"Yonder Mountain: A Cherokee Legend" Lessons and Activities
Unit 3, Lesson 13
"Yonder Mountain: A Cherokee Legend"
(click the picture to read the story with a video) http://ais.edu.lb/Library/Files/Uploaded%20Files/Grade%203%20-%20Yonder%20Mountain%20-%20A%20Cherokee%20Legend.pdf
Written by: Robert H. Bushyhead
Illustrated by: Kristina Rodanas
Genre: Legend Legends are retold through generations because they contain important messages about life, including a culture's values.
The story message, or lesson, of this legend is not directly stated. Instead, the author uses key details about the characters and plot events to convey the message.
To determine the story's message, the reader should think about the key details the author uses to describe why and how the story events unfold as they do.
Target Skill: Compare and Contrast - tell how details and ideas are alike or different
Target Strategy: Analyze / Evaluate - think about what you read, and form an opinion about it. As you read, you need to analyze, or carefully study, what the characters say and do. You should also evaluate, or form an opinion about, how the characters solve problems.
Analyzing and evaluating help readers understand what they read and decide what they thing of a selection.
Essential Question: How might people change after facing a challenge? Why are stories from different cultures important?
Big Idea: Facing a challenge helps us grow.
Phonics
Contractions with n't, 'd, 've
Social Studies Connection
Sequoyah
Trail of Tears
Cherokee Powwow, North Carolina
Yonder Mountain A Cherokee Legend
Gene Barretta: Zoola Palooza DVD intro
Guided Reading Books
Timid Boy and Mama Bear: A Pueblo Legend
The Lonely Man: An Abenaki Legend
LCS Summer Read Along "Lon Po Po"
Golden Fairy Tale Classics - Little Red Riding Hood
Vocabulary Review
Subject-Verb agreement Brain Pop Video
Skills
Grammar
Subject-Verb Agreement
-Verbs show action, and also tells when an action
happens
-Present tense is what is happening now; verbs in
the present tense have two forms.
-Add -s to the verb when the noun in the subject is
singular. Do no add -s to the verb when the noun in the subject is plural.
For example: A young man walks up a mountain. Two young men walk up a mountain.
-Add -es to verbs that end with s, sh, ch, or x when they
are used with a singular noun in the subject. Do not add -es when the noun in the subject is plural.
For example: Tom rushes up the mountain path. Tom and Roy rush up the moutain path.
-If a verb ends with consonant + y. Change the y to i and
add -es when the noun in the subject is singular. Do not change the verb when the noun in the subject is plural.
For example: She tries to sing well. We try to sing well.
Vocabulary Strategies
Homophones and Homographs
Homophones = words that only sound the same but have different spellings and meanings.
ex: steel and steal
Homographs = words that are spelled alike but have different meanings. Some are pronounced differently, too.
ex: fan and fan
wind and wind
Homophones/Homographs Flipchart- Yonder Mountain
Like Comparing Apples to Oranges
Introduction to Reading Skills: Compare and Contrast
Crocodiles and Alligators | Compare and Contrast | Third Gra
6th Grade Skills - Compare and Contrast
Reading Comprehension Strategies: Compare and Contrast
A Contraction Has An Apostrophe | Science of Reading | Phonics Song | EduTunes With Miss Jenny
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