1. to introduce a new genre - folklore.
   
   
2. to encourage responses to reading using "Say Something"
   
   
3. to reinforce the use of Before reading strategies:
   
   a) activating prior knowledge and
   
   b) predicting
   
   
4. to develop an appreciation of the culture and belief systems of others.

1. Explains the concept of folklore:
   
   Before the beginning of recorded fume, people told stories to speculate about their beginnings. The tales were told to all and passed f am generation to generation by word of mouth. Families, young and old, gathered to hear the storyteller, much as we as a family gather around the television set. Eventually the stories were collected and written down.
   
   The stories are about heroic deeds or the customs or traditions of a culture. Because the tales are usually not set in any particular time or place, they are timeless. They may or may not have really happened and take on a profound quality. They became what we call Folklore - stories of the folk, the people.
   
   
2. Introduces the story for the session:
   
   Today we are going to look at one kind of folklore - a legend. A legend is a kind of folklore. Legends are usually stories told from generation to generation about mankind's connection to nature.
   
   Today's story is a Native American legend called Buffalo Woman. There are many versions of this story told by different aboriginal peoples of North America. This is one version by Paul Gable.
   
   
3. Distributes the books and guides the prereading, using the same Before
   Reading technique introduced-in Session One (Self-Questioning), by having
   participants:
   
   Look at the cover. What does it make you think of? Look at the inside cover. The person is covered with skins. Why? Look at the second Bile page. Now does it make you feel?
   

NOTE: The illustrations and the resulting responses may motivate participants to read the background information provided by the author in the preface, which explains the significance of the buffalo woman to the tribes of the Great Plains. You may wish to draw attention to the preface if participants are not spontaneously drawn to it.

1. Directs participants and volunteers to read the story in unison, stopping every few pages to comment upon events and "Say Something". (If necessary, remind participants to mark vocabulary they are unsure of and to read on. Suggests they discuss them at the very end, unless knowing the word meaning is absolutely imperative to understanding the story.)

1. Conducts an open discussion, inviting participants to share their responses to both the story and the illustrations and
   
   
2. Draws attention to how, in the closing segment, the storyteller makes connections between the legend and the culture and beliefs of the people.