Objectives
Students will:
- know that a community's culture
is expressed in part through its stories.
- identify cultural perspectives in folktales and legends.
- Identifies features of literary
texts.
- Identifies Author's Purpose
- Understands development of
plot.
- Compares two literary texts
- Reads self-selected text
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Procedure
1.
Introduce Folktales to the class.
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They are
traditional stories passed down from generation to generation.
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The
characters are usually animals, although not always.
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These stories
often teach a lesson.
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Many of these stories contain information about the
country and teach a moral about human behavior and relationships.
Teacher, you
may want to visit
PowerPoint on What is a Folktale?
2. Read out
loud, Hungry Spider: A Tale from Africa by Pleasant DeSpain
Illustrated by Daniel Moreton (this story can be found in
Houghton Mifflin Third Grade
Reading Book, 2003)
3. Make a
class story map and ask questions on the story that apply.
Questions
on Folktale
4. Tell
students that they are going to research a folktale from their countries.
Give students copy of questions to answer.
5. Then
they will write a summary to tell about the folktale that they chose.
6.
Students will pair up to share and compare folktales using a
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Materials
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Select a
variety of folktales to display in the classroom.
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Hungry
Spider: A Tale from Africa by Pleasant DeSpain Illustrated by Daniel
Moreton (this story can be found in
Houghton Mifflin Third Grade
Reading Book, 2003)
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Construction
paper
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blank white
paper
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Homework
- Ask your parents or
another family member to tell you a folktale that they know.
- Write a summary of the
folktale your parents told you and write to tell if there is a lesson to
be learned.
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Extension
- The student will make a
book on the folktale
they chose.
- They will make a cover
page.
- Then write the story in
their own words in book form using several pages.
- On the back page of the
book they will place a map of the country it came from and the lesson
they learned.
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Fieldtrips
or Activities
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Find out if
there is any play or movie showing in town that resembles a fable or
folktale. (Maybe a high school or college drama group may be putting one
on)
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Make the
necessary arrangements to take the class to a show.
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If not, maybe
the class can a choose a fable in act it out.
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