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THE SEARCH FOR AUTHENTICITY: HUMANITIES GRADE 5

STEP 1. Goals, Understandings, and Skills

CONTENT STANDARDS

LONG RANGE TALENT GOAL

Reading Literature

RL.6.5 Analyze how a particular sentence, chapter, scene, of stanza fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the theme, setting, or plot.

Writing

W.5.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.

Students will use insight, creativity, and communication to create an original narrative that is authentic and timeless for any audience.

KEY UNDERSTANDINGS

1. Writers use archetypes, or universal patterns, to give narratives a timeless and authentic quality.

2. The Hero’s Journey is an archetypal narrative pattern that appears in many types of literature.

3. The specific settings, characters, and events in a narrative correspond with the developmental stages of the Hero’s Journey.

4. The Hero’s Journey framework can be used to create an original narrative with a timeless and authentic appeal.

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

· What makes some stories “ring true” for you?

· Why do you think that some stories have such a timeless appeal across different audiences?

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

Knowledge: Students will know

· How to define archetype

· How to define and identify the stages of the Hero’s Journey in a narrative.

· How to analyze narrative text in order to identify the settings, characters, and events that correspond to the components of the Hero’s Journey archetype.

Skills: Students will be able to

· Use effective techniques, descriptive details, and event sequencing to develop an original narrative.