The way to Rainy Mountain
10.4.1 Journal: Respond to the Reading Journal
English III (2013) (S2453406) Sierra Turner
Points possible: 20 Date: ____________
This is your journal activity. Complete the prewriting steps below before moving on to the journal response.
Read and Paraphrase
Read the text below from The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday:
Great green and yellow grasshoppers are everywhere in the tall grass, popping up like corn to sting the flesh, and tortoises crawl about on the red earth, going nowhere in plenty of time. Loneliness is an aspect of the land. All things in the plain are isolated; there is no confusion of objects in the eye, but one hill or one tree or one man. To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion. Your imagination comes to life, and this, you think, is where Creation was begun.(The Way to Rainy Mountain, "Introduction," p. 5) In your own words, briefly explain what the narrator is seeing and feeling: The narrator is feeling a sense of wonder. Feeling the warmth of the sun, while watching the grasshoppers and tortoises move around the grass, it seems to make him wonder and imagine that this is where creation started.
Mark the Text
Now mark some of the descriptive phrases and adjectives Momaday uses to describe the setting. Pay attention to color words and what those colors do to Momaday's landscape. Also, think about how Momaday feels about his setting as you read.
From The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday:
Great green and yellow grasshoppers are everywhere in the tall grass, popping up like corn to sting the flesh, and tortoises crawl about on the red earth, going nowhere in plenty of time. Loneliness is an aspect of the land. All things in the plain are isolated; there is no confusion of objects in the eye, but one hill or one tree or one man. To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of
English III (2013) (S2453406) Sierra Turner
Points possible: 20 Date: ____________
This is your journal activity. Complete the prewriting steps below before moving on to the journal response.
Read and Paraphrase
Read the text below from The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday:
Great green and yellow grasshoppers are everywhere in the tall grass, popping up like corn to sting the flesh, and tortoises crawl about on the red earth, going nowhere in plenty of time. Loneliness is an aspect of the land. All things in the plain are isolated; there is no confusion of objects in the eye, but one hill or one tree or one man. To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion. Your imagination comes to life, and this, you think, is where Creation was begun.(The Way to Rainy Mountain, "Introduction," p. 5) In your own words, briefly explain what the narrator is seeing and feeling: The narrator is feeling a sense of wonder. Feeling the warmth of the sun, while watching the grasshoppers and tortoises move around the grass, it seems to make him wonder and imagine that this is where creation started.
Mark the Text
Now mark some of the descriptive phrases and adjectives Momaday uses to describe the setting. Pay attention to color words and what those colors do to Momaday's landscape. Also, think about how Momaday feels about his setting as you read.
From The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday:
Great green and yellow grasshoppers are everywhere in the tall grass, popping up like corn to sting the flesh, and tortoises crawl about on the red earth, going nowhere in plenty of time. Loneliness is an aspect of the land. All things in the plain are isolated; there is no confusion of objects in the eye, but one hill or one tree or one man. To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of