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Momotaro Lesson Plans
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Students create a children's book version of the Japanese folk story "Momotaro Boy of the Peach" and present the story to elementary students. In this children's book lesson, students design their book to explain to American children the Japanese culture. After meeting the elementary children, students survey teachers on children's books. Students then redesign traditional teaching aids to better implement the telling of the story.
Primary readers investigate several comprehension skills in the ten lessons of this unit. Forming opinions about stories, comparing stories to each other, using Venn Diagrams, and applying the ideas from a story to real life situations constitute the main thrust. They will be able to recall, explain, and identify main details. Furthermore, they will identify parts of a story. Various familiar fiction pieces are recommended along with nonfiction.
Students look carefully at a slide of medieval relief sculpture. They make up a story about what is depicted in a medieval sculpture and draw pictures to illustrate what they have written.
Students build a variety of comprehension skills through the nine lessons of this unit. Picturing events, monitoring understanding during reading, forming questions, and summarizing stories form the core of the lessons being taught in this unit.
Students listen and respond to poems about rain. Then they review the continent of Asia and the country of Japan. They listen to a Japanese folktale about a peach boy. Next they listen to a story from Germany about musicians.
Fifth graders explore Native American and Japanese myths, legends and folktales that reflect other customs and cultures. They identify the characteristics of literary forms and the plots and characters using a variety of activities and discussions.
Students discuss the various continents. They explore the seven continents and the four oceans. They recall and identify Asia as the largest continent in the world. Students color a map of Asia.
Students will use these lessons to learn different concepts and increase literacy in general. This is really a list of different curriculum activities that are mapped throughout a single school year.
