Marco Polo Language Arts Lesson Plans

These Lesson Plans are cross curricular in nature but are based on the following NJCCC Standards for Language Arts

Language Arts Standards 

 Grades 5 -8 

3.1 - ALL STUDENTS WILL UNDERSTAND AND APPLY THE KNOWLEDGE OF SOUNDS, LETTERS, AND WORDS IN WRITTEN ENGLISH TO BECOME INDEPENDENT AND FLUENT READERS, AND WILL READ A VARIETY OF MATERIALS AND TEXTS WITH FLUENCY AND COMPREHENSION.

3.1 Look in the Mythic Mirror: A Funny Thing Happened When...
3.1 Don Quixote: Discovering Opera: Operatic Conventions
3.1 Aesop and Anase: Animal Fables and Trickster Tales
3.1 Don Quixote: Discovering Opera: Why Do These Characters Act This Way?
3.1 Look in the Mythic Mirror: Piecing it All Together
3.1 Predicting
3.1 Read and Respond
3.1 Sequencing Events in a Myth
3.1 Star-Spangled Banner Interview
3.1 Sorting and Classifying Mythological Characters
3.1 Language and Runaway Slave Ads
3.1 Your Family Anthology
3.1 Oceans: A Fact Haiku
3.1 Aesop and Anase: Animal Fables and Trickster Tales
3.1 More or Less in the Myth
3.1 Myth Review and Evaluation
3.1 Predicting
3.1 Read and Respond
3.1 Sequencing Events in a Myth
3.1 Story Maps
3.1 Sorting and Classifying Mythological Characters
3.1 Language and Runaway Slave Ads

3.2 - ALL STUDENTS WILL WRITE IN CLEAR, CONCISE, ORGANIZED LANGUAGE THAT VARIES IN CONTENT AND FORM FOR DIFFERENT AUDIENCES AND PURPOSES.

3.2 A Tale of Two Stories
3.2 Keeping a Journal about Myths
3.2

Failure: The Good and the Bad
3.2 Biography
3.2 Jamestown Fort: Finding History
3.2 The Jamestown Newsletter
3.2 I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Someone a Letter
3.2  Where I Come From
3.2 Greek Mythology: Cultures and Art
3.2 Make a Wampum Belt
3.2 Newspaper of the Colonial Era
3.2 Mythology: Flights of Fantacy
3.2 A Trip to Wonderland
3.2 Ancient Flood Stories
3.2 The Myth Club
3.2 Oral Traditions in Africa
3.2 The Little Red Hen

3.3   ALL STUDENTS WILL SPEAK IN CLEAR, CONCISE, ORGANIZED LANGUAGE THAT VARIES IN CONTENT AND FORM FOR DIFFERENT AUDIENCES AND PURPOSES

3.3 Your Special Town
3.3 World of Haiku
3.3 Folktale Theatre
3.3 Make a Wampum Belt
3.3 All Together Now: Collaborations in Poetry Writing and Recitation
3.3 Mountains: A Drama Exploration
3.3 Town Along the Chesapeake Bay
3.3 Historical Figure: A Monologue
3.3 "One Giant Leap for Mankind": Revisiting the Apollo 11 Mission
3.3  Greeting Friends From Other Places
3.3  Keeping a Journal about Myths
3.3 

Failure: The Good and the Bad
3.3  Biography
3.3  Jamestown Fort: Finding History
3.3  The Jamestown Newsletter
3.3  Teachnet.com - Lesson Plans: Language Arts - Reading: Not Your Same Old Book Report
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3.4 - ALL STUDENTS WILL LISTEN ACTIVELY TO INFORMATION FROM A VARIETY OF SOURCES IN A VARIETY OF SITUATIONS.  

3.4 Childhood Through the Looking Glass
3.4 The Story of Jack and the Bank Stalk
3.4 An Owl in the Woods
3.4 The Myth Club
3.4 Oral Traditions in Africa
3.4 Listening to History
3.4 Fairy Tales, Then and Now
3.4 All Together Now: Collaborations in Poetry Writing and Recitation
3.4 Choral Speaking: The Frog on the Log
3.4 Oral Traditions in Africa
3.4 Vocabulary Charade Game
3.4 All Together Now: Collaborations in Poetry Writing and Recitation

3.5 - ALL STUDENTS WILL ACCESS, VIEW, EVALUATE, AND RESPOND TO PRINT, NONPRINT, AND ELECTRONIC TEXTS AND RESOURCES.

3.5 Dr. King's Dream
3.5 The Emperor's New Clothes: Freeze Frame
3.5 Finding Clues in a Picture
3.5 Vocabulary Charade Game
3.5 Picture This
3.5 Murals, Memories and Making Art
3.5 Finding Clues in a Picture
3.5 Vocabulary Charade Game
3.5 Mural of a Piscataway Village
3.5 Light in the Storm: Civil War Music
3.5 Native American Arts - A Center Study
3.5 Every Picture Tells a Story K-4

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