Summer Reading
Forms
Vocabulary
Characters
Misc.
100

Social organization marked by the father being the head of the family or clan

Patriarchy

100

"The Tortoise and the Hare"

Fable

100

A group of stories centered around a single character.

Story Cycle

100

This is who Sinbad tells his stories to.

Hinbad

100

This is the first step in The Hero's Journey

The Call to Adventure

200

Odysseus's greatest weakness.

Pride

200

The Nighway

Chant

200

Quick and light in motion, agile

Nimble

200

This means to give something human traits or characteristics. 

Anthropomorphize

200

A recurring element, idea, or pattern in a work.

Motif
300

What was Noah's main tool in 'bridging the race gap'?

Language

300

Born a Crime

Memoir

300

In "The Three Despotic Chiefs" they used this for food storage.

Calabashes

300

Echo was cursed by this goddess.

Juno

300

Sinbad the Sailor was later included in this longer work.

One Thousand and One Nights

400

This is an informal grocery store in South Africa

Spaza Shop

400

"Turtle Island"

Origin Story

400

Scheherazade ended each story on a what?

Cliffhanger

400

Odysseus is held captive by this goddess.

Calypso

400

This is Latin for "in the middle of things"

In medias res

500

Xenia means this in Greek.

Guest-friendship

500

The Odyssey

Epic Poem 

500

This is the stories, beliefs, and cultural knowledge passed down by talking to one another through generations.

The Oral Tradition

500

The Chief who could not decide where to land on shore was this word.

Irresolute

500

Word meaning 'relation to the origins, causes, or caustation of something'

Ontological 

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