Summarise the Story in Less Than Ten Sentences

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Dreamtime Stories

The Aboriginal people believe that the earth and everything in it was made by their ancestral spirits. This is called the Dreamtime or the Dreaming. It was a time when the rivers, mountains, rocks, deserts and plants were made.

The Dreamtime stories are an important part of the Aboriginal culture. These stories tell how the land and animals etc came to be.

Task:

· Read an Aboriginal myth or legend.

· Summarise the story in less than ten sentences.

· Illustrate your summary.

· Don’t forget to list what the story is called and who wrote it.

Story telling is an integral part of the Australian indigenous people. The stories tell how the land came to be shaped and inhabited how to behave

and why; where to find certain foods, etc.