Unit 1

1. This unit will cover oral stories about things that happened long ago. We use oarl traditions to help us know what happened back in the time like write songs or myths. We used a song called jingo bells to help remember that it came from back in time but it's always remembered.

2.Michael row the baot ashore.... Michael row the boat ashore,Hallelujah
Michael row the baot ahore....Hallelujah
Sister help to trim the sail, Hallelujah
Sister help to trim the sail, Hallelujah

3.My example of American Literature was a story. I found the story on google. The story is about a boy trying to get his boat back to shore. His sister helped him, it took time. When he got the boat back to shore. He always kept saying Hallelujah.

4.Yes , I can tell what was important to the people. They wanted to get to earth before anyone else did. Onandaga wanted to be the first one's to know about the earth. I can tell because, they raced to getting to it. This is very sad,"he said, "for it's a dream of great power and we must do all we can to make it come true".

5.
When the Earth was young it had a family. The moon, or Grandmother and the sun, called Grandfather. The Earth was a woman - Mother Earth - because from her came all living things. Mother Earth was given four directions - East, South, West, and North, each with physical and spiritual powers.When Mother Earth was young Creator, or Gichi-Manidoo as Ojibwe people call him, filled her with beauty. He sent singers in the form of birds and swimmers in the water. He placed plants, trees, insects, crawlers and four-legged animals on the land.Gichi-Manidoo then blew into four parts of Mother Earth using the sacred megis shell. From the union of these four and his breath, two-leggeds or man, was born. Thus, man was the last form of life to be put on Earth. From this original man came the Anishinaabe - or The Original People.
 
In this myth they said that earth had a family. They also gave the people on earth a name. They said earth was a woman. All living things came from mother earth. She was given four diretions North, South, East, West. She then invented insects and birds. They felt that creating the earth was important.Mother Earth was given four directions - East, South, West, and North, each with physical and spiritual powers. I personally dont see any similarities from the myths I have read. Yes there are simalarities in out culture because people still have children. The animals still make children. Thats wat makes earth.

CLOSING:
In this unit I thought that we would learn about oral stories. We used oral traditions to learn what happened back in the days. I learned that things back then is very important for us to know know a days.