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Objectives :
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To help students understand and appreciate folklore.
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To help students express understanding the categories of folklore- myths,
folk tales, fables, and legends.
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To help students connect folk tales with their own lives.
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To help student understand and connect heroes with their own life.
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Students will show examples of figurative language through the images
of the natural world while reading folklore.
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To help students with higher thinking skills by comparing and contrasting.
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To bring students awareness of various creation myths.
Multicultural Connections:
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Different cultures have folk heroes that reward kindness and generosity.
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Belief might affect a persons view point. How might it affect everyday
life in today’s world?
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Students can identify with heroes.
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Different cultural beginnings.
Links: Ask Eric Lesson
Plans
The Encylopedia Mythica
Lesson 1
State Goals 2 &
5
Objective:
Students will understand and appreciate folklore
Students will recognize strategies for reading folklore.
Procedure:
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Explain to students that "folk" means people and "lore"
means information. Stress that folklore is not only the stories
of groups of people but also their arts, crafts, games, sayings, celebrations,
and so on. Ask students to share examples of folklore in their heritage.
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Teacher has students look up the meaning of Myths, Folk Tales, Fables,
& Legends.
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Students will create a word web with "folklore" in the middle, and they
will add details. (meaning)
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Lesson
2
State Goals 3 & 4
Objective: To examine the concept
of myth (students can write about prior knowledge).
Expand and master vocabulary
Enrich reading by making connections with modern heroes.
Procedure: Student clicks
on, Greek
Gods
Assign research on Gods or Goddesses for an oral report (5 minutes).
Students will create
their own creation myth.
Lesson
3
State Goals 1 & 2
Objective: Enrich reading by making
connections with modern heroes
Listen and respond critically to gain knowledge from spoken messages.
Procedure: Students will share oral
reports on gods & goddesses.
Create a myth explaining common natural occurrences ( the rising and
setting of the sun, the cause of the rain or snow, the nature of clouds).
Students will create their own myth on the web.
Create your
own creation myth ,
Students will relate to, Great
Heroes
Lesson
4
State Goals 2 & 4
Objective: Making
connections with modern heroes.
Procedure: Students can compare
and contrast heroes with
Modern Heroes
Great Heroes
Lesson
5
State Goals 3 & 4
Objective: To express understanding
of folktales (students can write about prior knowledge).
Expand and master vocabulary
Enrich reading by making connections with modern heroes.
Pocedure: Folktales
Folktales,
fairy tales,
Lesson
6
State Goals 1 & 2
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Objective: To express understanding
of fables (students can write about prior knowledge
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Procedure: Aesop's
Fabels
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Lesson
7
State Goals 1 & 2
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Objective: To express understanding
of legends (students can write about prior knowledge)
Procedure: Legends
& Myths in Cornwall
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Lesson
8
State Goals
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Objective:
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Procedure: Final exam
