Dr. Johnson's Reading Blog

Students are using their Chromebooks to inquire into mythology. By the end of the morning they are to creat their own definition if myth. Some of the definitions included: Shavon - " Before science people wanted to come up with reasons that we have seasons weather and other things they didn't know why we had so they came up with the gods to explain these things.Each god is in control of a different phenomena there story's explain why we have that phenomena and how we have it." Essence: " Stories that teach a lesson and explain an event in the world." Aaron: " A myth is a story that explains something, or teaches us something that we could not explain on our own. Now, obviously we can figure them out through new technology, but back then they wanted to have an explanation, so they made up gods, monsters, and other things that they included in their stories." You can view our LiveBinder to view our resources for our study.

Here is the speech we listened to by Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce Native Americans. It was only fitting that as we are learning about Westward Expansion and relocation of Native Americans that we listen to the words of native people. We read about the Nez Perce Native Americans from our Social Studies textbook then listened to this partial reading of his speech. These words are a partial reading of a speech attributed to Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce. The full speech was reported to have been delivered to the US government at Lincoln Hall in Washington DC (1879) where he was meeting with lawmakers to sign over their native lands. What did the speech remind you of? How do you think his words from 1879 still resonate today?