Native America: Understanding the Past through Things

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 06.04.08

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. What is a Myth?
  4. Religion and Human Sacrifice
  5. Writing and Literature
  6. Popol Vuh
  7. Brief Look at Inca Civilization 1200-1534 A.D.
  8. Inca Wealth
  9. Inca Human Sacrifice
  10. Inca Writing System—Khipu—Destruction and Impact on Literature
  11. Mythology of the Inca—Common Features
  12. Inca Myth Choice #One—"The Rod of Gold"
  13. Inca Myth Choice #Two—"The Boy Who Rose to the Sky"
  14. Inca Myth Choice #3—"Why the Fox Has a Huge Mouth"
  15. Inca Myth Choice #4—"The Mouse Husband"
  16. Other Tools Used in This Unit
  17. Fun Notes/Activities on This Unit
  18. Classroom Activities
  19. Pennsylvania Academic Standards
  20. Works Cited and Resources for Teachers
  21. Resources for Students
  22. Appendix A

Mythology of the Inca and Maya

Janelle A. Price

Published September 2006

Tools for this Unit:

Works Cited and Resources for Teachers

Bierhorst, John. The Mythology of South America. New York: Morrow and Co., Inc.:

1988.

Bishop, Wendy. Teaching Lives: Essays and Stories. Logan: Utah State University

Press, 1997.

Campbell, Joseph. The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Princeton: Princeton University

Press, 1971.

Canadian Museum of Civilizations Co. Cosmology and Religion. 26 March 2004.

27 July 2006. http://www.civilization.ca/civil/maya/mmc03eng.html>.

Elbow, Peter. Writing Without Teachers. 2nd ed. New York, Oxford University Press,

1998.

Joseph Campbell and The Power of Myth with Bill Moyers: The Hero's Adventure.

VHS. Mystic Fire Video, 1988.

Joseph Campbell and The Power of Myth with Bill Moyers: The First Storytellers.

VHS. Mystic Fire Video, 1988.

Mann, Charles C. 1491. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.

McEwan, Colin and Van DeGuchte, Maarten. "Ancestral Time and Sacred Space in Inca

State Ritual." The Ancient Americas: Art From Sacred Landscapes. Chicago:

Art Institute of Chicago, 1992.

Miller, Mary. Classroom notes from July 3 through July 28, 2006.

Miller, Mary and Martin, Simon. Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya. New York:

Thames and Hudson, 2004.

Murtagh, Lindsey. "Common Elements in Creation Myths." 25 June 2006,

http://www.cswilliams.edu/~lindsey/myths/myths_15.html.

Murra, John V. "Cloth and Its Function in the Inca State." American Anthropologist.

Vol. 64, 1962.

Clark, Liesl. The Lost Empire. Nova. Nov. 2000; 27 June 2006. http://www.pbs.org/

wgbh/nova/perv/worlds/>.

Tedlock, Dennis. Popol Vuh: The Definitive Edition of the Mayan Book of the Dawn of

Life and the Glories of Gods and Kings. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996.

Vogler, Christopher. The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers. 2nd ed.

Studio City: Michael Wiese Productions, 1998.

Comments:

Hayden O'rourke

February 28, 2019 at 3:53 am

Inca Children at Work and Play

Dear Yale National Initiative, I wanted to thank you for creating a great lesson on having students use picture analysis skills and background knowledge of children for this activity. I really think the requirements and assessment anchors are well thought out and have a clear goal in the end. My only suggestion is if there is a way to make the images bigger?

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