How do similar themes and events in stories from different cultures reflect universal human experiences?
Global Citizenship: Students embrace diverse cultural perspectives through the exploration of themes and stories from around the world.
Critical Thinking: Students analyze and evaluate themes and narrative patterns, enhancing their comprehension and insight into literature.
Communication: Students articulate their understanding and analysis of literature through written and oral means.
What are common themes found in stories across various cultures?
How do different cultures approach the concept of good vs. evil?
In what ways do patterns of events, like quests, vary and align across cultural stories?
Students will identify and compare themes in literature from at least two different cultures.
Students will analyze how the treatment of good vs. evil is portrayed across cultural stories.
Students will evaluate the significance of the plot in different cultural contexts.
RL4.9: Compare and contrast the treatment of similar themes and topics (e.g., opposition of good and evil) and patterns of events (e.g., the quest) in stories, myths, and traditional literature from different cultures.
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