Brit Lit:

Today
We collected your former journals from storage and went over the expectations in my class for these.

Journal Prompt #1:  Please write an original creation story that explains the following:  Life/death, the seasons, night vs. day, good vs. evil
CP/CPA = 1/2 page, H= 1 page.

We defined the characteristics of creation stories:
Often tied to religion
characters are animals/deities/spirits that can transform.
Set in a dim distant past
Answers questions connected to that culture
Filled with symbolism
Not everything is explained- often just happens

I passed around a story, and we re-told it to another student until it worked all the way around the class.  We looked at the final version and talked about the difficulty in the oral tradition.  Most notably, that stories change each time they are re-told.

We talked about the importance of documenting things to preserve the truth.

We read The Seafarer and looked at the surviving lit. of 449.  We looked at the influence that monks had on stories, specifically ho religious overtones found there way into tales.

HW Please read the historical account of this time on pgs 6-15.  Expect a quiz on this and your notes today.