Lesson Plan on Myths, Folktales, and Legends Use this in the classroom to teach your lesson, use it when you teach, if you need a cross curricula project or send it home with the student if they are absent the day you cover myths, folktales, and/or legends. Grade? This lesson plan would be great for eighth grade or above; however, sixth and seventh grade may could concentrate on *animals in myths or another aspect of this. Beware some of the animals in myths may not be appropriate for younger students. Goal: To provide an understanding of and the background knowledge for the concepts of these different types of literature. Objectives: - Students will be able to compare and contrast characteristics of folktales, myths, and legends. Students will be familiar with some literature representative of all three types. Students will appreciate literature more having some background knowledge and history as a foundation to understanding it.
"Therefore, even the lover of myth is in a sense a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonders." Aristotle A myth is fiction something which is untrue. Mythology often addresses the theme of good conquering over evil. Scholars of mythology usually define a myth as a kind of story which attempts to interpret some aspect of the world around us. Robert W. Brockway, in his book | |
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