English 11 Honors (Period 5): 03.11

At the beginning of class today, we read the Christian creation story from Genesis in The Bible. After reading the version of this story from the King James Bible, we looked at a more modern translation from the New International Version of The Bible to compare the use of language and to clear up some understandings of word meaning.

Everyone then had time to complete the Incan creation story note sheet and a creation story note sheet for the creation story from Genesis.

Following this, everyone had about 15 minutes to work on completing the creation story comparison chart that we have been working on in class. We took some time to discuss some of the connections that were more difficult for people to make. Some tips in making these connections were:

- how the world is created (usually something-from-nothing or something-from-chaos).
- how the gods make people and other creatures.
- the role that people are given in the world by the gods / people's relationship to other animals
- the relationship that people have to their gods
- religious practices required/recommended by the gods

We will continue to work on this comparison chart.

Handouts:

Genesis creation story

Creation story note sheet
Creation story note sheet instructions

Creation story comparison chart
The comparison chart prints in the 11x17 size.
Mr. Collins has extra copies available for those in need.

Homework:

We will have a quiz over all of the creation stories next Tuesday.
Review your creation story note sheets in preparation.

Complete all creation story note sheets.

Creation stories read so far:

Genesis

Incan

Navajo

Aztec

Mayan

Yoruba