What is Folklore?
Organizational Information:
Grade: 3
Unit: Trip Around the World
Lesson Number: 1
Time Required: 40 min
Content: ELA
Big Ideas
Enduring Understanding:
Students will understand that the environment and culture affects the teachings of a
community.
Essential Question:
How does a story represent the culture in which it was written by?
Standards Addressed:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.2
Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures;
determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed
through key details in the text.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.3
Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain
how their actions contribute to the sequence of events
engageNY S.S 3.4
Each community or culture has a unique history, including heroic figures, traditions,
and holidays.
 3.4a People in world communities use legends, folktales, oral histories,
biographies, and historical narratives to transmit cultural histories from one
generation to the next.
 Students will examine legends, folktales, oral histories, biographies, and
historical narratives to learn about the important individuals and events of
each selected world community.
 Students will examine symbols of each selected world community.
Objectives and Assessments:
Objective 1:
Students will be able to define the overall category of folklore.
Assessment 1:
Students will have the definition written on folklore sheet.
Objective 2:
Students will analyze fables for meaning.
Assessment 1:
Students will correctly identify the meaning of each fable.
Materials
Students:
Print out for definitions
Aesop’s Fables #146
Teacher:
Student’s supplies
Prep:
Preparation for the lesson:
Have power point available and set up before lesson.
Learning Activities
Intro:
Invite the class to listen and participate. Tell them you are going to read them a
short story that has a secret message. They need to figure out the meaning. After
hearing the story they can read it to themselves if they need more information.
Step by Step Explanation of Activities:
Activity 1: Read the story aloud. Have students give you their ideas and help sort out
for moral of story. After reading have story on power point.
Activity 2: Introduce this as a fable. Tell the students the definition of a fable.
Discuss the definition. Introduce the idea of folklore and what the definition of
Folklore is. Give students the definition sheets, and fill out the page for “Fables”
Activity 3: Give each student 3 fables and have them identify the moral or lesson of
the story.
Closer:
Introduce the next lesson. (Building a suite case)