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Is Grace Modeled After A Real Zulu Healer?. White Giraffe Inquiry Book Club By Jacqueline, Ellie, and Rylan. Are Zulu Healers Men or Women?. Women usually take the job of a Zulu healer. Grace is a woman, like common Zulu healers. Can Zulu Healers P redict the Future ?.
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Is Grace Modeled After A Real Zulu Healer? White Giraffe Inquiry Book Club By Jacqueline, Ellie, and Rylan
Are Zulu Healers Men or Women? • Women usually take the job of a Zulu healer. • Grace is a woman, like common Zulu healers.
Can Zulu Healers Predict the Future? • Sometimes the insagoma, or healer can predict the future. • Grace predicted the future of Martine and her parents.
How in the World do Zulu Healers Predict the Future?! • To predict the future, Zulu healers throw bones. • Grace threw small bones, porcupine quills, guinea fowl feathers, and a couple of elephant hairs to help Martine find the White Giraffe.
Do Zulu Healers Recover Stolen Goods? • Insagomasare expected to recover stolen goods. • Martine and her Grandma went to Grace for her help to find out where the poachers had taken the White Giraffe. With Grace’s help, they found the White Giraffe.
Do Zulu Healers Work Alone? • They usually work alone but, sometimes they work with a medicine man. • Grace works alone like most Zulu healers.
Zulu Healer Is this how you imagined Grace?
So, do you Think Grace is Based on a Zulu Healer? Now that you have seen our comparison, do you think that Grace was modeled after a real person or not?
Bibliography • http://mediaglobal.org/ • http://www.freewebs.com/ • http://www.junglecats.com/ • http://www.flickr.com/ • http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/aflang/zulu/culture.html#healing