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Lesson 1: The Stories That Preserve Our History and Culture

California CCSS: Focus Standards

California CCSS: Supporting Standards

ELD Standards

In this lesson

Today you will

Explore how knowledge is recorded and shared by drawing connections between the central ideas in a folktale and an informational article.
Exchange ideas and use observation and inference sentence frames with evidence to explain how storytelling connects to memory, identity, and survival.
Compare and contrast how a folktale and an informational article explain why stories matter.

Essential Questions

How does memory help us understand who we are, and what is lost when memory disappears? How do stories help communities survive change and imagine a future worth building?