Appendix: Implementing Third Grade ELA Common Core State Standards, California Social Studies Standards, Art Standards
This unit will focus on the following Reading Literature standards: R.L3.3: Describe characters in a story and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events and R.L. 3.6: Distinguish their own point of view from that of the narrator or those of the characters. Trickster is based on the character of tricksters who changed events around them based on the choices they made. While analyzing this, students will also work with how the characters’ points of view could differ from the narrator and from the other characters.
As students perform activities involving narratives and writing pieces they focus on these writing standards: W.3.1: Write opinion pieces on topics of texts, supporting a point of view with reasons; and W3.3: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details; and clear event sequences. In this unit, students will be writing narratives based on their own trickster tales, as well as opinion pieces describing their points of view.
Through various cooperative-learning strategies involving partner and group work, students develop social skills, respectful interactions, and collaboration with peers bringing in Speaking and Listening Standards: SL.3.1 Engaged effectively in a range of collaborative discussions with diverse partners on great three topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and SL.3.3 Ask and answer questions about information from the speaker, offering appropriate elaboration and detail.
As this unit is integrated through social studies, the main History and Social Science standards that this unit focuses on are: 3.2.1. Describe national identities, religious beliefs, customs, and various folklore traditions. 3.2.2. Discuss the ways in which physical geography, including climate, influenced how the local Indian nations adapted to their natural environment (e.g., how they obtained food, clothing, tools). 3.1.1. Identify geographical features in their local region (e.g., deserts, mountains, valleys, hills, coastal areas, oceans, lakes). 3.1.2. Trace the ways in which people have used the resources of the local region. 3.2 Students describe the American Indian nations in their local region long ago and in the recent past. As students read the folktales, not only they will learn about how Indigenous people lived in the past, but also how they depended on nature and environment for their resources.
This unit combines art and text together, therefore focusing on the following Art standards, 3.0 Historical and Cultural Context: students analyze the role and development of the visual arts in past and present cultures throughout the world, noting human diversity as it relates to the visual arts and artists. 3.1 Compare and describe various works of art that have a similar theme and were created at different time periods. 3.4 Identify and describe objects of art from different parts of the world observed in visits to a museum or gallery (e.g., puppets, masks, containers).
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