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Period 6- Very little class time remained after MSA testing. See homework below

Period 4-
Your classmates retold the Native American myths you read last time to their groups. Based on the four tales, they groups decided what they thought was important about myths in terms of content, organization, and tone/voice. After spending some time discussing this as a group, we came together as a class and decided on a class rubric for the weather myth project. Here it is:

Myth Rubric


Content (4/5) 15 points (*= necessary element) :

• Repetition (3)
• Personification-not just animals
• Tells how something came to be (nature) *
• Characters- innocent youth, wise, some make obstacles for main characters, common stock, single dimensional characters etc.(undefined; not developed) *
• Magical/ supernatural

Organization 5 points:

• Problem (towards beginning, single and simple) and solution
• short exposition
• relatively short and simple (2-3 pages double spaced)
• Setting- undefined; general (not modern)

Tone/ Voice 5 points:

• third person
• factual
• simple
• omniscient
• general
• undefined

-2.5 points taken off for conventions and word choice (teacher discretion)

After creating this rubric, your classmates shared their own myth ideas (from the myth prewriting sheet due today) with the other members of their groups. Groups decided what their classmates could improve in terms of the student-generated rubric.

See homework below.