Reading Diary B: British North America

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Turtle and Thunder

• Turtle in need
• "Let me see how you can fight"
• I like how it went from big animals you would expect to be able to protect the turtle, like the deer and bear, to a crowd of small turtles.
• The turtle decided the crowd of turtles will be most helpful to him
• His own crowd
• Crowd unfortunately killed by a stone
• Thunder Bird
• Reasoning behind why turtles stay in white during a thunderstorm
• Could add a female turtle for love story, change the plot around a bit

Coyote's Gifts

• "Powerful in magic"
• "The aurora is the light of Coyote's fire, shining through the ice, or the reflection of it cast by the ice."
• Word choice
• Coyote having the ability to create parts of the world
• Made different tribes to speak different languages
• Shape shift into a piece of wood
• Another story providing interesting reasoning for things

Wolverene and Rock

• "I can't walk, but I can roll."
• Rock is personified
• Funny story, I like the way the author wrote the story.
• I would probably expand on the story if I retold it 
• Add more background info

"Coyote Tule Lake"
Source: Wikimedia Commons