This week I real
the Blackfoot Stories by Grinnell. This story came from the Native American section
of the UN-Textbook. This unit had a variety of stories within it. There were
many single page stories but ended with a five page story. I thought this was a
well put together unit. The variety kept the reading interesting and that made
reading the unit easier. Some of the individual stories were short, about
300-600 words, compared to the average story which is about 1000 words. While I
was reading the section I thought this was great. The shorter the reading the
less time the reading takes. Now when I look back the stories, I am starting to
wonder what was left out of the stories to make them so short. More details
could be added to those stories to help expand the story. I did not think any
of the stories were bad this week. There was not a single story that is my
least favorite. I did however really like the Kut-O-Yis, The Blood Boy story. I
think I have said this before but I like the stories that take up multiple
pages in the unit. I think the extra length helps with the detail and excites
me as a reader. When there are short story after short story, they seem to drag
on and make reading the unit a lot harder. I also like the hero stories.
Kut-O-Yis is just that. He is not your normal hero though. He just goes around
and helps people who are suffering. I did not find anything missing in this
unit. I did find a problem in one of the stories that I informed our teacher on
and she has now fixed it. Overall, I
thought this was another great unit and I do not see any changes that should be
made now.
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Blackfoot Indian Stories
Web Source: UN-Textbook
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