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How does literature provide insight into a culture?
How does literature provide insight into a culture?
This unit begins with students collectively defining and discussing the word culture. In order to glean the similarities and differences across nations, students read novels, traditional literature, and informational text. Class discussions reinforce awareness of how someone’s perspective can affect their view of events and people. This unit ends with narrative writing relating to the essential question.
This unit begins with students collectively defining and discussing the word culture. In order to glean the similarities and differences across nations, students read novels, traditional literature, and informational text. Class discussions reinforce awareness of how someone’s perspective can affect their view of events and people. This unit ends with narrative writing relating to the essential question.
This year's focus novels include a present-day immigrant from India, an immigrant from China, a Navajo girl from the mid-1800's, and an orphan from 12th century Korea.
This year's focus novels include a present-day immigrant from India, an immigrant from China, a Navajo girl from the mid-1800's, and an orphan from 12th century Korea.
Resources on Cultures
Mr. Donn's Websites for Ancient Korea
Mr. Donn's Websites for India (scroll down to Kids Section)
Mr. Donn's Website for Ancient China
Wonderopolis Article on Hippies
Common Core State Standards:
RL.5.1: Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
RL.5.2: Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in astory or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize text.
RL.5.3: Compare and contrast two or more characters, setting, or events in the text.
RL.5.4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text.
RL.5.5: Explain how a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fits together to provide the overall structure of a particular story, drama, or poem.
RL.5.7: Analyze how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a text (e.g., graphic novel, multimedia presentation of fiction, folktale, myth, poem).
RL.5.MA.8.A: Locate and analyze examples of foreshadowing in stories, poems folktales, and plays.
RL.5.9: Compare and contrast stories in the same genre (e.g., mysteries and adventure stories) on their approaches to similar themes and topics.
RI.5.4: Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 5 topic or subject area.
W.5.3 : Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
W.MA.3.A. Write stories, poems, and scripts that draw on characteristics of tall tales or myths, or of modern genres such as mysteries, fantasies, and historical fiction.
W.5.4: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
W.5.5: With guidance and support from adults and peers, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.
W.5.9: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
SL.5.1: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, group, and teacher-led) on grade 5 topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own ideas clearly.
SL.5.3: Summarize the points a speaker makes and explain how each claim is supported by reasons and evidence.
L.5.2: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization punctuation, and spelling when writing.
e. Spell grade-appropriate words correctly, consulting references as needed.
L.5.3: Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.
a. Expand, combine, and reduce sentences for meaning, reader/listener interest, and style
b. Compare and contrast the varieties of English (e.g., dialects, registers) used in stories, dramas, or poems.
L.5.4: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 5 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
L.5.6: Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases, including those that signal contrast, addition, and other logical relationships (e.g., however, although, nevertheless, similarly, moreover, in addition)
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