1. Today’s checklist Warm-up – punctuating quotations
Take up Huron creation myth fishbone
Punctuating quotations
How Glooskap Found the Summer
Creation myths – personal response
Cultural elements activity
Writing your own pourquoi tale

2. Take at face value, or…only the two of them can understand each other
Take at face value, or…only the two of them can understand each other? She’s a professional donkey whisperer? Boyfriend and girlfriend who’ve been cursed? Aliens who didn’t quite get their disguises right?

3. Dialogue
In the following photograph, imagine what the two people could be discussing.
With a partner, write a properly punctuated dialogue of at least 5 lines between them.

5. How Glooskap Found the Summer
Highlight or underline the elements of the fishbone as you read the myth

6. Personal response What do you think of creation myths?
Do creation myths and pourquoi tales still serve a purpose, despite that our society relies on science to explain the world around us?

7. Cultural elements of myths
All myths reveal important values of the cultures to which they belong
You will rotate partners to complete the cultural elements activity
Cultural Elements

8. Ideas for Pourquoi Tales
♦ Why Owl Has Big Eyes
♦ Why Dogs Howl at the Moon
♦ Why Snake Has No Feet or Hands
♦ Why Geese Fly in the Shape of a V
♦ Why Birds Have Many Colors
♦ Why Roses Have Thorns
♦ Why Pigs Have Curly Tails
♦ Why There are Rainbows
♦ Why There Are Oceans
♦ Why Some Trees Lose Their Leaves and Others are Evergreen
♦ How Jellyfish Came to Be
♦ Why the Big Toe is So Much Bigger than the Other Toes
♦ Why Porcupine Has Quills

9. Start with the end
To begin your pourquoi tale, you must start at the end
What are you going to explain in your tale?