Question: 3. Summarize Fill out a story map for “The People Could Fly.” Use your completed map to summarize the plot of the folk tale. Compare your summary with that of a classmate.

Hello. You haven't shown which map to fill out, so I just summarized the storyline to which the question refers. I hope it helps.

The tale begins by stating that many people believe that in Africa, in the past, there were people who knew how to do magic and could fly and it was when they were flying that they were captured to be slaves. Then, people started to hide their wings, so as not to be captured, and many became very sick. These people still had magic, but it was safer to stop flying and camouflage yourself in the crowd. However, even then they were captured as slaves, among Africans who could not fly.

The life of a slave was difficult and one day, all who could fly rebelled, attacked their "masters" and fled flying, those who did not fly asked for help to escape, but those who flew could not teach them and told them to find another way to escape.

The "masters" did not want this story to be heard, but the slaves who were imprisoned told their children and this story was passed down from generation to generation.

the purpose of the heading in the passage is to identify who is telling the story.

this excerpt is part of the book sugar changed the world (2010) written by marc aronson and marina budhos. as the book has been written by two people, the heading "marc" indicates that this specific excerpt is being narrated by aronson. in the fragment, marc describes his grandfather's story after hearing it from his cousin. however, there are other excerpts where budhos is the one that tells the story of her family.

aronson and budhos, who are husband and wife in real life, decided to write sugar changed the world when they found out how sugar, which had an important role in slavery and economy, changed their ancestors' lives.

his tongue, i believe, was bloody and hanging out of his mouth.

he looked as if he were hungry.

he has several wolf-like qualities; a gray coat, sharp claws and yellow fangs.

those eyes made me feel, dear reader, like the end was near.

as i reached for a stick, he moved to the other side of the hill.

panting and hungry, he looked at me, a defenseless human and he snarled.

well i said my prayers, however, he simply turned and limped off.