If you didn't receive this handout in class, you can print this page. Click here to get the second handout to print out. At the end of the novel, when Billy views the red fern, he comes to a new understanding of love and himself. Review the Legend Of The Red Fern in the last chapter of the novel.
Legend is the of the oldest forms of literature.
Many cultures have used them, and many of them have common threads. Later in the year, we will see how these common threads compare and contrast to the Greek Culture. See if you can discover what the patterns are for these Native American Legends. Use the links listed below to read a number of other Native American Legends. Now that we have analyzed these legends for common.traits, we are ready to write our own legend.