The Golden Flower: A Taino myth (Wonders Unit 6 Week 1)

Our story is a myth. What is a myth?

• A myth is a true story.

• A myth is an old story that tells about how something came to be. It is fiction.

• A myth has a character with a problem that needs to be solved.

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What does the little boy find floating by?

• A feather

• A coin

• A seed

• He doesn't find anything

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What does the little boy do with the seeds that he finds?

• He lets them go into the wind.

• He plants the seeds on the mountaintop.

• He forgets about them.

• He sells them.

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What grows from the golden flower?

• A large pumpkin.

• Strawberries.

• Nothing. Only the large flower grows.

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When the villagers listen to the pumpkin, they hear a 'murmuring' sound coming from inside. What does murmuring mean?

• A loud sound.

• A clear sound. They knew exactly what was inside.

• A low sound that they could not quite make out

• It means there was no sound.

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Why do the two men want the pumpkin?

• They think that once they have it they will become powerful.

• They want to sell it.

• They want to take it home to make pumpkin pie.

• They want to plant more pumpkins.

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The two men end up fighting over the pumpkin and it gets away from them and breaks on a sharp rock. What is inside?

• Seeds. Lots and lots of seeds.

• Nothing. It was hollow inside.

• Water and sea life.

• Candy.

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What happens to the home of the villagers once the water comes rushing out of the pumpkin?

• Not much changes.

• Water fills to where the plants start and creates and island.

• Their homes all get flooded and wet.

• The water spreads out and creates a small lake.

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What do the villagers gain from all of this water?

• They don't gain anything.

• They gain fresh water to drink from, water to use for their crops, and fish to eat.

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How do we know the story is fake? Click on all that apply.

• There is no way a pumpkin can hold an ocean's worth of water AND animals.

• The seed would not have been able to grow with no water.

• The people could not have lived with no water.