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Arapaho Truths: Wyoming's Native Americans

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Title:

 Arapaho Truths: Wyoming's Native Americans

URL:

 https://aptv.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/arapaho-truths-video-northern-arapaho/wyoming-native-americans/

Content Source:

 PBS
Type: Audio/Video

Overview:

The Northern Arapaho of the Wind River Indian Reservation are storytellers. In an effort to pass their culture to the next generation, the elders tell the children four traditional stories. Using clay animation, shadow puppets, painting, drawing, and performance, the children make the stories come to life.

LESSON OBJECTIVES:

Students will investigate how traditional teaching and the passing on of knowledge and wisdom are done through storytelling.

Content Standard(s):
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 4
19. Compare and contrast the treatment of similar themes in stories, myths, and traditional literature from different cultures.

a. Determine and state an implied theme, explicit theme, or life lesson from a myth, story, or other traditional literature.

b. Analyze a common or shared theme and its development in stories, myths, and/or other traditional literature.
Unpacked Content
Teacher Vocabulary:
19.
  • Compare
  • Contrast
  • Treatment
  • Theme
  • Stories
  • Myths
  • Traditional literature
  • Cultures
19a.
  • Implied theme
  • Explicit theme
  • Life lesson
  • Myth
  • Story
  • Traditional literature
19b.
  • Analyze
  • Theme
  • Myth
  • Traditional literature
Knowledge:
19. Students know:
  • Compare means tell how things are alike or similar, and contrast means tell how things are different.
  • Theme is the main, recurring idea in a text, and there are common themes in literary text.
  • A myth is a type of traditional literature, that often explains the early history of a people or some natural or social phenomenon, that typically involves supernatural beings or events.
  • Culture is the customs or institutions of a particular nation, people, or another social group.
19a.
  • An implied theme is not directly stated in the text, while an explicit theme is directly stated in the text.
  • Myths, stories, and other types of traditional literature were often written with the purpose of teaching a life lesson.
19b.
  • An author develops a theme by including specific details in the text to help the reader identify and understand the theme.
  • There are common, or universal, themes that frequently appear in literary text.
Skills:
19. Students are able to:
  • Identify the theme in stories, myths, and traditional literature from different cultures.
  • Compare and contrast the treatment of similar themes in literature from different cultures.
19a.
  • Identify an implied theme, explicit theme, or life lesson from a myth, story, or another type of traditional literature.
  • State the implied theme, explicit theme, or life lesson from a myth, story, or another type of traditional literature.
19b.
  • Identify the common theme in various types of traditional literature.
  • Analyze how the author developed the theme throughout the literature.
Understanding:
19. Students understand that:
  • Literature often includes universal (common) themes than can help the reader better understand other perspectives and cultures.
19a.
  • Sometimes an author will state the theme or life lesson in the text, while other times the reader must use clues and details from the text to infer the theme or lesson.
  • Myths and traditional literature were often written with the purpose of teaching life lessons.
19b.
  • Literature often includes universal (common) themes, and the author suggests the theme of the text by including particular details about characters or events.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 5
23. Determine and analyze themes of various culturally-diverse literary texts, supporting analysis with textual evidence.

a. Analyze common themes of diverse texts with support from textual evidence.

b. Summarize a story or drama, describing how the plot unfolds and how characters respond to challenges or change their thoughts and actions and citing textual evidence.
Unpacked Content
Teacher Vocabulary:
23.
  • Determine
  • Analyze
  • Themes
  • Culturally-diverse literary text
  • Textual evidence
23a.
  • Theme
  • Diverse texts
  • Textual evidence
23b.
  • Summarize
  • Plot
  • Characters
  • Thoughts
  • Actions
  • Citing
  • Textual evidence
Knowledge:
23. Students know:
  • Theme is the main, recurring idea in a text.
  • An author develops a theme by including specific details in the text to help the reader identify and understand the theme.
  • There are common, or universal, themes that frequently appear in literary text.
23a.
  • There are common, or universal, themes that frequently appear in literary text.
23b.
  • A summary of a story or drama is a short statement that describes the main events of the plot and the actions of the primary characters.
Skills:
23. Students are able to:
  • Identify the themes of various culturally-diverse literary texts.
  • Analyze the themes of various culturally-diverse literary texts using text evidence.
23a.
  • Identify common themes in diverse texts.
  • Analyze the meaning of common themes from diverse texts using textual evidence.
23b.
  • Create a summary of a story or drama that includes the main plot events and describes how characters external or internal actions.
  • Cite textual evidence to support summary statements.
Understanding:
23. Students understand that:
  • Literature often includes universal (common) themes, and the author suggests the theme of the text by including particular details about characters or events.
  • They can demonstrate they understood the theme of a story by using text evidence to support their identification.
23a.
  • Literature often includes universal (common) themes, and they can show they identified the theme by supporting their analysis with text evidence.
23b.
  • A summary is a short explanation of the most important elements from a text, and statements in a summary should be supported with textual evidence.
Tags: Analyze, Culturally Diverse, Culture, Diverse Literature, Traditional Stories
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Comments

This resource includes a five-day lesson plan for use in classrooms.

NOTE: Spanish closed captions are also available.

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Author: Jessica Byrd
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