When the anthropologist Archie Phinney recorded his people's animal stories in writing, he found that their spirit had been lost. He said, "When I read my stories mechanically I find only the cold corpse." View the video of storyteller Terry Tafoya's performance of "Coyote's Eyes." What would be lost if the performance were transferred on to the printed page?

Review the list of Words to Know. On your paper, write the vocabulary word that is a synonym of each word below. Then write a sentence containing the vocabulary word.

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The singer in "Hunting Song" attempts to draw a deer to himself. Compose your own hunting song in which you lure what you most desire to yourself.

On your paper, write the vocabulary word that best completes each analogy.

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In biological terms, what do you think was the most significant event in the history of life? Explain your answer.

Look over the chart you made in your QREADER'S NOTEBOOK as you read this myth. What caused various things in the world to come into being? Discuss the cause and effect you found most interesting.

In an alternate universe, although proteins are still constructed of combinations of 20 different amino acids, DNA is constructed of six different nucleotides, not four as on Earth. Would you expect organisms in this universe to have more precise genetic instructions or more different genes than life on Earth? Would you expect the length of a typical gene to be the same, shorter, or longer than that of a typical gene on Earth?

What is sex linkage? In mammals, which sex would be most likely to show recessive sex-linked traits?

Folk tales often serve to teach or explain. In your view, what does "Coyote and the Buffalo" teach or explain? Refer to the chart you made in your

How would you characterize Momaday's relationship with his grandmother?

Review the cluster diagram you created in your WREADER'S NOTEBOOK. In your own words, tell what you learned about the Hopi Way.

Think back over the selections in Part 2 of this unit. What things was each author encountering for the first time? What similarities and differences between the different encounters do you notice? Do any of the selections seem unrelated to the title "First Encounters"? Get together with a partner to discuss these questions, and jot down your conclusions.

Write a summary of this selection for someone who has not read it and wants to know what Equiano's experience was like.

From the following list: comply, placate, ingratiate, inundate, lament, beseech, infirmity, scoff, embody, cauterize, write the vocabulary word that is the closest in meaning to the italicized word or phrase in the sentence. Starvation caused i̲l̲l̲n̲e̲s̲s̲ among many of the conquistadors.