Writing

Lesson 5: Outsmarting Power

California CCSS: Focus Standards

Compare Percy and Soongoora and analyze how repeated tricks in “The Hare and the Lion" develop the idea that cleverness can challenge power and community rules.
Use comparative transitions, embedded evidence, and concluding language to write a cohesive explanatory paragraph that connects multiple examples across a text
Orally rehearse comparative sentences using signal words such as while, unlike, and both . . . and.

How does The Lightning Thief build on—and transform—traditional mythic ideas?

Short-Form Text

The Hare and the Lion

From Zanzibar Tales

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