Freshmen: Today we began a study of free verse poetry. Your homework is to read for 20 minutes; be sure to bring your book to school on Sunday.
Sophomores: Today our focus was on the creation myths you brought to class today. Please post a response to the following prompt, and in your response, please address what another student has said. Your response should be a paragraph or so, and at the end, please sign your name and period. Prompt: Creation myths from a number of diverse cultures share the same elements. What do these common elements, and the fact that many creation myths have similar elements, reveal about the human race? We will begin Life of Pi on Thursday.
Sophomore Honors: Today our focus was on an introduction to The Tao te Ching. You should finish reading that introduction for our next class period. Bring your creation myths as well. We will begin Life of Pi on Thursday, so you may want to start reading a chapter from Foster's text that correspond to it before we begin.
CNF: Today we focused on decision-making and biases associated with various decision-making processes.
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I think that they reveal that in the end we are all equal, have equal hopes, make equal decisions, and ask equal Questions. For example, most humans, regardless of their culture, nation, or lifestyle, expressed and explained the creation with a divine creature. This shows the ancient need for something above the earthly and explainable context of life. Or for example the choice that was presented in a lot of myths. Apparently a bit of self-participation is needed all around the globe. However, the lifestyle of certain tribes/nations/cultures is portrayed differently most of the time. They always express the essential dependency(Dinka: Cow vs. What/Babylonian: irrigation and water flow)of the certain culture. So in the end the essential characteristics always stay the same, but the culture-specific specialties are also implemented.
Carl B. period 8
Today, when reading our creation myth stories in our groups. All of the stories we shared had some or something in common. Whether it was a creator or task. A element was the same one way or another. I think in some cases, all myths reveal that we all share the idea of a higher power, which gives us hope. Showing, how truly equal we are as people, like Carl said. Hope gives us the ability that something beyond life or existence in every culture or religion is real. By making myths we give ourselves the opportunity to share our beliefs with others. The people we share them with have the choice to believe or make them their own.
Mayree Ellis period 8
Today as I read my creation myth and listened to others in my group I realized numerous similarities that ervery or just some share.Still all storys shared something in common.one thing that all storys shared was a creator and a creation.One thing that allot but not all storys shared was a animal spirit or being that helped progress the story.one thing I found interesting was some had humans apart of nature and others protectors or outcasts against it.period 8 Quinn.A.M.R
With almost all creation stories I found that they all have things in common whether they are from origin of the Middle East to the tropical islands. They all start with a creator, someone or something that creates the world or the people of that area. In many cases I found that the creator often gives the people he created a choice, they have a good or a bad. Wheather the people choose the good or the bad depends on the creation story it's self. This to me revels that as humans we all have a choice, we can make good decisions or bad ones but in the end it is up to us as humans to make that choice not a higher power then us ourselves.
Abi Garside
Period 8
Today after reading the creation myths my group brought, I noticed a few things in common between them. What creation myths reveal, I think, is that a higher power gives mankind a source of hope by knowing a Greater Being is watching over us and has a plan. Like Abi said, a lot of the myths discuss the Creator giving his people a choice, such as the cow or the what in the Dinka myth. Acknowledging the similarities found in so many of the myths, I think diffusion played a key role in the spread of the basic Creation myth foundation.
Maggie L.
Period 8
Humans throughout history have shown examples of similarities in behavior and culture. Just like animals, humans in very different regions act similar. Take for example the wolf. Wolves regardless of geographic location, exhibit the same or similar traits; hunting in packs, possessing hierarchical packs, etc. Although there is no current study of human behavior that has been subjected to theory, there is still significant support to this hypothesis of all humans share similar behavioral and physiological traits. In class today, we explored the creation myths of different cultures. Many cultures had very similar attributes to their stories that suggest its human behavior to portray divinity. The other example, which supports this more so than the similarities of creation myths, is the fact that so many different cultures have creation stories. This shows on some level that it is human behavior to explain the unknown. All these myths and stories, explain a lot about humanity. We all want a purpose beyond survival, and we all want to understand the universe in which we inhabit.
