ANCIENT STORIES   
How is the language in this text similar to and/or different from the language you use in everyday conversation?
  
A: It is different from the language we use in everyday conversation is the talking animals. It can be similar in people discussing different ways to solve a problem or help someone when all the animals wanted to help the woman that fell from the sky. 

Because it began as an oral story, "Earth on Turtle's Back" can be found in multiple text versions.  How important is it for a story to be repeated word for word?  Is meaning embellished, distorted, lost, or enhanced in the retelling?

A: It is important for a story to be repeated word for word because then it wouldn't be the original vision the first author had and by leaving something that you think is so small and doesn't matter can change the whole story altogether. No it is not in the retelling

[BONUS] Find your own early (pre-writing/1492) American myth and compare it to "Earth on Turtle's Back"-- come to class Thursday prepared to discuss
 
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A Myth from the Alabama Tribe retold by S.E. Schlosser is the American myth i choose to discuss

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