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Early American Literature
Lesson 1
The world on the turtle's back
Purpose:
the woman was pregnant, and the husbad was distracted finding some food to his wife
in the beginning there was no world, no land, no men, only a woman and a husband in the sky and they was a gods
the woman decided that she wanted some bark from the great tree, but that they don´t know is the tree have a empty space so she tried to have the roots and she fells down.
Elements
The world on the turtle´s back is a myth about the cration of the world
this myth try to explain the cration and how the earth started to grow up and how a turtle's back is the root of this
the people have stories about creation. These tales explain how they came to be and how they ended up in their homeland.
vocabulary
delicacies
frantically
clod
quiver
Lesson 2
Balboa
Purposes
Balboa was a bad man who had to pay for his crimes, and he felt very bad about it.
He was finally publicly executed for what he did in the past
-Balboa goes up a montain in search of the South sea. - He then sees his dog and esperiences flashback.
-After flashback he discoverds the South Sea and names it for Spain.
-A flashback foward the happends about Balboa going back to Spain and eventually gets tried for treason for his past actions/crimes.
-He gets publicly executed.
Was a prideful, violent, ambitious, and callous man that killed people without remorse.
Elements
The theme of the history is arrogance and how being overly ambitious can result in one´s downfall.
Balboa uses third person omniscient point of view since the author uses "he", "his", "her", and "it".
Tone is the author´s attitude towards the topic.
Authors use the tone to help further develop the theme.
VOCABULARY
Fearsome
Brave
Discovery
South sea
loved
Spaniards
Lesson 3
Informational Text
Purposes
to explain or describe a situation or process
to analyze a situation by explaining causes and effects
to narrate a sequence of events
Elements
includes articles, essays, and reference materials
Provides Factual Information, or evidence that you can prove.
may include primary source material for a particular purpose.
Primary source is the one we get from the people or person who had the main experience
The primary source material may also provide insight into the writer’s purpose.
VOCABULARY
straits
conquistador
flotilla
posse
expedition
interminable
unimpeded
"La Relación" - Text análisis
Main idea
Cabeza devaca (the leader of the expedition) takes people and started a expedition during winter and they founded the indians and they became medicine-men
Historical Background
The Spanish explorer Cabeza de Vaca was born in Jerez de la Frontera into a family that took the title Cabeza de Vaca, "head of a cow," from his mother's side of the family. In 1212, one of her ancestors, a shepherd named Martín Alhaja, had helped the Spanish Christians win an important battle against the Moors by marking an unguarded mountain pass with a cow skull
Theme
The theme of the story is adventure, and as Cabeza de Vaca he was a Spanish conqueror who explored the southern coast of North America and later became a slave
Author's purpose
At this point in the account, Narváez´s barge has abandoned the rest, and Cabeza the Vaca´s barge has joined one commanded by two other officers. The next three chapters describe the shipwreck of Cabeza de Vaca´s barge on Galveston Islan and the crew´s encounter with the Karankawa Indians who lived there.
