6.2.5LA


 * Grade: 6 Unit: 2 Week: 5 Content:ELA Dates: 10/29-11/2**


 * Theme: What do myths, legends, and tales reveal about world cultures?**


 * Essential Questions**
 * **How does the origin of my family help me to understand the similarities and differences to other cultures through the study of folklore?**


 * Focus Standards**
 * RL.6.2 Determine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.
 * RL.6.7 Compare the experience of reading a story to viewing a live version of the text.
 * W.6.2a Organize ideas using comparison/contrast.
 * L.6.2 Demonstrate command of the conventions of punctuation.
 * L.6.4a Use context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.
 * L.6.6 Gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.


 * Ongoing Standards**
 * L.6.4b Use common, grade-appropriate Greek or Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word (e.g., audience,
 * L.6.4 Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 6 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
 * RL.6.3 Describe how a particular story’s or drama’s plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution.
 * RL.6.9 Compare and contrast texts in different forms or genres (e.g., stories and poems; historical novels and fantasy stories) in terms of their approaches to similar themes and topics.
 * SL.6.1 Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 6 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
 * W.6.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
 * W.6.7 Conduct short research projects to answer a question, drawing on several sources and refocusing the inquiry when appropriate.


 * Objectives**
 * TLW determine the characteristics of folk tales.
 * TLW practice summarizing short tales
 * TLW will use commas correctly after introductory phrases in sentences they write.
 * TLW identify examples of imagery and figurative language.


 * Assessment**
 * Product**
 * Students will complete a chart that lists the qualities, stylistic elements, and lessons found in “The Crane Maiden” (HMU6, pages 748-753) and “Aunty Misery” (HMU6, pages 754-757) and write a paragraph that encompasses each.
 * Students will complete a sentence composing activity comprised of jumbled sentences from one of the folk tales that students must arrange in a logical order.
 * Students will work in groups to produce a brief pantomime of one of the two folk tales.


 * Key Questions (match Standard)**
 * Why were folk tales created?
 * What are the characteristics of a folk tale?
 * What is the difference between a folk tale and a tall tale?
 * What are some lessons folk tales impart?


 * Observable Student Behaviors (Performance)**
 * Students will summarize informational text.
 * Students will work cooperatively in groups.
 * Students will complete all assigned charts, lists, and graphic organizers.

Folk tale Imagery Summary Syntax ||
 * Vocabulary**
 * **ELA** ||
 * Figurative language


 * Suggested Activities**
 * Read “The Crane Maiden” (HMU6, pages 748-753) and “Aunty Misery” (HMU6, pages 754-757). Complete a chart that lists the qualities, stylistic elements, and lessons found in each.
 * Write a paragraph that discusses the qualities, stylistic elements, and lessons found in either “The Crane Maiden” or “Aunty Misery.”
 * Jumble the sentences from a passage from either “The Crane Maiden” or “Aunty Misery” and have students arrange these sentences in a logical order.
 * Have students work in groups to create a pantomime for the events in either “The Crane Maiden” or “Aunty Misery.”


 * Homework**


 * Terminology for Teachers**



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 * Resources**


 * Professional Texts**


 * Literary Texts**
 * //Favorite Folktales from Around the World// (Jane Yolen)
 * //Cut from the Same Cloth: American Women of Myth, Legend, and Tall Tale// (Robert D. San Souci, Brian Pinkney, and Jane Yolen)
 * //Golden Tales: Myths, Legends, and Folktales from Latin America// (Lulu Delacre)


 * Informational Texts**
 * //The History Atlas of South America// (MacMillan Continental History Atlases) (Edwin Early, ed.)


 * Art, Music, and Media**


 * Videos**
 * __www.discoveryeducation.com__ (use “search”)


 * SMART Board Lessons, Promethean Lessons**


 * Other Activities, etc.**
 * __@http://www.chatham.edu/pti/curriculum/units/2009/Madigan.pdf__ (African folk tale unit)
 * __@http://learningtogive.org/materials/folktales/__
 * __@http://hti.math.uh.edu/curriculum/units/2006/07/06.07.01.php__ (amazing resources)
 * __@http://teachers.net/lessons/posts/682.htm__
 * __@http://www.chatham.edu/pti/curriculum/units/2004/05.cfm__
 * __@http://www.learner.org/libraries/tfl/support/tfl_cajunfolktale.pdf__
 * __@http://teach.fcps.net/pet/Units/morton3.pdf__
 * __@http://www.lessoncorner.com/English/Literature/Folktales__
 * __@http://www.proteacher.com/070031.shtml__
 * GrammarNotes Combining Sentences:
 * __@http://my.hrw.com/la_2010/na_lit/nsmedia/grammarnotes/level1/level1_lesson03/level1_lesson03.html__
 * Choose Your Own Adventure in Hypertext (a collaborative-writing activity)
 * __@http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson128/Choose_adventure_instructions.pdf__
 * Once They’re Hooked, Reel Them In: Writing Good Endings
 * __@http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/once-they-hooked-reel-995.html__
 * Empowered Fiction Writers: Generating and Organizing Ideas for Story Writing
 * __@http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/empowered-fiction-writers-generating-1025.html__
 * When I Was Young In...A Literature to Language Experience
 * __@http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/when-young-literature-language-911.html__

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