HI Students, please create an Anansi myth. It should be at least 300 words long. Complete this in Google Docs and share the document with me. Include a picture or visual to go along with your myth. The character of Anansi should be in keeping with his trickster character. Here is that Anansi cartoon we watched in class: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0dsjv9c5MU

Thanks! Mrs G

HI Students:

Please watch this myth of the Dogon tribe. (skip the ads, please!)

 

The Dogon are an ethnic group living in the central plateau region of Mali, in West Africa, south of the Niger bend, near the city of Bandiagara and in Burkina Faso. The population numbers between 400,000 and 800,000. It is a much different creation myth involving pottery and other interesting elements! Please draw your own version of the Nummo twins (yikes!) Please also practice your African geography and we will have another map quiz challenge in class! Have a great week and stay warm and cozy! Mrs. G 

HI Students, Please review this map of Africa again this week. We will work on country identification for a bit in clas before going more in depth with the Yoruba myths and deities (gods). Here is a map to look at:

Have a great week! Mrs. G

Hi Students! Please fill in your map of Africa and color each country a different color (there can be duplicate colors.) Please bring this to class. Here is a map to reference: http://ontheworldmap.com/africa/

We will quiz each other next week just for fun! Have a great week! Mrs. G

Hi Students,

This week you MUST finish the codex and bring it to class. You will need to exchange it first thing with each other to decipher. We will not have time in class to work on it. Have a great week, Mrs. G

Hi Students! Next week please bring your myth written out, a reference guide for your 50 pictographs, Your folding codex filled with 50 pictographs that tell your myth. Here is a link to the rubric:

We will decipher them in class next week. We will also move onto our next culture. 

Gabe: welcome to World Myth! Please bring a myth of your own making to class next week. It should be a short story about 200 words or so. You may hand write it or print it out. Here are a few reference videos to help:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYcWs7qJeCI

Thanks! Have a great week! Mrs. G

 

Levi: here is the ancient warfare video you missed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heeOSwoBOjk&t=744s

 

Hi Students: Please come with your myth finished and your reference guide ready to go. We will do a couple last minute Mayan projects and attempt to decipher each other's myths. Have a great week! Mrs. G

Hey Students! Nice job on your myths and pictographs! This week finish the rest of your 50+ pictographs and feel free to start drawing them in your codex. We will work on that again in class and finish them with cool feathers next week.

Please also finish your reference guide which should be the code to your myth (pictographs with the meaning underneath) Mix them us so we have to decipher the meaning of your myth!

For next week:

Please bring: 

1. Your myth is written in English and finished. 
2. You have 50 pictographs that represent the words in your myth. 
3. You have a separate reference guide for your pictographs 

 

Next week in class we will begin “scribing” the pictographs in our final Codex (folding book) This should go fairly quickly because you have already finished your myth and pictograph reference guide.

Have Fun! Mrs. G 

Hi Students!! This week you will write your Mayan myth. It must be complex enough to support 50 mayan pictographs. In your myth you must include at least three aspects of Mayan culture. For example, you could include corn, stepped pyramids, sinote or underground wells, the ball game, the Hero Twins. Etc. It needs to seem "Mayan." Remember that not every word needs its own picture. You just need a picture for each part of the story and enough pictures that someone using your code could understand the myth. Finish writing your story and draw at least half of your Mayan pictographs (25) this week. We will rewrite them in a book we'll make in class starting next week. Thanks! Have a great week! Mrs. G 

Hi Students, Thank you for a lively discussion regarding the Mayans and math! This week please watch this video about the Mayans and their beliefs regarding the "Underworld." Here is the link. Please skip any ads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYcWs7qJeCI

After watching this video, please write a paragraph summarizing how the Mayans felt about this place and what they believed about the Underworld. Your paragraph should have 6-7 complete sentences. Please open a new Google Doc and title it : Your Name: The Mayan Underworld  

Please then share the document with me: [email protected]

Thanks! Have a great week! Mrs. G