How Night Came from the Sea

1. How Night Came from the Sea Compiled by: Terry Sams PES Melissa Guinn PES Retold by Mary-Joan Gerson Illustrated by Carla Golembe

2. Study Skills • Genre: Pourquoi Tale • Comprehension Skill: Generalize • Comprehension Strategy: Visualize • Comprehension Review Skill: Cause and Effect • Vocabulary: Context Clues

3. Summary Why do we have day and night? A Brazilian legend says there was always daylight on Earth until the African goddess Iemanja’s daughter left her ocean home to marry a land dweller. When Iemanja’s daughter became homesick for the cool, shadowy world under the sea, her mother sent some of the darkness up to her, and now we have night on land as well as day.

4. Genre:Pourquoi tales • Pourquoi tales are stories that explain how things in nature came to be. It is a myth that explains how something in nature came to be. Pourpuoi is French for “why”. • Learn more about folktales

5. Comprehension Skill ReviewGeneralize TE 337b • A generalization is a broad statement or rule that applies to many examples. • Clue words: all, most, always, usually, generally

6. Comprehension Skill ReviewGeneralize TE 337b • Some generalizations are valid, which means that they are supported by facts or details. Some are faulty. Which means that they are not supported.

7. Comprehension Skill Review:Cause and Effect TE 323 • As you read, look for cause and effect relationships. • A cause is what made something happen. • An effect is what happens. • Sometimes a cause will have more than one effect. • Words such as because, so, and since are clues to causes and effects.

8. 1. What is a generalization? They went during the summer because the weather was usually good. 2. What is another generalization? He and Jim usually hike an hour or two. 3. What is a clue word for number 2? Usually 4. What is another generalization? Campfire often burned late into the night. What is a clue word for number 4? Often Practice GeneralizationPB116

9. Question 1 • How have people explained the pattern of day and night?

10. Question 2 • How would you describe nighttime to someone who has never experienced it?

11. Question 3 • How might How Night Came from the Sea be different if it took place in the cold Artic?

12. Question 4 • What evidence does the narrator of The Ant and the Bear give to “prove” that the story is true?

13. Review Questions • What did Lemanja and the husband have in common? • How did the husband show his love for his wife? • What is the theme of the story? • Why did Iemanja call the servants foolish? • When the creatures were placed in the bag, why were they so loud?

14. Review Questions 6. What made the bag the servants were carrying so large? • If the daughter had not been present when the creatures were released, what might have happened? • What did the daughter give three gifts in celebration of her new home? • How does the daughter think of night?

15. Review Questions • What supports that nighttime occurs quickly in Brazil? • What is a generalization you can make, based on the story, about leaving home?

16. Vocabulary - Say It • brilliant • gleamed • shimmering • chorus • coward

17. More Words to Know • dwells • reigns • creatures • darkness • prowl

18. brilliant • shining brightly; sparkling

19. chorus anything spoken or sung all at the same time

20. coward person who lack courage or is easily made afraid; person who runs from danger, trouble, etc.

21. gleamed flashed or beamed with light

22. gleaming or shining faintly shimmering

23. dwells makes your home; lives

24. reigns rules, as over a kingdom

25. creatures any living things

26. darkness night; state of being without light or with very little light

27. prowl go about slowly and secretly like an animal hunting for something to eat or a thief looking for something to steal

28. He dwells in a white house with a flower garden and a pale fence around the yard.

29. He dwells in a white house with a flower garden and a pale fence around the yard.

30. The city was plunged into darkness by the power outage.

31. The city was plunged into darkness by the power outage.

32. There was a fox on the prowl earlier.

33. There was a fox on the prowl earlier.

34. They burst into a chorus of Happy Birthday.

35. They burst into a chorus of Happy Birthday.

36. Queen Victoria reigned over Britain from 1837 to 1901.

37. Queen Victoria reigned over Britain from 1837 to 1901.

38. In the winter, some creatures hibernate in a cave.

39. In the winter, some creatures hibernate in a cave.

40. The sky was a brilliant, cloudless blue.

41. The sky was a brilliant, cloudless blue.

42. She could see her reflection in the water, shimmering in the moonlight.

43. She could see her reflection in the water, shimmering in the moonlight.

44. People who explore Antarctica are not cowards.

45. People who explore Antarctica are not cowards.

46. Early this morning, sunlight gleamed through my window.

47. Early this morning, sunlight gleamed through my window.

48. Spelling WordsVowel sound in shout • however • mountain • mound • scout • shout • couch • towel • ounce • coward • outdoors

49. Spelling WordsVowel sound in shout • flowerpot • scowl • browse • announce • hound • trout • drowsy • grouch • eyebrow • boundary

50. CHALLENGE • califlower • foundation • surround • allowance • counselor