6.2.6LA

** Grade: 6 Unit: 2 Week: 6 Content: ELA Dates: 11/5-11/7 ** ** Theme: What do myths, legends, and tales reveal about world cultures? **  ** Essential Questions: **
 * ** How does learning about folklore help me understand world cultures? **
 * ** How do I apply the morals and lessons taught by myths, legends, and tales to my life? **

** Focus Standards ** ** Ongoing Standards **  ** Objectives ** ** Assessment ** ** Product **  ** Key Questions (match Standard) **
 *  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.
 *  L.6.1a Ensure that pronouns are in the proper case (possessive).
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> L.6.3a Vary sentence patterns for meaning, reader interest, and style.
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> L.6.4b Use common, grade-appropriate Greek or Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word (e.g., //audience, auditory, audible//).
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> W.6.2 Write informative/explanatory texts
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> W.6.4 Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> W.6.10 Write routinely over shorter time frames.
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> L.6.4a Use context (e.g., the overall meaning of a sentence or paragraph; a word’s position or function in a sentence) as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> 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.
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> RI.6.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings.
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> 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.
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> SL.6.1c Pose and respond to specific questions with elaboration and detail by making comments that contribute to the topic, text, or issue under discussion.
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> SL.6.1d Review the key ideas expressed and demonstrate understanding of multiple perspectives through reflection and paraphrasing.
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> SL.6.1 Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) on grade 6 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> W.6.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> W.6.7 Conduct short research projects to answer a question, drawing on several sources and refocusing the inquiry when appropriate.
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> TLW choose various folktales to describe how a particular story’s or drama’s plot unfolds in a series of episodes that helps them identify life lessons learned.
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> TLW engage effectively in discussions about topics, texts, and issues to compare different folktales using graphic organizers, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> Group presentations of original folktales, myths, or legends to the class.
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> The class will discuss the varying lessons learned presented by students to identify commonalities and differences.
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> Compare different folktales using graphic organizers.
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> What effective techniques can I use when I write a narrative?
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> How can I use collaboration in groups to aid my understanding of folklore?

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">** Observable Student Behaviors (Performance) ** <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">** Vocabulary ** Cause/effect Character analysis Compare/contrast Custom Universal theme || <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">** Suggested Activities ** <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">** Homework ** <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">** Terminology for Teachers ** Ethnicity/Culture | Immigration/Migration | Intercultural Competence | Socialization | Racism/Discrimination **High Yield Strategies** Similarities/Differences | Summarizing/Notetaking | Reinforcing/Recognition | Homework/Practice | Non-Linguistic representation | Cooperative Learning | Objectives/Feedback | Generating-Testing Hypothesis | Cues, Questions, Organizers || || <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> Lesson Plan in Word Format (Click Cancel if asked to Log In)
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> Student will produce a narrative response to the lessons taught in various folktales.
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> Student will create a graphic organizer comparing two folktales.
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> Student will create a graphic organizer comparing a folktale to personal life experience.
 * ** ELA **
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> Read “Yeh-Shen: A Cinderella Story from China” (HMU6, pages 762-768) and “Sootface: An Ojibwa Cinderella Story” (HMU6, pages 770-775). Complete a graphic organizer that shows the similarities and differences between the two stories.
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> Have students complete a character analysis Venn diagram of one of the title characters and then write a brief paragraph that analyzes that character.
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> The class will discuss the varying lessons learned presented by students to identify commonalities and differences. (MCO:E/C, S, R) (HYS:NL, SN, CQG)
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> Compare different folktales using graphic organizers. (MCO:E/C,R, S) (HYS:NL, SN, CQG)
 * ||  **Multicultural Concepts**

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">** Resources ** <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">** Professional Texts ** <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">** Literary Texts ** <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">** Informational Texts ** <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">** Art, Music, and Media ** <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">** Games ** <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">** Videos ** <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">** Sight Words ** <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">** SMART Board Lessons, Promethean Lessons ** <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">** Other Activities, etc. **
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> “Twelfth Song of Thunder” (Navajo, Traditional) (E)
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">// American Tall Tales // (Mary Pope Osborne and Michael McCurdy) (EA)
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">// Favorite Folktales from Around the World // (Jane Yolen)
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">// Golden Tales: Myths, Legends, and Folktales from Latin America // (Lulu Delacre) (Note: This title also includes informational text.)
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">// Aztec, Inca, and Maya // (DK Eyewitness Books) (Elizabeth Baquedano and Barry Clarke)
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">// Golden Tales: Myths, Legends, and Folktales from Latin America // (Lulu Delacre) (Note: This title also includes folktales.)
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> CBS Storybreak - Yeh-Shen A Cinderella Story from China
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ou0Wy4ucjs&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> @http://www.1channel.ch/watch-2197503-CBS-Storybreak-Yeh-Shen-A-Cinderella-Story-from-China
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">__ http://aaunlo.multiply.com/journal/item/34/Yeh __
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> Shen_A_Cinderella_Story_from_China_Download_Full_Film?&show_interstitial=1&u=%2Fjournal%2Fitem
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> Yeh-Shen : A Cinderella Story from China
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> @http://www.abcteach.com/free/b/book_yehshe_upperelem.pdf
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> Yeh – Shen A Cinderella Story from China
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> @http://www.education.ne.gov/forlg/Elementary/ChineseUnits/CinderellaYehShen.pdf

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