In American Literature, we studied the mythology of Native American Cultures, including "The World on a Turtle's Back" by the Iroquois, and Coyote Stories from the Okanogan tribes. We learned about traits of creation myths, the use of archetypes, such as the Trickster, and techniques such as anthropomorphism.

To display what we learned, we wrote and produced our own Original Creation Myths to explain the existence of at least one thing. We had to include at least one trickster character and an anthropomorphic character.

For my myth, I chose to write about the creation of the moon and stars. It was about a mother and kids who were killed by their father/husband. They were collected by the godmother and turned into moon and stars to represent the nighttime and always be remembered at the end of the day. This was the first real representation of time at night.

The visual creative design for my myth was a stop motion animation. I moved the characters and objects slightly on every slide to create the effect that they were moving. I created a stop motion animation on google slides and edited it on iMovie. I added calm music in the background and even created my own characters for the story. I also added small details to represent big parts of the story. Cartoon graphics were used to emphasize certain parts of the story. Voiceover was used to tell the story while the stop motion was presenting.

The stop motion process was challenging at some parts, but the overall product was pretty good and detailed.