Activity 7A: Sleepwalking Around the World: An Exploration of Sleep Folktales Topic: Sleep Part of: Unit: ZZZZzzzWorld: Exploring Sleep

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Resource

Sleep Walking Around the World (Web based)

Keywords

culture, cultural, folktale, sleep

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Key Concepts

folktale, genre, sleep, summary, inference, compare/contrast, theme, culture, similarities, differences, main idea, supporting details, reflection

Process Skills Utilized

summarizing, paraphrasing, making inferences, drawing conclusions, differentiating, comparing & contrasting, analyzing, representing, justifying, providing text evidence

Intended Grade Level - 6-8

Objectives

Students will be able to:

• Examine culturally diverse folktales involving sleep.
• Paraphrase and summarize text to recall, inform, or organize ideas.
• Determine distinctive and common characteristics of cultures through wide reading.
• Draw inferences such as conclusions or generalizations and support them with text evidence and experience.
• Present organized statements, reports, and/or speeches using visuals or media to support meaning, as appropriate.

Activity Description

By exploring various folktales about sleep, students will examine thematic similarities and differences across texts. Students will construct summaries of their self – selected readings, highlighting each text’s main idea and relevant supporting details. Completion of the open-ended response questions will allow students to analyze various aspects of each reading using evidence from the text and their own experiences to support their position. Finally, students will be asked to reflect on what they have learned through their literary exploration by completing a personal reflection.

Activity Management Suggestions

Modifications
For students needing more assistance: Group these students with peers who can assist them during the activity. Check often for understanding.

For highly able students: Students may also be grouped with other students to provide peer assistance. Students may also work on the extension activities.

Extensions
Allow students to create a personal interactive journal highlighting their selected texts. Students should include information such as a brief summary of each piece, thematic similarities and differences, and their own personal reflections. Cultural implications of the readings should be included if appropriate. These journals could be created using one of the following programs:

• PowerPoint™
• Moviemaker™
• Studio 10 ™

References Used

SO SAY THE LITTLE MONKEYS by Nancy Van Laan; pictures by Yumi Heo. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c1998.

PRINCESS SONORA AND THE LONG SLEEP Gail Carson Levine; illustrated by Mark Elliott. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, c1999.

A BIG QUIET HOUSE: A YIDDISH FOLKTALE FROM EASTERN EUROPE retold by Heather Forest; illustrated by Susan Greenstein. Little Rock, Ark.: August House Little Folk, c1996.

WHY DUCKS SLEEP ON ONE LEG by Sherry Garland; illustrated by Jean and Mou-sien Tseng. New York: Scholastic, c1993.

THE COW IN THE HOUSE retold by Harriet Ziefert; illustrated by Emily Bolam. New York: Viking, 1997.

THE SQUEAKY DOOR retold by Margaret Read MacDonald; pictures by Mary Newell DePalma. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, c2006.

SLEEPLESS BEAUTY by Frances Minters; illustrated by G. Brian Karas. New York: Viking, 1996.

GOLDILOCKS AND THE THREE BEARS story adapted by Jane Jerrard; cover illustration by Sam Thiewes; book illustrations by Burgandy Niles. Lincolnwood, IL: HTS Books, c1993.

HOW SNOWSHOE HARE RESCUED THE SUN: A TALE FROM THE ARCTIC retold by Emery Bernhard; illustrated by Durga Bernhard. New York : Holiday House, c1993.

TUKO AND THE BIRDS: A TALE FROM THE PHILIPPINES by Shirley Climo; illustrated by Francisco X. Mora. New York: Henry Holt, 2007

GO TO SLEEP, GECKO!: A BALINESE FOLKTALE retold by Margaret Read MacDonald; illustrated by Geraldo Valério. Little Rock, Ark.: August House Little Folk, c2006.

THE BOY OF THE THREE-YEAR NAP retold by Diane Snyder; illustrated by Allen Say. New York, New York: Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books, c1993.

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