Description
- Overview:
- Students will be reading and writing myths. They will follow the structure of short stories and eventually publish their work.
- Subject:
- Arts and Humanities
- Level:
- Middle School
- Material Type:
- Lesson Plan, Unit of Study
- Provider:
- Utah Education Network
- Date Added:
- 08/12/2013
- License:
- Educational Use Permitted
- Language:
- English
- Media Format:
- Downloadable docs, Text/HTML
Standards
Learning Domain: Language
Standard: Choose among simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences to signal differing relationships among ideas.
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Learning Domain: Language
Standard: Spell correctly.
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Learning Domain: Language
Standard: Use the relationship between particular words (e.g., synonym/antonym, analogy) to better understand each of the words.
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Learning Domain: Language
Standard: Distinguish among the connotations (associations) of words with similar denotations (definitions) (e.g., refined, respectful, polite, diplomatic, condescending).
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Language
Standard: Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases; gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Reading for Literature
Standard: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.
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Learning Domain: Reading for Literature
Standard: Analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact (e.g., how setting shapes the characters or plot).
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Learning Domain: Reading for Literature
Standard: Analyze how an author develops and contrasts the points of view of different characters or narrators in a text.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Come to discussions prepared, having read or researched material under study; explicitly draw on that preparation by referring to evidence on the topic, text, or issue to probe and reflect on ideas under discussion.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Follow rules for collegial discussions, track progress toward specific goals and deadlines, and define individual roles as needed.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Pose questions that elicit elaboration and respond to others’ questions and comments with relevant observations and ideas that bring the discussion back on topic as needed.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Acknowledge new information expressed by others and, when warranted, modify their own views.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Analyze the main ideas and supporting details presented in diverse media and formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) and explain how the ideas clarify a topic, text, or issue under study.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Engage and orient the reader by establishing a context and point of view and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally and logically.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1–3 above.)
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on how well purpose and audience have been addressed. (Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of Language standards 1–3 up to and including grade 7 on page 53.)
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Language
Standard: Choose among simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences to signal differing relationships among ideas.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Language
Standard: Spell correctly.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Language
Standard: Use the relationship between particular words (e.g., synonym/antonym, analogy) to better understand each of the words.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Language
Standard: Distinguish among the connotations (associations) of words with similar denotations (definitions) (e.g., refined, respectful, polite, diplomatic, condescending).
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Language
Standard: Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases; gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Reading Literature
Standard: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Reading Literature
Standard: Analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact (e.g., how setting shapes the characters or plot).
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Reading Literature
Standard: Analyze how an author develops and contrasts the points of view of different characters or narrators in a text.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Maryland College and Career Ready English Language Arts Standards
Grade 7Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Come to discussions prepared, having read or researched material under study; explicitly draw on that preparation by referring to evidence on the topic, text, or issue to probe and reflect on ideas under discussion.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Maryland College and Career Ready English Language Arts Standards
Grade 7Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Follow rules for collegial discussions, track progress toward specific goals and deadlines, and define individual roles as needed.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Maryland College and Career Ready English Language Arts Standards
Grade 7Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Pose questions that elicit elaboration and respond to others�۪ questions and comments with relevant observations and ideas that bring the discussion back on topic as needed.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Maryland College and Career Ready English Language Arts Standards
Grade 7Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Acknowledge new information expressed by others and, when warranted, modify their own views.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Speaking and Listening
Standard: Analyze the main ideas and supporting details presented in diverse media and formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) and explain how the ideas clarify a topic, text, or issue under study.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Engage and orient the reader by establishing a context and point of view and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally and logically.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1���3 above.)
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on how well purpose and audience have been addressed. (Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of Language standards 1���3 up to and including grade 7 on page 53.)
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Key Ideas and Details.
Standard: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Key Ideas and Details.
Standard: Analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact (e.g., how setting shapes the characters or plot).
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Craft and Structure.
Standard: Analyze how an author develops and contrasts the points of view of different characters or narrators in a text.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Text Types and Purposes.
Standard: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Text Types and Purposes.
Standard: Engage and orient the reader by establishing a context and point of view and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally and logically.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Production and Distribution of Writing.
Standard: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1–3 above.)
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Production and Distribution of Writing.
Standard: With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on how well purpose and audience have been addressed. (Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of Language standards 1–3 up to and including grade 7 on page 53.)
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Comprehension and Collaboration.
Standard: Come to discussions prepared, having read or researched material under study; explicitly draw on that preparation by referring to evidence on the topic, text, or issue to probe and reflect on ideas under discussion.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Comprehension and Collaboration.
Standard: Follow rules for collegial discussions, track progress toward specific goals and deadlines, and define individual roles as needed.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Comprehension and Collaboration.
Standard: Pose questions that elicit elaboration and respond to others’ questions and comments with relevant observations and ideas that bring the discussion back on topic as needed.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Comprehension and Collaboration.
Standard: Acknowledge new information expressed by others and, when warranted, modify their own views.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Comprehension and Collaboration.
Standard: Analyze the main ideas and supporting details presented in diverse media and formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) and explain how the ideas clarify a topic, text, or issue under study.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Conventions of Standard English.
Standard: Choose among simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences to signal differing relationships among ideas.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Conventions of Standard English.
Standard: Spell correctly.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use.
Standard: Use the relationship between particular words (e.g., synonym/antonym, analogy) to better understand each of the words.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use.
Standard: Distinguish among the connotations (associations) of words with similar denotations (definitions) (e.g., refined, respectful, polite, diplomatic, condescending).
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
Cluster: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use.
Standard: Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases; gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.
Degree of Alignment: Not Rated (0 users)
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Tags (7)
- Language Arts -- Reading
- Language Arts - Writing
- Mythology
- Reading and Writing
- Short Fiction
- Writing - Creative
- Writing - Fiction
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