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    This lesson plan introduces second grade students to folktales. The teacher will have students discuss what they know about folktales and read the story "Anansi the Spider", a folktale from Ghana. As they read, students will identify elements of the story - like setting, characters, problem, and solution - and add them to a chart to understand what makes a folktale different from realistic fiction. After reading, the class will discuss the meaning and moral of the story. The goal is for students to recognize key characteristics of folktales.

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    This lesson plan introduces second grade students to folktales. The teacher will have students discuss what they know about folktales and read the story "Anansi the Spider", a folktale from Ghana. As they read, students will identify elements of the story - like setting, characters, problem, and solution - and add them to a chart to understand what makes a folktale different from realistic fiction. After reading, the class will discuss the meaning and moral of the story. The goal is for students to recognize key characteristics of folktales.

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    This lesson plan introduces second grade students to folktales. The teacher will have students discuss what they know about folktales and read the story "Anansi the Spider", a folktale from Ghana. As they read, students will identify elements of the story - like setting, characters, problem, and solution - and add them to a chart to understand what makes a folktale different from realistic fiction. After reading, the class will discuss the meaning and moral of the story. The goal is for students to recognize key characteristics of folktales.

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    Fables 1 - Anansi

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    This lesson plan introduces second grade students to folktales. The teacher will have students discuss what they know about folktales and read the story "Anansi the Spider", a folktale from Ghana. As they read, students will identify elements of the story - like setting, characters, problem, and solution - and add them to a chart to understand what makes a folktale different from realistic fiction. After reading, the class will discuss the meaning and moral of the story. The goal is for students to recognize key characteristics of folktales.

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    Ariana Schachne

    Topic, class, and level: Fables #1: Getting Acquainted with Fables
    Essential Question(s): To what important concept, enduring understanding, or big idea in the
    discipline does this lesson connect?
    1. What is a folktale?
    Standards: MA, Common Core, WIDA or other Standards for this lesson or unit:
    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.2
    Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central
    message, lesson, or moral.
    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.1
    Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate
    understanding of key details in a text.
    Materials and/or on-line resources to be used
    Anansi The Spider
    Anchor Chart of four categories: Setting, Character, Problem, Solution
    Activity
    1. (9:30-9:40) Write Folktale on the board--- think, pair, share about what they
    already know about this word. What is a folktale? Have you ever read any? What do
    you know about this already?
    2. Folk mean people. Folktale means stories about people. These are stories that come
    from different cultures around the world. They were started as stories that were
    told verbally. People have shared these stories with their children over time to
    explain things in the world around them and to teach lessons. Now we read the
    stories in books.
    3. For example, we are going to read Anansi The Spider. This story was told by the
    Ashanti people, which is in Africa
    a. Show a map of Africa, and then Ghana, and then the Ashanti
    4. I want you to start thinking about how a folktale is different than a realistic fiction
    book like Ivy and Bean or Because of Winn Dixie. We are going to try to decide what
    makes a folktale a folktale
    5. Throughout the book, you are going to pause me when we get to something that you
    want to add to our chart
    6. (9:40-9:50) Read the book and allow for students to comment on different sections
    a. Setting: In Ashanti land, unspecific, general and vague
    b. Characters: Names are descriptions
    c. Problem: Anansi got lost and eaten by a fish, so his sons went to go look for
    him; which son should get the prize
    d. Solution: Anansis sons helped find him and get him home safe. Nyame used
    his powers to try to find one son to give the prize too but they could not
    decide which son. They instead put the light into the sky, where it is today
    7. (9:50-10:00) What is the meaning of the story? What is the bright thing in the sky?
    8. How is a folktale different than a realistic fiction book?

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