Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- The purpose and essential elements of legends, stories, and songs.
- Examples of legends, stories, and songs that contributed to United States' cultural history including American Indian Legends, African American Stories, Tall Tales and stories of Folk Heroes.
- Vocabulary: legends, stories, songs, cultural history.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Interpret legends, stories, and songs.
- Identify the purpose and essential elements of legends, stories, and songs.
- Identify the contribution that specific legends, stories, and songs had on the development of cultural history of the United States.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- There are legends, stories, and songs that have contributed to the development of the cultural history of the United States.
Vocabulary
- interpret
- legends
- stories
- songs
- contributed
- development
- cultural history
- tall tales
- folk heroes
