Introduction

This lesson was designed by Chris Kaiser, Grace Smith, and Jeannie Brousseau for 4th grade students in The Grosse Pointe Public School System, Grosse Pointe, Michigan.

In this lesson, students will read XX legends, complete a legend analysis, and then write their own legend.

Learners

This lesson is anchored in fourth grade language arts and involves social studies and technology to a lesser extent. The lesson can be extended to other grade levels.

Prior to beginning this lesson, fourth grade students will have learned:

Curriculum Standards

Language Arts Standards Addressed:

• W.GN.04.01 Write a narrative piece (e.g., myth/legend, fantasy, adventure) creating relationships among setting, characters, theme, and plot.

Social Studies Standards Addressed:

• W.GN.04.03 Write a narrative piece (e.g., myth/legend, fantasy, adventure) creating relationships among setting, characters, theme, and plot.

Technology Standards Addressed:

• Using Information Technologies: Content Standard 2: All students will use technologies to input, retrieve, organize, manipulate, evaluate, and communicate information.

Process

Process description given to students on the student page + teacher details

Lesson organization + length of time.

If students are divided into groups, provide guidelines on how you might do that.

If there are misconceptions or stumbling blocks that you anticipate, describe them here and suggest ways to get around them.

What skills does a teacher need in order to pull this lesson off? Is it easy enough for a novice teacher? Does it require some experience with directing debates or role plays, for example?

Resources Needed

Evaluation

Conclusion

Summary, value of the lesson, etc.

Credits & References

Sources of any images, music or text, links back to the original source.

List any books and other analog media.