WebQuest
American Literature
Origins and Encounters 2000 B..-A.D 1620
Harmony with Nature
First Encounters
Attachments
File
-
Historical Background
Description: Native American Traditions • Historical Background • Voices from the Times
Web Link
-
The World on the Turtle´s Back
Description: Preliminary Introduction
File
-
Iroquois: The World on the Turtle´s Back (myth)
Description: Did you know? • BoththeU.S. Constitution and the founding charter of the United Nations are based on ideas found in the Iroquois constitution, known as “The Great Binding Law.” • Iroquois women had many more rights than colonial American women. • More than 50,000 Iroquois live in the United States today.
File
-
After Reading Comprehension—“The World on the Turtle’s Back”
Description: • compare and contrast through a Venn diagram. • Analyze and draw conclusions of a myth
Web Link
-
Iroquois: The World on the Turtle´s Back
Description: Quizlet exercise
Web Link
-
Mourning Dove, Okanogan: Coyote and the Buffalo (folk tale)
Description: Preliminary introduction
File
-
Mourning Dove, Okanogan: Coyote and the Buffalo (folk tale)
Description: Did you know? Mourning Dove: - was born in a canoe while her. mother was crossing a river - learned to read English by poring over melodramatic dime-store novels - was the first woman ever elected to the Colville tribal council.
Web Link
-
Mourning Dove, Okanogan: Coyote and the Buffalo
Description: Quizlet exercise
Web Link
-
Leslie Marmon: The Man to Send Rain Clouds (1969) (short story)
Description: Preliminary Introduction
File
-
Leslie Marmon: The Man to Send Rain Clouds (1969) (short story)
Description: This is not traditional oral literature but a short story in a modern setting by a contemporary Native American writer.
File
-
Scott Momaday: The Way to Rainy Mountain (1969) (nonfiction)
Description: Did you know that N. Scott Momaday . . . • rode the bus 28 miles to and from school as a teenager? • taught both middle school and high school on the Jicarilla reservation in New Mexico before becoming a professional writer? • won the Pulitzer Prize, the most prestigious U.S. literary award, for his very first novel?
Web Link
-
Scott Momaday: The Way to Rainy Mountain (1969)
Description: Quizlet exercise
The Public URL for this WebQuest:
http://zunal.com/webquest.php?w=137384
WebQuest Hits: 36,772
Save WebQuest as PDF
