Seekers Day 2 — Reading Workshop
/- Intro to Adventures of Spider
- Warm Up [m, desks, wb/journals/notes]—What makes for a good story? <basic timeline, Hero's Journey, characters, setting, specifics>
- Map— <slide, print outs, otg slide, colored pencils>
- Which is West? How do you know? <from looking at map>
- What if you were on the ground in Africa? <slide with sun>
- <print outs in folders>Find Liberia <color blue>. Ghana? <color yellow> Which is further West? East? <label, add your own compass>
- <Journal/Tribal Meeting—Can the setting be a character in the story? Why/How or why/how not?>
- Read Introduction + Waist—note characters, setting + specific descriptions. Discuss + note on table on wb.
- <wkst, wb or tribes?> If this is East Village and this is West Village, please put Anasi in the middle.
- Choose a question: Can setting be a character? Specifically describe a setting or a character.


We’re 99.9% genetically identical. Born in the bellies of stars, gestated in Earth’s waters—only *just* beginning to crawl, gasping, ashore; only *just* beginning to gaze, bleary-eyed, upon the heavens from whence we came.
How far *might* we yet soar…?