Traditional+Literature

TRADITIONAL LITERATURE CORE COMPONENTS
 * Folktales, fairytales, and fables are designed to teach lessons and morals. These texts were originally orally shared stories that were passed down from generation to generation.
 * Myths are designed to explain the origins of scientific or medical phenomenon as well as the endings of certain phenomenon.
 * Because myths focus on beginnings and endings, myths are set in specific cultures and occur within a specific period of time.
 * Folktales, fairytales, and fables are timeless and typically are not bound to a specific location.
 * Myths feature superhuman characters.
 * Folktales, fairytales, and fables usually feature human characters or animal characters with human traits
 * Students need to understand that fairy tales, folktales, myths, and legends are used in order to pass cultural norms and beliefs on to the next generation. In addition to being entertaining, each example of Theme & Genre is designed to teach lessons to the reader. Originally, these texts were exclusively oral, passed down from generation-to-generation by word of mouth.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Students are expected to examine the differences between the settings of myths & the settings of folktales. The setting is one of the critical characteristics that distinguishes myths from folktales. Folktales are not located in any specific period of time. Although many folktales have origins that are old, the tales themselves are not bound by time. However, myths deal with the origins of phenomenon and clearly are set in specific cultures and in specific times.
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Students need to be exposed to folktales (fables, myths, legends, stories). Students need to see examples from a variety of cultural as well as those that are historical and contemporary.
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Cultural – For example, there are many versions of Cinderella, which represent various cultures (The Rough-Face Girl by Rafe Martin, David Shannon – 47 copies;The Egyptian Cinderella by Shirley Climo – 30 copies; Yeh-Shen: a Cinderella Story from China by Ai-Ling Louie – 17 copies). Another example comes from the Ananse stories: Ananse and the Lizard: a West African tale – 15 copies.
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Historical – These represent versions of folktales that are closer to the original stories that came from specific countries. These are not Disney versions of stories, but closely represent the oral versions told in cultures for great periods of time. Examples include Cinderella by Charles Perrault – 5 copies; The Sleeping Beauty retold by Trina Schart Hyman; John Henry: an American Legend by Ezra Jack Keats – 11 copies.
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Contemporary – These are fractured versions of traditional tales or creative versions that have been written in the last 10 years

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">https://literacy-with-lora.wikispaces.com/Folktales+-+Legends%2C+Myths%2C+Fables%2C+%26+Fun (Please see teaching points in this section to avoid going to deeply with concepts.)


 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Teaching Points** The link attached at the top will direct teachers to a page on the ELA wiki with graphic organizers and more details. The teacher introduces the genres by reading aloud from a variety of these kinds of texts, in order for students to become familiar with these texts and analyze their elements Rather than becoming absorbed in the differences between myths, legends, fables, it is more important for students to interpret the themes and morals of various folktales (myths, legends, fables). Students also need to gain an understanding about the particular cultural beliefs expressed across these genres. Students are required to make the distinction between the settings of myths versus traditional folktales, which is a key understanding that separates these categories.

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.wikispaces.com/i/a.gif); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Search for fairytales, fable, and other genres and by age level]

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;">FAIRYTALE INTRODUCTION <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;">Materials you will need: Magic Wand - star covered and glittered, Cinderella Song - Snow-white Songs, Fairy Tale Books, On Poster or Board the Words (magic, fantasy stories, plot, setting, characters, once Upon A Time, The Jolly Postman by Allan Ahlberg
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px;">Folktales, fairytales, and fables usually feature human characters or animal characters with human traits **

Tell the class that you need them to be detectives! Say, "I need you to listen to these two songs and figure out what kind of books we will be reading and learning about. As you listen to the songs I will be placing clues in front of the room to help you come up with the answers on this sheet. Let’s see who is the best detective in the class." (Play the song and set-up the fairy tale books, put out the wand and wite the words on the board) After the two songs have played tap a volunteer on the head to guess what kinds of books we will be reading. Once a student guess fairy tales andthe name of the two songs. Explain, "Yes, over the next week some of the things we will be doing are we will be reading many fairy tales and discussing the elements of fairytales. Fairytales are traditional literature.

Let's review the genre poster for traditional literature. We will also be reading, Fables, Myths, and Legends.

Today we will start our Traditional Literature unit by being read a book about a postman who delivers letters to fairy tale characters. As we read the Jolly Postman, I want you to recall the fairytale that you may have heard of and let’s fill in the chart: [|fairytale anchor chart.pdf] (If you want to be brave and start writing summaries with each fairytale you come across, go for it!)

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;">Required Lesson <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;">- For fairy tales and folktales, readers need to be able to locate examples of “the rule of 3,” which means that events typically happen in series of 3.The “magic helper” should also be identified in these kinds of texts.


