Unit 2 Week 1 - Ways Characters Shape Stories |
Key Topics (Standards) for Unit 2 - Days 1-5
1. Identify Key Events and Summarize
2. Analyze Genre Features: Fables, Myths & Folktales 3. Analyze Characters in a Story 4. Identify Genre Features: Poetry |
5. Similes
6. Compare and Contrast Characters 7. Plan, Draft, Write & Revise a Fable |
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even freedom honey hungry leave pieces queens screamed |
Vocabulary to Support Instructional Objectives
generate prior knowledge concise genre features retelling literary elements visualize nonliteral language compare and contrast dialogue |
Domain Specific Vocabulary
"Two Famous Poems" ballads (p. 6) bellows (p. 9) forge (p. 9) threshing (p. 9) |
Academic Vocabulary
"Two Fables from Aesop" noble (p. 5) "Two Famous Poems" anonymous (p. 6) "Geese for the Queen" attitudes (p. 11) |
Unit 2 Week 2 - Ways Characters Shape Stories |
Key Topics (Standards) for Unit 2 - Days 6-10
1. Identify Key Details and Summarized
2. Distinguish Shades of Meaning Among Related Words 3. Identify and Analyze Nonliteral Language |
4. Analyze How Character Traits Influence a Story
5. Explanatory Writing |
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cried fighting island might myself provided sacrifice unwind |
Vocabulary to Support Instructional Objectives
accurate interpret analyze text evidence challenge |
Academic Vocabulary
muttered (p. 13) strolled (p.16) |
Unit 2 Week 3 - Ways Characters Shape Stories |
Key Topics (Standards) for Unit 2 - Days 11-15
1. Identify Key Events and Summarize
2. Analyze How Illustrations Convey Mood and Character 3. Analyze How Illustrations Contribute to a Story |
4. Compare and Contrast Characters
5. Writing - Opinion Piece |
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firelight heartbeat hillside mountaintop thunderclap treetops underwater woodstove |
Vocabulary to Support Instructional Objectives
versus word of mouth convey mood aspects |
Academic Vocabulary
companions (p. 28) kindhearted (p. 22) reluctantly (p. 29) vanished (p. 29) |