Curriculum / ELA / 3rd Grade / Unit 3: Passing Down Wisdom: Hispanic and African American Folktales / Lesson 16
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Analyze common messages/lessons across different folktales and how characters are similar and different across different folktales.
Book: Tales Our Abuelitas Told: A Hispanic Folktale Collection by F. Isabel Campoy and Alma Flora Ada
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Tales Our Abuelitas Told is a collection of folktales with similar messages/lessons and characters. What messages/lessons are present across the different folktales?
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L.3.6 — Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate conversational, general academic, and domain-specific words and phrases, including those that signal spatial and temporal relationships (e.g., After dinner that night we went looking for them).
RL.3.2 — Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.
RL.3.9 — Compare and contrast the themes, settings, and plots of stories written by the same author about the same or similar characters (e.g., in books from a series).
SL.3.1 — Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 3 topics and texts, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly.
SL.3.1.a — Come to discussions prepared, having read or studied required material; explicitly draw on that preparation and other information known about the topic to explore ideas under discussion.
SL.3.1.d — Explain their own ideas and understanding in light of the discussion.
SL.3.6 — Speak in complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification.
Standards that are practiced daily but are not priority standards of the unit
SL.3.1.b — Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., gaining the floor in respectful ways, listening to others with care, speaking one at a time about the topics and texts under discussion).
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Write a paragraph stating which folktale is your favorite and why.
Recount what happens in "The Bird of One Thousand Colors."
Standards
RL.3.2RL.3.3
Describe the Turkey, and how his actions contribute to the sequence of events.
RL.3.3
Explain what lesson the author is trying to teach in "The Bird of One Thousand Colors."
Make sentences better and more interesting by combining two or more sentences.
L.3.1SL.3.1.a
Recount what happens in "'Dear Deer!' Said the Turtle."
Describe Venado and Jicotea, and how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.
RL.3.3W.3.1
Explain what lesson the author is trying to teach in "'Dear Deer!' Said the Turtle."
L.3.1
Recount what happens in "The Goat from the Hills and Mountains."
Describe the soldier and the ant, and how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.
Explain what lesson the author is trying to teach in "The Goat from the Hills and Mountains."
Use subordinating conjunctions to write more interesting and complex sentences.
Recount what happens in "The Happy Man’s Tunic."
Describe the shepherd, and how his actions contribute to the sequence of events.
Describe what lesson the author is trying to teach about happiness in "The Happy Man's Tunic."
L.3.6RL.3.2RL.3.9SL.3.1SL.3.1.aSL.3.1.dSL.3.6
2 days
L.3.1L.3.2W.3.1W.3.1.aW.3.1.b
Describe Brer Rabbit and how his actions contribute to the sequence of events.
Describe Brer Rabbit.
RL.3.2RL.3.3RL.3.9
4 days
Defend whether or not Brer Rabbit is a good role model by using evidence from the stories throughout the unit.
L.3.1.hL.3.1.iL.3.2.eL.3.2.fL.3.2.gW.3.1W.3.1.aW.3.1.bW.3.1.cW.3.4W.3.5W.3.8
Analyze and debate unit essential questions.
RL.3.2SL.3.1SL.3.1.aSL.3.1.dSL.3.6
Gauge student understanding of unit content and skills with one of Fishtank's unit assessments.
5 days
Write a narrative using effective technique and organizing an event sequence that unfolds naturally.
L.3.1L.3.2W.3.3W.3.3.aW.3.3.c
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