You can see this student picked the words time, forrest, stable and burial to be in his Archaic Word Bracket Final Four. I love these four words. They seem to be the perfect four words to describe what we learned about the Archaic.
The word burial describes the Archaic because their culture started to bury their dead. The word stable is picked because it describes the climate. Once the climate stabilized forests could grow and smaller mammals were hunted. Time was picked because the Archaic were much better hunters. This success with hunting allowed the Archaic time to concentrate on other things besides looking for food. With that time the Archaic started to create the arts. They made pots and masks which were important parts of their culture. Finally the word forrest described the new living environment of the Archaic.
One thing that I have enjoyed about learning about these early cultures in Ohio is how it ties into what we are learning about in reading. In reading we are continuing to discuss Native American beliefs about the earth and the sky. This week we have been reading some Native American Pourquoi Tales.
The word pourquoi is French and in French the word translates to why. So far we have read Pourquoi Tales that explain why the crow has black feathers, why the porcupine has quills, and why the red bird is red. The class has started to keep a list of characteristics that they notice about these stories. Obviously they have noticed that the stories explain the reason for the way something is today, but the have also noticed so much more. Today on the characteristics list we added the idea that in the stories a character is usually being rewarded. The rest of this week we are going to continue to read Pourquoi Tales and analyze how they are similar and different to the tales we have already read.
I hope that you are enjoying your week.
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