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Unit Overview
Unit Overview
Communities often look to their earliest stories in order to understand their own values and beliefs. This unit will focus on reading myths and folktales from various cultures around the world in order to sharpen students’ abilities to compare works and find common ideas and symbols. Students will analyze these stories to understand how communities use storytelling to make sense of the world. They will explore the ideas that myths and folklore express universal ideas, have shared situations and symbols, and also express the unique identities and values of the communities from which they originate.
Communities often look to their earliest stories in order to understand their own values and beliefs. This unit will focus on reading myths and folktales from various cultures around the world in order to sharpen students’ abilities to compare works and find common ideas and symbols. Students will analyze these stories to understand how communities use storytelling to make sense of the world. They will explore the ideas that myths and folklore express universal ideas, have shared situations and symbols, and also express the unique identities and values of the communities from which they originate.
Unit Vocabulary
Unit Vocabulary
mythology
close read
main idea
gist
plot
flood myth
archetype
symbol
compare and contrast
Venn diagram
claim
text evidence
explanation/ commentary
conflict
allusion
Essential Questions
Essential Questions
Why are reading, writing, and storytelling essential components of the human experience?
How does English Language Arts expand our perspective?
How does where we come from shape our identity?
How does where we come from shape our identity?
Why do we want to belong and what are our responsibilities to those who don’t?
Unit Standards
Unit Standards
All ELA standards can be found listed in the updated 2017 Massachusetts State ELA Grade 7 Frameworks:
Students will learn...
Reading for Literature:
Key Ideas and Details
How to cite multiple pieces of evidence
How to determine strong evidence
How to use quotations to support claims
How to identify parts of a story including plot, conflict and describe their role in the story
How to determine a central idea or theme
Craft and Structure
How to identify and analyze the use of figurative language in a text: symbolism
How to identify and analyze literary techniques in a text: allusion, archetype (place)
Mentor Texts
Mentor Texts
Various World Myths
Various World Myths
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