Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Week 10, Reading Diary: Tejas Legends

Story source: When the Storm God Rides: Tejas and Other Indian Legends retold by Florence Stratton and illustrated by Berniece Burrough (1936).

When the Storm God Rises-Of course I would like a story that involves a storm god. This story is about how the islands off the coast of Texas in the Gulf of Mexico came about. I enjoyed that it was the god deciding to save some birds from being hunted by the bad Indians. He caused a flood to drive away the Indians. As the storm waters receded, it deposited sand and mud into the gulf and created islands that became the birds new home and the Indians could no longer reach them.

The Plant that Grows in Trees- This is a cute story of how mistletoe came to grow in trees. The Thunderbird really enjoyed the berries of the mistletoe. So to protect the plant from being crushed by forest creatures, he planted the mistletoe in the trees.

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