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Targeted Content Standards and Benchmarks
NCTE Language Arts Standards:
- Students read a wide range of print and nonprint texts to build an understanding of texts, of themselves, and of the cultures of the United States and the world.
- Students read a wide range of literature from many periods in many genres to build an understanding of the many dimensions of human experience.
- Students adjust their use of spoken, written, and visual language to communicate effectively with a variety of audiences and for different purposes.
- Students develop an understanding of and respect for diversity in language use, patterns, and dialects across cultures, ethnic groups, geographic regions, and social roles.
- Students use spoken, written, and visual language to accomplish their own purposes.
National Social Studies Standards:
- Students should understand how culture and experience influence people’s perceptions of places and regions.
- Students should understand the characteristics, distribution, and complexity of Earth’s cultural mosaics.
- Students should understand how to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial perspective.
Student Objectives
Students will be able to:
- Use comprehension strategies to read fairy tales from a variety of countries
- Describe geographical settings of stories, and plot these on a world map
- Compare and contrast fairy tales with similar themes from different countries
- Determine how culture impacts stories
- Analyze a character, and make connections to self with a character issues, and themes of the story
- Identify or summarize a sequence of events, main ideas, and supporting details in literary selections
- Predict future outcomes supported by the text
- Identify the qualities of the character (such as courage, cowardice, and ambition), and analyze the effect of these qualities on the plot and the resolution of the conflict
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