1. Touching Spirit Bear: Quiz Chp. 20-end  Touching Spirit Bear is wrought with symbols. We have already discussed some of these like the hot dog, the ancestor rock, and the animal dances, but there are several other symbols, too. For instance, totem poles, spirit bear, sparrows, water, fire, and the at.oow are symbols in the book as well.  Choose one of these additional symbols and explain its meaning in the story in a 3 paragraph formal essay

2. Tlingit of Alaska

3.  Totem poles are collections of symbols that represent important events, stories, status, and kinship in the history of families in Native American tribes of the Pacific Northwest, like the Tlingit.  http://users.imag.net/~sry.jkramer/nativetotems/defau lt.html http://users.imag.net/~sry.jkramer/nativetotems/defau lt.html

4. Creating your totem with words and symbols