Unit Plan: Studying Culture Through Folktales Grade: 2nd Duration: 10 Lessons (2 Weeks) Learning Objectives

Unit Plan: Studying Culture Through Folktales
Grade: 2nd
Duration: 10 Lessons (2 weeks)
Learning Objectives:
Students will be able to define culture as the traditions, beliefs, and art that are
shared by a group of people.
Students will be able to define folktales as a story passed down by a group of
people for many, many years. Students will be able to name folktales from three
different locations.
Students will be able to explain how folktales express culture by giving specific
examples of culture in folktales that express traditions, beliefs, or art of a specific
group of people.
Students will be able to analyze illustrations in folktales that depict the natural
environment and compare this depiction of the natural environment to that of
other folktales.
Key Concepts:
Culture: the traditions, beliefs, and art that is shared by a group of people.
Folktale: a story passed down by a group of people for many, many years.
Standards
Illinois Learning Standards connections (early elementary/late elementary)
SG 16: Understand events, trends, individuals and movements shaping the history
of Illinois, the United States and other nations.
o 16.D.1 (W) Identify how customs and traditions from around the world
influence the local community.
16.E.1 (W) Compare depictions of the natural environment that are found
in myths, legends, folklore and traditions.
SG 18: Understand social systems, with an emphasis on the United States.
o 18.A.1 Identify folklore from different cultures, which became part of the
heritage of the United States.
o 18.A.2 Explain ways in which language, stories, folk tales, music, media
and artistic creations serve as expressions of culture.
o
Common Core
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.2
o Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and
determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.7
o Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or
digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.
Studying Culture Through Folktales: List of Lessons

Introduction Lessons:
1. What is culture? What are Folktales?
Whole class discussion about the video What is Culture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_dbaugeRh8, and introduction to folktales through
the book Anansi the Spider: a Tale from the Ashanti by Gerald McDermott. How do
culture and folktales relate? Why are folktales important pieces of culture? Homework
activity is to interview family about their culture.
2. Field Trip to the Museum of Mexican Art
The class will be making a field trip to the Museum of Mexican Art so explore one
nations culture. Students will be asked to keep in mind what they learned the previous
day about culture and report back to the class in which ways they see traditions, beliefs
and art throughout the Museums exhibits.
3. How do folktales express culture?
Pair-square on the homework activity. Followed by buddy reading of an excerpt from the
folktale The Virgin of Guadalupe from the book Fiesta Femenina: Celebrating Women
in Mexican Folktale. Students will, in pairs, write notes about how culture is expressed in
this excerpt. Students will share ideas with another group of two.
Skill-Building and Concept-Building Lessons:
*4. Folktales express culture through traditions.
Read-aloud of The Talking Skull from A Pride of African Tales by Donna L.
Washington. Students will be analyzing ways that folktales express culture by looking for
ways that The Talking Skull expresses traditions. Students will look for expressions of
tradition through language and clothing.
5. Folktales express culture through beliefs and art
Students will re-read The Talking Skull and analyze ways that folktales express culture
by looking for ways that The Talking Skull expresses beliefs. Students will look for
expression of beliefs through religion. Using a similar worksheet from the previous day,
students will also be analyzing how this folktale expresses art through colors and
characters.
6. How do folktales express culture? -Practice
Using the folktales we have read so far, students will fill out a worksheet comparing the
three aspects of culture we have studied in folktales: traditions, beliefs, and art.
7. Compare folktales using pictures/illustrations that depict the natural environment
Students will compare pictures of the natural environment from the illustrations using
The Lizard and the Sun by Alma Flor Ada, A Pride of African Tales, and Anasi the
Spider: a Tale from the Ashanti
8.Lets hear from a real expert
At the beginning of the unit, communicate with families that we would like a visitor to
re-tell a family folktale. The folktale may be re-told in Spanish if the visitor feels more
comfortable. If we have more than one visitor, students will have the opportunity to hear
multiple examples of folktales from their community. Students will fill out worksheet
during visitors presentations making connections with what they have heard and what
have learned.
Culminating Lessons:
*9. Expert Groups & Jigsaw
Groups of five will be made into expert groups. Each group of five will receive a story
and study how the folktale expresses culture through traditions, beliefs, and art. Students
will then jigsaw to become the experts of their folktale and describe how it expresses
culture. Specifics on grouping are provided in the lesson plan.
10. Expert Groups Share
Going back into their original expert groups. Students will each have to present how their
folktale represented one aspect of culture. Jobs will be divided between the four students
to present. Students will share their expertise with the class.
*= in edTPA
Studying Culture Through Folktales: List of Assessments
Assessments from lessons:
o Worksheets
Final assessments
o Rubric used to grade final project
o Final test: short test paper & pencil test.

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