Name: _____________________  Class A  B  C   #___

Ta-Na-E-Ka  (Pages 54-66)

  1. The purpose of Ta-Na-E-Ka was to _____________________________________ _________________________________________________________________.
  2. At the beginning of the story, Mary viewed her Kaw heritage as ____________ ___________________________________________________________.
  3. Ta-Na-E-Ka had changed in several ways from grandfathers day to when Mary did it. Some of those differences were that _________________________________, ________________________________ and ______________________________.
  4. Ernie was a ______________________________________.  He helped Mary by providing her with ____________________________________________.
  5. When grandfather learned how Mary survived her Ta-Na-E-Ka, he tells her she should have _________________________________________ but she _______ ________________________________________________________________.
  6. Mary's opinion of Ta-Na-E-Ka change from before and after she experienced it in that she __________________________________________________________.   Her Ta-Na-E-Ka taught her that ______________________________________.
  7. When Ernie, a non Kaw, says that Ta-Na-E-Ka is silly, Mary got _____.  I think she responded that way because ________________________________________.
  8. What is the RESOLUTION of this story and what does it tell us about Mary's character? ______________________________________________________
  9. THEME  I think that the theme of this story, which is the lesson about life which Mary learns, is that ________________________________________________.
  10. My culture does / does not have a rite of passage from childhood to adulthood.  It is called ____________________________.