Motifs

Agenda:

• What is a motif? 
• Watch the video: http://study.com/academy/lesson/motif-in-literature-definition-examples-quiz.html
• Create a list of motifs that you have seen in a book or a TV series that you have watched.
• Create a list of motifs that you have seen in O Pioneers!
• Reading: "Pyramis and Thisbe" myth reading
• http://cmes.arizona.edu/sites/cmes.arizona.edu/files/The%20Love%20Story%20of%20Pyramus%20and%20Thisbe.pdf
• Why does Cather use the mulberry allusion to refer to this text?
• What do you think will happen in the text?

Homework:

• Finish reading part IV w/ reading questions