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Neh: Edsit Ement: Animal Fables and Trickster Tales Lesson PlanNeh: Edsit Ement: Animal Fables and Trickster Tales Lesson Plan
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National Endowment for the Humanities
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3rd - 5th
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Neh: Edsit Ement: Animal Fables and Trickster Tales

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Animals and tricksters appear in folk tales from a wide variety of cultures, especially those with strong oral storytelling traditions. Use this lesson plan to introduce students to these characters and the lessons they were used to teach in their original cultures.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

compare and contrast, fables, folktales, trickster tales, aesop's fables

Additional Tags

animal fables, differences among literary works, differences between literary works, multicultural literature, similarities among literary works, similarities and differences among literary works, similarities between literary works, similarity difference among literary work, edsitement, national endowment for the humanities, fable

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

Common Core

RL.3.2 RL.3.6 RI.5.6 RL.4.9 RL.5.9 RL.3.9 RL.4.6 RL.3.4 L.4.5.b L.5.5.b

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