Week 11 Reading notes B Southwestern and California legends


Coyote


Today's stories focused a lot on the coyote. I feel like in the past when I've read coyote stories, the coyote is always swift and cunning. However, in these stories, he's pretty dumb. He gets tricked by almost all the other animals and always ends up as the loser. They all must have really hated coyotes lol. I don't have much to write about, I liked yesterday's creation story much more.

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