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Alternate Unit 3
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Write a continuation of one of the stories from the unit by using relevant details from the text to write a story with a clear sequence of events and descriptive details.
Book: Classic Starts: Roman Myths by Diane Namm
Rubric: Grade 3 Narrative Writing Rubric
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Pick one of the story continuations you wrote in an earlier lesson. Revise and edit the story in order to ensure that it tells a complete story.
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W.3.3 — Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
W.3.3.b — Use dialogue and descriptions of actions, thoughts, and feelings to develop experiences and events or show the response of characters to situations.
W.3.3.c — Use temporal words and phrases to signal event order.
W.3.3.d — Provide a sense of closure.
Standards that are practiced daily but are not priority standards of the unit
L.3.1.a — Explain the function of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs in general and their functions in particular sentences.
L.3.1.d — Form and use regular and irregular verbs.
L.3.1.e — Form and use the simple (e.g., I walked; I walk; I will walk) verb tenses.
L.3.1.f — Ensure subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement.
L.3.1.g — Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs, and choose between them depending on what is to be modified.
L.3.1.h — Use coordinating and subordinating conjunctions.
L.3.2.c — Use commas and quotation marks in dialogue.
L.3.3 — Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.
L.3.3.a — Choose words and phrases for effect.
W.3.4 — With guidance and support from adults, produce writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task and purpose. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1—3 above.)
W.3.5 — With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, and editing.
W.3.6 — With guidance and support from adults, use technology to produce and publish writing (using keyboarding skills) as well as to interact and collaborate with others.
W.3.10 — Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
Describe the twelve major gods and goddesses who were honored and worshiped in ancient Rome.
Standards
RL.3.3
Describe Jupiter.
Describe the central message of "The Oak and the Linden Tree" and how it is conveyed through key details.
RL.3.2
Describe what happened to Io.
RL.3.2RL.3.3
Explain how Jupiter's actions contributed to the sequence of events.
Describe how Hercules' actions contribute to the sequence of events.
Describe the central message of "Atlas and the Eleventh Labor of Hercules" and how it is conveyed through key details.
2 days
Write a story about what happens when Hercules tries to return the golden apples by retelling key details from the text using descriptive details and clear sequence of events.
W.3.3W.3.3.b
Analyze and debate unit Essential Questions using details and understandings from the different myths.
RL.3.9SL.3.1
Explain why Psyche is unable to find true love and what impact it has on everyone.
Describe how Psyche's sisters influence her and the sequence of events in the story.
Describe the central message of "Cupid and Psyche" and how it is conveyed through key details.
Write a story about how Psyche responds to the fact that Cupid is gone when she wakes up by retelling key details from the text using descriptive details and clear sequence of events.
L.3.1L.3.2W.3.3W.3.3.bW.3.3.c
Describe Otus and Ephialtes and how they influence the sequence of events.
Describe the central message of "Otus and Ephialtes, Twin Giants" and how it is conveyed through key details.
Write a story describing what happens after the gods got their revenge by retelling key details from the text using descriptive details and clear sequence of events.
L.3.1L.3.2W.3.3W.3.3.b
Defend if Romulus and Remus' desire for power had a positive or negative impact on their lives.
Describe the central message of "Romulus and Remus" and how it is conveyed through key details.
RL.3.2RL.3.3SL.3.1
Write a story about what happens after Romulus welcomes everyone to his new city, Rome, by retelling key details from the text using descriptive details and a clear sequence of events.
L.3.1W.3.3W.3.3.b
RL.3.2RL.3.9SL.3.1
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W.3.3W.3.3.bW.3.3.cW.3.3.d
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