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Teacher Resource Kit:
Myths, Legends & Stories
In First Nations Cultures
(List of Educational Materials)
Part 1: Background: Oral Traditions In First Nations Cultures
1. What Are Oral Traditions?
(Background Information + Questions for Students)
2. What Do Myths, Legends & Stories Teach Us?
(Background Information + Questions for Students)
3. Myths, Legends & Stories + Examples of Each
(Background Information + Questions for Students)
4. Storytellers
(Background Information + Questions for Students)
5. Myths, Legends & Stories Through Songs & Recitations
(An example of one type of storytelling)
(Background Information + Two Class Discussion Ideas + One Extension
Assignment Re. Inuit goddess Sedna)
6. The Symbol of the Circle in First Nations Cultures
(Background Information + Questions for Students)
Part 2: Myths, Legends & Stories from First Nations Cultures
List of Readings & Summary Tool for Students:
1.
List of Myths, Legends & Stories Included in this Teacher Resource Kit
(Handout)
2.
Tool to Help Students Summarize the Myths, Legends & Stories (Handout)
The Myths, Legends & Stories:
3.
The Wolf Clan & the Salmon
(A Story from the Northwest Coast)
(Story + Questions About the Reading)
4.
Healing Through the Drum (A Personal Story)
(Saddle Lake First Nations)
(Story + Questions About the Reading)
5.
Crow Indian Water Medicine (Crow Legend)
(Legend + Questions About the Reading)
6.
The Vision of Tailfeather Woman (Ojibwe Legend)
(Legend + Questions About the Reading)
7.
Hiwatha (Algonquin Story)
(Story + Questions About the Reading)
8.
The Earth World (Mohawk Creation Myth)
(Myth + Questions About the Reading)
9.
Elderberry Flute Song (Poem & Modern Iroquoian Myth)
(Poem/Myth + Questions About the Reading)
Major Assignment (Essay) + Grading Rubric:
10.
Myths, Legends & Stories in First Nations Cultures: Applying Lessons
Learned to Contemporary Issues
(Essay Assignment)
11.
Grading Rubric to Accompany Essay Assignment on Myths, Legends &
Stories in First Nations Cultures