 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;">Use a graphic organizer to show the rule of 3, one model, one guided, one independent
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;">[[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/pdf.png caption="external image pdf.png" link="http://tves3rdgradereading.wikispaces.com/file/view/fairytale+graphic+organizer.pdf"]] [|fairytale graphic organizer.pdf]
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;">additional graphic organizer for fairytales <span style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.wikispaces.com/i/a.gif); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[]

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;">Grade- Fairytale-Graphic Organizer

Additional Lessons and Resources:


 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;">Ball Toss- In a circle, students should toss a ball. Each time the ball is tossed, the person tossing should name a fairy tale, a fairy tale character or anything that comes to mind about fairy tales. The object of the game is to keep the ball moving and using spontaneity to uncover buried knowledge of fairy tales.
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;">This site is a lesson plan for writing your own fractured fairytales: <span style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.wikispaces.com/i/a.gif); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[]
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;">[[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/pdf.png caption="external image pdf.png" link="http://tves3rdgradereading.wikispaces.com/file/view/fairytales+lesson.pdf"]] [|fairytales lesson.pdf]

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;">Reading Resources: Shared Reading-


 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;">Extra, Extra Fairytale News from the Hidden Forest (good text to text connection with introduction lesson)
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;">Stone Soup
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;">Jack Draws a Beanstalk SE 246

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;">Guided Reading- <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;">Links:
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;">Nightbird-40

<span style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.wikispaces.com/i/a.gif); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[] This site has lots of teacher resources.

==<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;">FABLES INTRODUCTION ** ==

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;">Discuss the difference between fiction and non fiction. Review the characteristics of traditional literature using your genre poster. Have students give titles of stories or books that they have read that fit into this genre. Write a list on the board. Explain that we will be learning about different types of traditional literature over the next two weeks. Read "The Shepard's Boy" to your class without reading reading the moral. [|the sheperds boy.doc]Ask students what this story teaches. Discuss the moral of the story. Discuss the characteristics of a fable (animals with human characteristics that learn a lesson)Have students give examples of other stories with morals they may have heard before. Model completing a copy of the fables graphic organizer. [|traditional literature GO.docx]

Review the list of traditional literature. See if students can identify any fables that they may have read.

Have students work in groups to read their own fable and complete the chart fables graphic organizer for their own stories.

Additional Fables Resources:

<span style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.wikispaces.com/i/a.gif); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Links to Several Aesop's Fables] <span style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.wikispaces.com/i/a.gif); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|This link has a podcast of someone reading the Wood Cutter and the Lion. It also has a worksheet with a few questions to go with it. Moderatly difficult.]

[|easy fable worksheet.pdf]

[|antgrasshopper.pdf] Students read and answer questions about "The Ant and the Grasshopper."

[|the pelican and the crane readers theater.doc] <span style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.wikispaces.com/i/a.gif); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Link with Many of Aesop's Fables]

There is a great video on united streaming called Aesop's Fables. It explains a small bit about Aesop and then tells a few fables. It is only thirteen minutes long.

[|aesop.ppt] [|Fables Ideas.pdf]

Reading Adoption- The Ant and the Grasshopper SE pg 228

Folktales- Chief Sky-Folktale SE p441 The Harvest Birds SE pg 258 Paca and the Beetle MAGAZINE


 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;">LEGENDS INTRODUCTION **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;">Legends may be on fact, but has details that didn't happen or are highly exaggerated **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;">Read John Henry or one of the legends listed below from our text book, we have hard copies and we also have it in our SS books on page 204-207. Point out that he does an impossible thing. John challenges a steam drill to race to dig a tunnel. The drill digs fasts so he uses two hammers. John wins when the drill breaks.Complete the graphic organizer as a class.

Additional Resources for Legends: [|Legends Native American 4 stories.doc] Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bills (good to comparison to Paul Bunyan), and Casey Jones are all discussed in the social studies book.
 * [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/msword.png caption="external image msword.png" link="http://tves3rdgradereading.wikispaces.com/file/view/Legends+Native+American+4+stories.doc"]] ||
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Reading Resources: Shared Reading


 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;">Yonder Mountain and Cherokee Legend
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;">The Dragons Read-Myth
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;">The Raven-Myth Play

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;">Legend
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;">Lonely Man-38
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;">Tuk Becomes a Hunter-34
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 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;">Timid Boy and Mama Bear-A Pueblo Legend-24

==<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;">MYTHS INTRODUCTION ** == <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;">Review the characteristics of traditional literature. Use the Pegasus power point found on the follwing link. <span style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.wikispaces.com/i/a.gif); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Short Greek Myths] Work as a class to complete the myths graphic organizer.See if students can identify any myths that they may have read. Pass out copies of myths to groups of students. Have students read the myths and complete the graphic organizer for their myth. Have students share out their myths. Discuss with students any similarities or differences seen in their myths, especially the settings.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;">Myths are stories that explains through actions of gods and goddesses **

Additional Resources for Myths:

<span style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.wikispaces.com/i/a.gif); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Several Myths]

[|~7965483.pdf]Several Short Readers Theaters Scripts Focusing on Greek Myths.

[|traditional lit.ppt] A brief definition and examples of fables, legends, myths, and fairy tales.

