1. Discuss the characteristics of a tall tale.
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Discuss the characteristics of a tall tale.
Activating Prior knowledge
Have students discuss any tall tale that they have read or heard. Based on what has been taught already they might have heard about Pecos Bill and Paul Bunion. Ask a few of the students to share their ideas.

2. Learning Objective: Identify the structural characteristics of a legend.
RC 3.1
Do gestures with students.

3. What are identifying today?
Identify the structural characteristics of a legend.
CFU: Call on non volunteer
What will we identify today?- non volunteer
Identify, to look for. Characteristics – parts that all such stories have.
Lets say the word together, Identify, Characteristics

4. Legends
Legends are about people and their actions or deeds. The people lived in more recent times and are mentioned in history. The stories are told for a purpose and are based on facts, but they are not completely true.
Characteristics include:
Has a hero or popular character.
The hero is real but some parts of the story are not completely true. They have been stretched or expanded upon.
Handed down through generations.
Examples: Legend of King Arthur and the Knight’s of the Round Table, Robin Hood, Davy Crocket, Daniel Boone
Concept development
Provide definition of a legend.
Tell students that it involves a hero or popular character. The characters are real although what they may have done had been stretched or expanded upon.
CFU: what is a legend
CFU: How can you tell a legend from other types of tales.

5. Why is it important to know structural characteristics of a legend?
It will help us to become readers by strengthening our comprehension.
Importance
Read the importance and have students offer other reasons: call on volunteers
Elaborate on meaning
CFU: Why is this important
Part 2 of importance: Can any one think if other reasons why this will be important? volunteers

6. Davy Crockett
Who is the hero?
What was the heroic act?
When I was 3 years old, I out-wrestled a big old bear. That bear wandered into the kitchen one day and started to eat up the jam and scared mom half to death. So I grabbed him in a bear hug with my mighty twelve-inch arms, and I squeezed and I squeezed and I squeezed until that bear just fell down, kerplunk! Just like that, wasn’t nothing to it. Saved mom from the bear! So my folks knew right than that I was cut out to be a wild frontiersman, a ring-tailed roarer who’s part horse and part alligator with a bit o snappin’ turtle thrown in.”
Read the story to students.
Click to ask first question: Who is the hero?
Click to ask second question: what was the heroic act?
Click to ask third question: What is the effect of the heroic act?
What is the effect of the heroic act?

7. Legend Davy Crockett and the bear What is effect of heroic act?
Who is the hero?
What is the heroic act?
What is effect of heroic act?
Use Tree Map to set up the three question.
Do think out loud to complete the three map
Yes Davy Crockett and the bear is a legend,.
His mother lived and
Help Davy with other
Adventures.
Saved mom from a
bear.
Davy Crockett
Legend

8. Legend? Read the text. Ask yourself, “Is there a hero?
What was the heroic act?
What was the effect of the heroic act?
THE ANTS were spending a fine winter's day drying grain collected in the summertime. A Grasshopper, perishing with famine, passed by and earnestly begged for a little food. The Ants inquired of him, "Why did you not treasure up food during the summer?' He replied, "I had not leisure enough. I passed the days in singing." They then said in derision: "If you were foolish enough to sing all the summer, you must dance supperless to bed in the winter."
Review steps by demonstrating each step with the example on the side
Not a legend but a tall tale.
CFU: What are the characteristic of a legend?
Why is this a tall tale?
Not a legend but a Fable as there is talking animals and it teaches a leson.

9. King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
All the knights in the country wanted to be soldiers for King Arthur. The bravest of them were allowed to sit at the round table. They were known as the ‘Knights of the Round Table’. Because it was round, the positions of all the seats were equal. No-one could say they were more important because they sat at the end.
The Saxons were still attacking the British.
Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table fought against the Saxons in many battles. They finally defeated them at the Battle of Mount Badon.
Everyone was happy and felt very safe again.
Arthur thought he was doing a better job than the Roman Emperor in Italy. He decided to take his army to Europe. After a lot of fighting, the Emperor agreed to give the western half of Europe to Arthur.
Back in Britain, the Knights of the Round Table had lots of adventures. Some rescued princesses. Some fought dragons or bad knights.
Read the text.
Ask yourself, “Is there a hero?
What was the heroic act?
What was the effect of the heroic act?
Review steps by demonstrating each step with the example on the side
CFU: discuss with your partners as you complete your tree map. Write your answer on the whiteboard

10. Legend Made the British Saved the British King Arthur
King Arthur and the Knight
Of the Round Table
Who is the hero?
What is the heroic act?
What is effect of heroic act?
Go through the tree map and make decision as to if it is a legend or not.
Made the British
People feel safe once
More.
Saved the British
People From their
Enemies.
King Arthur
Knights of Round
Table
Legend

11. What are the structural characteristics of a legend?
Why is it important to know the structural characteristics of a legend?
Casey Jones
Read the text.
Ask yourself, “Is there a hero?”
What is the heroic act?
What is the effect of the heroic act?
CFU: What are the structural characteristics of a legend?
CFU: Why is it important to know the structural characteristics of a legend?
3 . Read the three steps/questions to remind students what they are looking for.
4. Using your white boards, write legend or not a legend.

12. What is effect of heroic act?
Casey Jones
Who is the hero?
What is the heroic act?
What is effect of heroic act?
Print out for students’ use.