Andrew Campbell Period 8
Even with all the different cultures in out world their creation myths have common similarities in each other. This tells us how all humans are similar because we create these stories so we can believe in something beyond our own lives. We incorporate this idea into every myth with ideas of afterlife. I agree with Carl and Andrew on how we want something more than our life and our similarities with each other.
Nathan Howard
period 8
Today , we talked about creation myths and there similarities. When listening to my group tell there myths I relized that they had some thing in common like, Talking to a creator, and men befor women. I think talking to a creator shows that you have hope in something and or belive in it. Like Quin A.M.R said not a lot of stories talked about animal sprits but in mine it says that we are made from the earth. I think it reveals about humans that we are one with Earth and the creator.
Gabriel G.
Period 8
One thing that I have noticed from all of these creation myths, everyone single one. No matter where it came from. Is the earth was nothing then someone or something came and made us. In mine for example there were spirits who were lonely, and made us. They didn't want us to know them so they morphed into trees and nature in general. In sam's from what I heard we were made from barren soil. Then a chameleon cam a long and made sure were didn't die. I personally like all these creation myths. I think that they are very interesting. You can 100% tell the similarities between them and it is cool how they all diffused and sort of all come together.
After reading different creation myths from my group and doing the activity of finding similarities i found it to be much easier than i thought it would to find these similarities. I found that many, if not all, had a creator in their myth. I believe that all these different religions from different part of the world all had a creator because they like the idea of a high power bigger than ourselves. To know that our life has a purpose and that there is hope for achieving greatness or close to greatness, as did their creator did. As Maggie said, it is very likely that diffusion brought much of those similarities being tweaked a bit for the different places and times the myth was told.
Maile Cutter
Period 8
I think the creation stories having similar elements means that each culture has a similar view on how life was created. Like Mayree said, almost every creation story seems to have some type of creator that gives us hope. I think this shows that most people believe that there is a higher power and a life after death. The reason people want to believe in a higher power is because they want to believe there is a greater world, and I think this gives hope. Hope is very important, because it is what keeps people from giving up on life. Even though each creation story has very similar elements I find that each story has it's own distinct features that makes it different from other creation stories. In the end culture I still think most religions have the same outlook on how the world and it's creatures came to be.
Suzie S.
Period 8
My group and I were talking about the similarities between our myths. I found that every story starts with some kind idea of a creator or a higher power, like Mayree said. We all want to find out how we started. That's why we always begin with someone who is perfect and has been here since the beginning of time. I think the human race is always hoping and believing there is more after life on earth. This might be the reason myths across cultures all have the same idea of a higher power, because it helps us think there is more out there.
Jonathan Padilla
Period 8
In the creation myths that we read in class there always seemed to be a similar elements. Whether it was one deity or several, there always seemed to be one. I think what this says about us humans as a race, is that we all want believe there is a higher power than us. As Andrew said, humans are like animals in that we all can have something in common even if we are nowhere near each other.
Sam Housinger Period 8
The other day we read a few creation myths out loud to one another. As we were reading, I realized that many of the stories had some, or multiple common traits. They are similar whether they are Muslim or Hawaiian. Most start with a creator, or whoever builds the land. The creator is head of everything, and they control the universe. The creator usually puts people or animals onto the land, where they live and go by "God's" rules. Most people who are put onto the earth usually have a choice or decision to make; whether it is between two animals, or to go against God's will. Sometimes the people choose the wrong thing, and are sent away to a horrible place, where they don't want to be. These similar elements show that the human race has a choice in life; good or bad. People have a choice to make, and depending on what you choose it'll take you a direction. We can make good or bad decisions, but whatever we desire, it is up to us to choose the correct answer (for ourselves or others).
Kathleen Wilkerson
Period 8
I think the fact that a lot of creation myths shows us that we are all the same in spirit. We may look different or have different religious beliefs, but we all have the same hopes and ideas deep down. I agree with Nathan. We all want a hope of something bigger than what we can see and it has brought us together for centuries.
Alea B period 8
I believe that the myths shows that many humans find rapture in the same way. Most myths begin with a creator or creators who either create the earth or create the first humans. In some instances however the earth and humans were already there but in some place not fully aware of the world. The humans are either given a test or deceived in some way. In some cultures humans fail the test and are exiled or in the case of the Dinkas they pass the test.
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