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Unraveling Trickster Claims Through Yoga Tree Pose Practice

Understand trickster characters in literature while practicing yoga tree pose, analyzing their actions, and deciphering their motivations. Explore vocabulary, meanings, and connections to myths and cultures. Enhance character analysis skills with engaging activities.

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Unraveling Trickster Claims Through Yoga Tree Pose Practice

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  1. Tree Pose Yoga Vocab: pronunciations and context Review and note:trickster defs Making Claims / Finding Evidence: Trickster Think Sheet AA Vocabulary 26 MDGR:due Monday Trickster Think Sheet: due Thursday(end of period) February 27 TOPIC:Trickster Claims LEVEL:Drawing Conclusions

  2. Tuesday, we . . . • C-noted Coyote Terms • Analyzed Brer Rabbit Trickster • Began Trickster Think Sheet

  3. Today’s Objectives • CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.3Analyze the impact of the author’s choices regarding how to develop characters. • CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.4Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on characterization. • CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.2Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text.

  4. Magical thinking Connection to nature • Belief in spiritPower of StoryOral Tradition • Myth:a religious and cultural story that explains why things are the way they are. • Symbol: an image that stands for an idea. • Theme: the message or philosophy in a story. • Trickster tales: folk tales that feature an animal or human character who engages in deceit, violence, and magic; often mythic, explaining features of the world. • Trickster: the character in a trickster tale who engages in the deceit, violence, and magic. • Culture hero— a character who is famous for his contributions to the “culture” (art, history, identity) of a society. • Clever deceiver— yeah, that. • Numskull— one who creates problems not out of malice but out of ignorance and stupidity.

  5. Trickster Think Sheet • Decide which character you will analyze: Thomas or Arnold Joseph. • Read “Previous Definitions” on your Trickster Think Sheet. • Mark (highlight / underline) the parts of each definition that you will apply to the character you’ve chosen. • Compose (write) a working definition that integrates (merges) the ideas you’ve marked.

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