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Lesson 1: The Stories That Preserve Our History and Culture
California CCSS: Focus Standards
California CCSS: Supporting Standards
ELD Standards
In this lesson
Today you will
Explore how knowledge is recorded and shared by drawing connections between the central ideas in a folktale and an informational article.
Exchange ideas and use observation and inference sentence frames with evidence to explain how storytelling connects to memory, identity, and survival.
Compare and contrast how a folktale and an informational article explain why stories matter.
Essential Questions
How does memory help us understand who we are, and what is lost when memory disappears? How do stories help communities survive change and imagine a future worth building?
Texts used in this lesson
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10 Things: Going Interstellar
NASA
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How We Have Turned Memories and Stories into Histories
Big History Project, adapted by Newsela staff
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How Wisdom Became the Property of the Human Race
Compiled by W. H. Barker and Cecilia Sinclair, in the book West African Folk-Tales.
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These Sci-Fi Visions for Interstellar Travel Just Might Work
Ramin Skibba and Les Johnson, Wired Magazine
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