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Exploring Cultural Motifs: Myths and Oral Traditions

In this assignment, students will engage with myths and creation stories to understand common motifs across cultures. Begin by reading "Three Fish," then summarize the moral in your own words and tape it under the stated objective. Define myths and creation myths from pages 460-461. The objective is to recognize motifs and compare oral traditions, focusing on characters, events, and common themes. Next, read "Coyote Steals the Sun and the Moon" and "Brer Rabbit and Brer Lion" from page 467. Use a double bubble map to compare these stories or their main characters, and complete the open-book quiz.

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Exploring Cultural Motifs: Myths and Oral Traditions

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  1. Warm up • Read “Three Fish”. At the bottom of the page, put the moral in your own words - Tape in half sheet under objective • Define myths and creation myths on your sheet of paper (pg460-461) Write the objective in ISNObjective: Recognize motif and compare oral traditions

  2. Motif A character, event, image or theme that appears in literature of many cultures

  3. Example: an animal that is a trickster character, bad luck, death, etc.

  4. Supernatural helpers

  5. Magical objects

  6. seasons

  7. witches

  8. The poor sister who has to worked hard and is tortured by her evil step sisters. However, she get the prince in the end

  9. colors

  10. Turn to Page 463 • Coyote Steals the Sun and the Moon

  11. Assignment • Read Brer Rabbit and Brer Lion – pg 467 PROCESS ONLY • At the top, process with a double bubble map comparing and contrasting Coyote Steals… and Brer Rabbit… OR just the two main characters in each story. • Complete the open-book quiz.

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