1.Teaching notes: Rules for my life

 Source: http://ofcn.org/cyber.serv/academy/ace/soc/cecsst/cecsst023.html

• Lesson Idea: Students will share a fable and create rules for their life.
  
• Benchmarks for Lesson
  
  • Understands the defining characteristicsof literary forms
  • • Discuss origins and purposes of fables
      
  • Understands the basic story elements
    • Identify the elements of a fable
      
    • Identify the moral, theme, or lesson in a fable
      
  • Summarizes and paraphrases information in texts
    • Retell a story
      
    • Outlines information from text
      
  • Uses information from text to support opinions, predictions, and conclusions
    • Write a fable containing a moral
      
  • Write informative texts
    • Write a list of rules for life
      
  • Locate and read literature from web-based sources
    • Use web-based fables
      
  • Develop communications using technology
    • Write using a word processing tool
      
• Timing: Complete activity after reading Chapter 3.
  
• Book Connections: Brer Rabbit (page 17), Bud's Rules (pages 11, 18, 27), Lessons for life (page 79-80)
  
• Teacher Resources:
  Fable Writing Lesson
  
  
• Performance Assessments:
  Story Retelling Rubric, Fable Rubric
  
  
• Other Activity Ideas:
  • Paul Bunyan (page 27), add tall tales
    
  • Vampires and hornet (page 27-28), add scary stories
    
  
  
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