A tale about bear and rabbit, and who was the trickster in this story. ( )

Hare convinces lazy Bear to share his land for growing crops that will feed Hare's hungry family. Bear can choose his share of the harvest - tops or bottoms. Clever Hare chooses crops that make the most of his labor.

A hungry rabbit tricks the sleepy bear to sharing the harvest of the garden with him, and bear chooses his half as "tops"which ends up being the parts of the plants that are thrown away. They decide to trade halves, and the Hare's again trick by planting things where the only good parts are the tops and the bottoms the bear gets are the roots of the broccoli and others. When bear complains, Hare offers to give tops and bottoms from next planting. Bear sleeps and Hare works, then after harvest he wakes Bear up to show him that Hare has gotten the middles, which in a corn harvest are the best part. Bear, furious, decides that the only way to get a fair deal is to do him own work, and never sleeps through harvest again.

This is a story out of our reading basal. I enjoyed the humor in this tale, however I am not sure how much my students got some of the humor. I don't know if they caught (were able to predict) what the Hare was doing each harvest to trick the brear.

This folktale is hilarious as it tell the story of a lazy bear and a trickster/smart rabbit. The Rabbit ends up getting all the good crops as the bear sleeps through the planting. Every time he awakes to get his share if the crops, they aren't what he likes, so he ask the rabbit to plant more crops in different spaces. Well the bears gets fed up and decides to do his own work and get the benefit of doing it himself.