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Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.

SWBAT revisit some of the classics, and reread several versions of the same fairy tales and folk tales from around the world in order to write their own adaptations to some of their favorite tales. The aims to use fairy tales as a vehicle for furthering Achievers’ abilities to write any kind of stories, and give Achievers more practice writing fiction. There will be a focus on rehearsing and planning for stories, paying careful attention to fairy tale language and structure through revising and elaborating, and crafting their own versions of an old tale.

Rubirc designed to score student annotations and evaluations of informational texts (RI.8.1, RI.8.6, and RI.8.8)

A rubric for grading mind maps created by students as they brainstorm subtopics for a research project.

Used for grading poems written by students. Standard 6: Students read, write, and view texts to examine the choices artists make and to reflect on how their choices affect their audiences. Standard 1: Students use the writing process to produce clear responses to writing tasks that fulfill a variety of purposes and address a variety of audiences.