Reading Diary B: Native American Fairytales

Wigwam

• I really like how all of these stories are in the frame tale of the storyteller Iagoo.  It really gives a sense of connectivity through all the stories and adds to the experience.
• Weren’t the homes called wigwams in the previous section?  Now they are teepees?  Are both correct or is that just a consistency error?
• "No, no!" she said. "You must not harm him. See how friendly he is, and not a bit afraid. There is game enough in the forest for a brave boy's bow and arrow. Why should he spend his strength on a weak little mouse?"  I was a little surprised by this, but it was a pleasant surprise
• The mouse was once great.  That’s really interesting.
• The Dormouse sounds very important
• Iagoo is a really interesting character.  The children seem to be very attached to him.
• “Wa-bun, the East Wind, was the one who brought the news”
• I wonder why the coyote is always mentioned with “the prairie wolf” attached afterwards.
• “Except for the beautiful green pines, all the world was white—a dazzling, silent world in which there was no musical murmur of waters and no song of birds.” What beautiful and vivid imagery.
• “The boy used to dream about it and wonder what could be done. His father could do anything; some men said he was a Manito. Perhaps he could find some way to bring 
• Summer to the earth. That would be the greatest thing of all.”  Sound like he not only wants to live up to his father’s image, but like he also has great aspirations.  

Native American Fairy Tales unit