Lesson 4 | Anansi the Spider | 2nd Grade Language Arts

Lesson Overview

Objective

Describe Spider by describing how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.

Readings and Materials

Book: The Adventures of Spider: West African Folktales by Joyce Cooper Arkhurst — "Why Spider Lives in Ceilings"

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Lesson Map

Explain why people in West Africa tell folktales about Spider by making inferences about key details that support the central message of a story.

Materials

The Adventures of Spider — Introduction

Standards

RL.2.1RL.2.2

Lesson

Describe Spider by describing how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.

Materials

The Adventures of Spider — "How Spider Got a Thin Waist"

Standards

L.2.6RL.2.2RL.2.3

Lesson

Discussion & Writing

Recount “How Spider Got a Thin Waist” and determine the central message or lesson.

Materials

The Adventures of Spider — "How Spider Got a Thin Waist"

Standards

RL.2.2SL.2.1SL.2.2SL.2.4

Lesson

Describe Spider by describing how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.

Materials

The Adventures of Spider — "Why Spider Lives in Ceilings"

Standards

L.2.6RL.2.2RL.2.3

Lesson

Discussion & Writing

Retell “Why Spider Lives in Ceilings” and determine the central message or lesson.

Materials

The Adventures of Spider — "Why Spider Lives in Ceilings"

Standards

RL.2.2RL.2.5RL.2.9SL.2.1SL.2.2SL.2.4

Lesson

Writing

Construct better and more informative sentences by using question words to add more details.

Materials

The Adventures of Spider

Standards

L.2.1.eL.2.1.f

Lesson

Explain if Spider had been helpful or not by explaining how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.

Materials

The Adventures of Spider — "How Spider Got a Bald Head"

Standards

L.2.6RL.2.2RL.2.3RL.2.9

Lesson

Discussion & Writing

Retell “How Spider Got a Bald Head” and determine the central message or lesson.

Materials

The Adventures of Spider — “How Spider Got a Bald Head”
Teacher-created materials — Props or picture clues to help retell the story

Standards

RL.2.2RL.2.5RL.2.9SL.2.1SL.2.2SL.2.4

Lesson

Describe Spider by describing how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.

Materials

The Adventures of Spider — "How Spider Helped a Fisherman"

Standards

L.2.6RL.2.2RL.2.3RL.2.9

Lesson

Discussion & Writing

Retell “How Spider Helped a Fisherman” and determine the central message or lesson.

Materials

The Adventures of Spider — “How Spider Helped a Fisherman”

Standards

RL.2.2RL.2.5RL.2.9SL.2.1SL.2.2SL.2.4

Lesson

Explain what lesson Spider learned and how he learned it by recounting stories and determining their central lesson.

Materials

The Adventures of Spider — “Why Spiders Live in Dark Corners”

Standards

L.2.6RL.2.2RL.2.3RL.2.9

Lesson

Discussion & Writing

Retell “Why Spiders Live in Dark Corners” including the central message or lesson.

Materials

The Adventures of Spider — “Why Spiders Live in Dark Corners”
Teacher-created materials — Props or picture clues for student retells (optional)

Standards

RL.2.2RL.2.5RL.2.9SL.2.1SL.2.2SL.2.4

Lesson

Writing

Construct better and more informative sentences by using question words to add more details.

Materials

The Adventures of Spider

Standards

L.2.1.eL.2.1.f

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.

Materials

The Adventures of Spider — "How the World Got Wisdom"

Standards

L.2.6RL.2.2RL.2.3RL.2.9

Lesson

Discussion & Writing

Retell “How the World Got Wisdom” and determine the central message or lesson.

Materials

The Adventures of Spider — "How the World Got Wisdom"

Standards

RL.2.2RL.2.5SL.2.1SL.2.2SL.2.4

Lesson

Discussion & Writing

Argue if Spider has more positive or negative traits by defending claims or opinions to content-related questions.

Materials

The Adventures of Spider

Standards

L.2.6RL.2.3RL.2.9SL.2.1SL.2.2W.2.1

Lesson

3 days

Perform a reader’s theater version of Anansi by reading with sufficient accuracy and fluency.

Materials

Anansi's Feast

Standards

RF.2.3RF.2.4RL.2.4SL.2.4

Lesson

Narrative Writing

4 days

Write a trickster tale featuring Spider that includes details about a beginning, middle, and end.

Standards

L.2.2.cL.2.6W.2.3W.2.5

Lesson

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