Reading Notes: Alaskan Legends Part A
From Alaskan Legends by Katharine Berry Judson (1911).
Raven's Creation
Raven's Creation
- Beach pea!!! Making me homesick
- People as plants
- Raven's beak is a mask
- Salmon berries!!!!!
- Raven makes the world out of clay
- Super interested in the fact that the clay woman was white... That sounds like some Western values got translated into the story
- Each animal made for a purpose
- Bears were a safeguard against humans
- Distinction between different types of people (by region)
- Much longer paragraphs
- Description of mythical animal, small people, place
- Creation of white bears
- Emphasis placed on education and knowledge
- Man and Raven ruling over the people
- Reindeer with sharp teeth - scary!
- Raven using a skin bag - culturally relevant materials/tools
- Feels totally convoluted - lots of plot twists
- Raven gets angry and floods the world
- Unfloods it to prove a point?
- Chaotic leader
- Set in the distant past
- Raven has ambiguous species -- bird or person
- No reason given why Raven created the tides, just the "how"
- A little confused by this one. What did the Groundhogs have to do with the feast? I guess it doesn't matter
- Birds flying south as a marker of time (late fall)
- Raven made himself a pretty necklace
- Raven limited by raven characteristics
- Failed romance
- SIMPLE dialogue
- Hungry Mungry style
- I love this
- Lots of details about how he prepared food, accomplished tasks
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- Raven is terrifying!
- Sneaky boat-repair instructions in this one, facts about Pitch
- "Qaq, qaq, qaq!"
- "Oh Raven Raven Raven, how well you dance!"
- Classic ego
- Interactions of the animal archetypes
- Wisdom emphasized
- Lots of stories about the unequal night and day
- Do sea lions throw pebbles at people?
- Establishing relationships among animals, roles
- Beavers cut down trees because Raven stole their lake?
- Beavers described as people with feathers on their heads
Hey again,
ReplyDeleteI noticed we read the same units so I thought it would be fun to see the differences in our notes. I love the way you use bullet points. They are concise and to the point but still get to the heart of the stories. I tend to use paragraphs and they can be cumbersome when I go to look back over my notes later in order to write my stories.
I also want to know if sea lions throw pebbles at people though, I haven't heard of that problem before.
Elyse