Unit Six
Benchmark Advance - Reading
Benchmark Advance - Reading
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.
The following IXL tasks can be used to practice the skills that will be assessed at the end of this unit.
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