Essential Question: How do we overcome obstacles?

Enduring Understanding: Analyzing how characters confront challenges helps reveal a story’s theme. 

Knowledge Focus

In this unit, students will read a range of fictional stories, including a legend, folktale, and myth, that feature characters facing and overcoming challenges. They will build schema around the following concepts: 

Literature

• A quest is a story in which the main character goes on a difficult journey to accomplish a mission or goal.

• Each character responds to challenges in different ways, and these actions often reveal the character’s human traits.

Cultural Awareness

• Different cultures present and explore universal themes and human experiences in their own unique ways.