ELD 3
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Journal Topic
 Write about one of easiest decisions you have made
in your life.
 Write a least one paragraph.
 You will have 10 minutes.
 We will share afterwards
Focus Lesson
 Reading Comprehension- Test Taking Strategies
 Lesson 1
 1. Test Taking Strategy #1 Read the questions
carefully circling the key words. Make sure you
know what the question is asking!!!!
 Test Taking Strategy #2 Begin with the title, read
the passage throughly at least two times. Make a
mental picture of what is being read.
Focus Lessons Cont.
 Test Taking Strategy #3 Read the first question and
return to the passage and identify the answer or
clues that support the possible answer.
 Test Taking Strategy #4 Return to the question and
eliminate the wrong answer.
 Test Taking Strategy #5 Buble the correct answer.
 Test Taking Strategy #6 Repeat steps three through
five for the remainder of the questions.
Now lets try them
Objective
 Students will review their academic vocabulary.
 Students will learn what a folk tale is and will be
able to recognize the characteristics.
 Standards: 3.1 Analyze characteristics of subgenres
(e.g., satire, parody, allegory, pastoral) that are used
in poetry, prose, plays, novels, short stories, essays,
and other basic genres.
Vocabulary
 Confident
Shock
 Convince
Tragedy
 Doubt
Worthless
 Foolish
 Nerves
Folk Tale

A folk tale is a simple story that has been shared
and told to many people over the years. Folk tales
usually reflect the culture they came from.

Nasruddin Hodja is a popular character in Middle
Eastern tales. Sometimes he is a fool, but sometimes
he is wise. He is known by different names
throughout the Middle East.
Characteristics of a Folk Tale
 1. Folk Tales begin with “Once upon a time”, “Long, long
ago”, etc.
 2. Three characters, 3 tasks, and 3 events appear in Folk Tales.
 3. Folk Tales have good and bad characters.
 4. Everyday people and/or animals are the characters in Folk
Tales.
 5. The good characters in Folk Tales have a problem to solve.
 6. Phrases are repeated in Folk Tales. For example: “Mirror,
mirror, on the wall…”.
 7.Folk Tales have happy endings
One in a Million a Middle
Eastern Folk Tale
 1. What kind of character is easy to convince
or trick? (think back to The Open Window)
 2 . What kind of character do you think Hodja
might be?
 3. Do the people here use cars? Do they buy
and sell things as we do?
 What kind of character was Hodja? How could you
tell?
Analyze
One in a Million
 1. Explain Why does Hodja spend so much money
to buy the donkey?
 2. Vocabulary How does the donkey’s new owner
convince people that the animal is valuable?
3. Analyze Literature: Folk Tale- Provide two details
you learned about Middle Eastern culture from this
folk tale.
Homework for the week.
 Grammar- Fragments
 Fragments- an incomplete sentence
Summary
 In your own words tell me what is a folk tale and
what are the characteristics of it?
 Remember each sentence starts with a capital and
ends with a punctuation mark. (., ?, !) I do not want
to see any fragments.