This week we will begin our new unit over myths, legends, and tales.
Key Question: What can stories teach us?
Unit Goals
Literary Analysis
Key Question: What can stories teach us?
Unit Goals
Literary Analysis
- Identify and analyze characteristics of myths, legends, folk tales, and tall tales
- Identify cultural values in myths and legends
- Identify and compare universal themes
- Use reading strategies, including predicting, monitoring, and visualizing
- Identify cause-and-effect relationships and chronological order
- Use correct sentence structure
- Identify simple and compound sentences
- Form complex sentences
- Understand and use homographs
- Understand the meaning of compound words
- myth
- legend
- folk tale
- tall tale
- universal theme
- compound sentences
- complex sentences
- homograph