[|myths with good ws on page 14 or 15.pdf]

[|Theseus and the Minotaur Reader's Theater.doc] [|Athena and Medusa.docx] [|Odysseus and the Cyclops.doc] [|Reader's Theater Pandora's Box.doc]

Students analyze, make inferences, and draw conclusions about theme & genre in different cultural, historical, and contemporary contexts and provide evidence from the text to support their understanding 3.5A paraphrase the themes and supporting details of fables, legends, myths, or stories 3.5B compare and contrast the settings in myths and traditional literature (F) understand literary forms by recognizing and distinguishing among such types of text as stories, poems, myths, fables, tall tales, limericks, plays, biographies, and autobiographies

Theme and Genre (traditional literature and myths, drama) https://literacy-with-lora.wikispaces.com/Folktales+-+Legends%2C+Myths%2C+Fables%2C+%26+Fun (Please see teaching points in this section to avoid going to deeply with concepts.)


 * Teaching Points** The link attached at the top (by Theme & Genre) will direct teachers to a page on the ELA wiki with graphic organizers and more details. The teacher introduces the genres by reading aloud from a variety of these kinds of texts, in order for students to become familiar with these texts and analyze their elements Rather than becoming absorbed in the differences between myths, legends, fables, it is more important for students to interpret the themes and morals of various folktales (myths, legends, fables). Students also need to gain an understanding about the particular cultural beliefs expressed across these genres. Students are required to make the distinction between the settings of myths versus traditional folktales, which is a key understanding that separates these categories.

<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Search for fairytales, fable, and other genres and by age level]

<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">Fables
Discuss the difference between fiction and non fiction. Review the characteristics of traditional literature using your genre poster. Have students give titles of stories or books that they have read that fit into this genre. Write a list on the board. Explain that we will be learning about different types of traditional literature over the next two weeks. Read "The Shepard's Boy" to your class without reading reading the moral. [|the sheperds boy.doc]Ask students what this story teaches. Discuss the moral of the story. Discuss the characteristics of a fable (animals with human characteristics that learn a lesson)Have students give examples of other stories with morals they may have heard before. Model completing a copy of the fables graphic organizer. [|traditional literature GO.docx]
 * Day One:**

Review the list of traditional literature. See if students can identify any fables that they may have read.

Have students work in groups to read their own fable and complete the chart fables graphic organizer for their own stories.
 * Day Two:**

Additional Fables Resources:

<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Links to Several Aesop's Fables] <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|This link has a podcast of someone reading the Wood Cutter and the Lion. It also has a worksheet with a few questions to go with it. Moderatly difficult.]

[|easy fable worksheet.pdf]

[|antgrasshopper.pdf] Students read and answer questions about "The Ant and the Grasshopper."

[|the pelican and the crane readers theater.doc] <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Link with Many of Aesop's Fables]

There is a great video on united streaming called Aesop's Fables. It explains a small bit about Aesop and then tells a few fables. It is only thirteen minutes long.

[|aesop.ppt] [|Fables Ideas.pdf]

<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**Myths**
Myths are stories that explains through actions of gods and goddesses


 * Day One:**

Review the characteristics of traditional literature. Use the Pegasus powerpoint found on the follwing link. <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Short Greek Myths]

Work as a class to complete the myths graphic organizer.

Review the list of traditional literature. See if students can identify any myths that they may have read.


 * Day Two:**

Pass out copies of myths to groups of students. Have students read the myths and complete the graphic organizer for their myth. Have students share out their myths.

Disucss with students any similarities or differences seen in their myths, especially the settings.

Additional Resources for Myths:

<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Several Myths]

[|~7965483.pdf]Several Short Readers Theaters Scripts Focusing on Greek Myths.

[|traditional lit.ppt] A brief definition and examples of fables, legends, myths, and fairy tales.

[|myths with good ws on page 14 or 15.pdf]

[|Theseus and the Minotaur Reader's Theater.doc] [|Athena and Medusa.docx] [|Odysseus and the Cyclops.doc] [|Reader's Theater Pandora's Box.doc] [|Tale of 2 Spinners - Reader's Theatre Story of Arachne.doc] [|The Story of Perseus and Medusa.doc] [|Athena and Medusa.docx] [|Myths from various countries.doc] [|Myths End of the Golden Age.pdf] [|Myths Zeus and his might friend.pdf]

<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**Legends**
Legends may be on fact, but has details that didn't happen or are highly exaggerated

Review the list of traditional literature. See if students can identify any legends that they may have read.
 * Day One:**

Read John Henry, we have hard copies and we also have it in our SS books on page 204-207. Point out that he does an impossible thing. John challenges a steam drill to race to dig a tunnel. The drill digs fasts so he uses two hammers. John wins when the drill breaks.

Complete the graphic organizer as a class.


 * Day Two:**

Have students read a different legend in groups and then complete their graphic organizers. Have each group share out with the class.

Additional Resources for Legends: [|Legends Native American 4 stories.doc] Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bills (good to comparte to Paul Bunyan), and Casey Jones are all discussed in the social studies book.