Bell Ringer Activity

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Bell Ringer Activity

• Create a word web with the word Coyote in the
  middle
• What traits or characteristics do you associate
  with coyotes?
• Fill in the outer circles with your impressions

Coyote
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Coyote Stories

• Okanogan Folktales

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Literary Terms

• Review Myths are traditional stories, passed
  down through generations, that explain why the
  world is the way that it is
• Folktales Stories handed down, usually by word
  of mouth, from generation to generation
• Some Scholars consider myths to be a special
  category of folk tale
• Trickster Tales Folk tales that feature an
  animal or human character who engages in deceit,
  violence, or magic

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Folktales
Myths
Trickster tales
Creation Myths
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Trickster Tales

• Folk tales that feature an animal or human
  character who engages in deceit, violence, or
  magic
• Often trickster tales are mythic, explaining
  features of the world

• In Native American oral traditions the character
  is often a coyote, but sometimes it is Raven,
  Mink, Hare, or Blue Jay
• In other world cultures, the trickster is a
  spider, a rabbit, or a fox

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The Three Roles of a Trickster

• According to the folklorist Stith Thompson,
  tricksters may appear in any of of three roles
• The Beneficent Culture Hero
• The Clever Deceiver
• The Numskull

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Okanogan People

• Originally lived in what is now north central
  Washington State and southern British Columbia
• Told folktales in their native language Salish

• Mourning Dove (Christine Quintasket) was an
  Okanogan descendant who recorded traditional
  Okanogan stories in the early 1900s
• Two popular Okanogan folktales are Coyote and
  The Buffalo and Fox and Coyote and Whale, both
  of which belong to the oral tradition of the
  history of the Animal People

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Animal People

• A race of supernatural beings believed to have
  been the first inhabitants of the earth
• They had magical powers and could alter their
  shapes
• They usually appeared in animal form but could
  also take human form
• When human beings appeared on the earth, the
  Animal People were changed into different animal
  species

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Coyote

• One of the most important Animal People
• A central figure in Coyote and Buffalo and
  Fox, Coyote, and Whale

• Thought to have made the world habitable for
  humans by killing monsters and bringing fire and
  salmon, among other deeds
• Coyote stories are told in many Native American
  cultures across the western states

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Coyote as Contradictory

• In Coyote and Buffalo and Fox, Coyote, and
  Whale, Coyote demonstrates the tricksters
  contradictory qualities
• Foolish yet clever
• Greedy yet helpful
• Immoral yet moral

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Finally, the numskull Coyote that we all love!!
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Study Sheet for Coyote Stories
(pp.39-37) Front Back

• Literary Terms
• Write the literary terms on page 39
• and its definition
• Folk Tales
• Trickster Tales
• Readers Notebook (see p.39)
• Read the Coyote Stories aloud and jot
• down notes in a chart like the one below

Answer the following questions using the P.I.E.
format (Point, Information, Explanation) Thinkin
g Through the Literature (p.42) 2 Think
Critically (p.46) 2 3 4
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The Three Roles of a Trickster

• According to the folklorist Stith Thompson,
  tricksters may appear in any of of three roles
• The Beneficent Culture Hero
• The Clever Deceiver
• The Numskull

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The Three Roles of a Trickster