shared through many generations. • The stories express • Values and beliefs • What it means to be human • Our need to know why things are the way they are • How to conduct ourselves to live in a good way

  5. Why is Native American Oral Tradition important? • The beliefs and traditions from the stories connect people to • The land • Plant life • All living creatures • The mysteries of • Birth • Life • Death • The Spirit World

  6. When were Stories Told? • Traditional storytelling was saved for the winter months • During other seasons they were busy growing, gathering, and hunting food • It was a way to entertain children during the long, dark, cold, snowy wintery evenings • Many stories contained animal characters, and it was respectful to wait until the winter when many animals hibernate so they can hear themselves being talked about • Native Americans Value Four Natural Elements • Fire, Land, Wind, and Water

  7. What Kind of Stories were Told? • American Indian stories include • Personal and family stories • Creation stories • Tribal history • Stories of explanation • In recent years, some of the stories have been translated into English and written down. As a result, stories sometimes lose their original humor and meaning.

  8. Elements of Oral Tradition • Story is meant to be spoken or read aloud • In the form of a narrative • Story is in chronological order • Voice determine point-of-view • Explains the origin of human existence • Describes the purposes of people and their relationship with the Earth • Articulates religious beliefs and spiritual philosophies • Teach morals and lessons

  9. Bell Work • Write down as many of the elements of Oral Tradition from yesterday’s lecture as you can remember. There are eight (8).

  10. Bell Work • According to the lecture on Wednesday, when are stories typically told in Indian tradition? Why? • What is typically expressed in Native American Indian Oral Tradition stories?

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