Today:
We talked about the oral tradition of storytelling.
We looked at the evolution of recording stories. We went from stones, to cave paintings, to the printing press....
We played a quick game of Telephone to show what happens to a story after it is passed around. We speculated that many of these same problems happened with the early stories that we are about to read.
We talked about:
The "value" of a good story
Using stories to explain the unknown
Using them to entertain
Using them to teach
Earliest stories recorded the following:
Creation stories/religious beliefs
Explaining natural events, like the sun rising, etc.
War/hero stories of valor
Recipes
HW: Read pgs 2-14 in your anthology. Three question quiz Thursday.
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