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Alternate Unit 3
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Describe Spider by describing how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.
Book: The Adventures of Spider: West African Folktales by Joyce Cooper Arkhurst — "How Spider Got a Thin Waist"
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Explain why people in West Africa tell folktales about Spider by making inferences about key details that support the central message of a story.
Standards
RL.2.1RL.2.2
L.2.6RL.2.2RL.2.3
Recount “How Spider Got a Thin Waist” and determine the central message or lesson.
RL.2.2SL.2.1SL.2.2SL.2.4
Retell “Why Spider Lives in Ceilings” and determine the central message or lesson.
RL.2.2RL.2.5RL.2.9SL.2.1SL.2.2SL.2.4
Construct better and more informative sentences by using question words to add more details.
L.2.1.eL.2.1.f
Explain if Spider had been helpful or not by explaining how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.
L.2.6RL.2.2RL.2.3RL.2.9
Retell “How Spider Got a Bald Head” and determine the central message or lesson.
Retell “How Spider Helped a Fisherman” and determine the central message or lesson.
Explain what lesson Spider learned and how he learned it by recounting stories and determining their central lesson.
Retell “Why Spiders Live in Dark Corners” including the central message or lesson.
Explain why Spider decided to throw the pot on the ground by describing how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.
Retell “How the World Got Wisdom” and determine the central message or lesson.
RL.2.2RL.2.5SL.2.1SL.2.2SL.2.4
Argue if Spider has more positive or negative traits by defending claims or opinions to content-related questions.
L.2.6RL.2.3RL.2.9SL.2.1SL.2.2W.2.1
3 days
Perform a reader’s theater version of Anansi by reading with sufficient accuracy and fluency.
RF.2.3RF.2.4RL.2.4SL.2.4
4 days
Write a trickster tale featuring Spider that includes details about a beginning, middle, and end.
L.2.2.cL.2.6W.2.3W.2.5
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