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Lesson 8: Caribbean Folkways through Short Stories
Language Arts Benchmarks (Next Generation Sunshine State Standards):
LA.910.1.6.1: Relate new vocabulary to familiar words.
LA.910.1.7.2: The student will analyze the author’s purpose and/or perspective in a
variety of texts and understand how they affect meaning;
LA.910.1.7.3: The student will determine the main idea or essential message in grade-
level or higher texts through inferring, paraphrasing, summarizing, and identifying
relevant details;
LA.910.1.7.6: The student will analyze and evaluate similar themes or topics by different
authors across a variety of fiction and nonfiction selections;
LA.910.1.7.8: The student will use strategies to repair comprehension of grade-
appropriate text when self-monitoring indicates confusion, including but not limited to
rereading, checking context clues, predicting, note-making, summarizing, using graphic
and semantic organizers, questioning, and clarifying by checking other sources.
LA.910.2.1.1: The student will analyze and compare historically and culturally significant
works of literature, identifying the relationships among the major genres (e.g., poetry,
fiction, nonfiction, short story, dramatic literature, essay) and the literary devices unique
to each, and analyze how they support and enhance the theme and main ideas of the
text;
LA.910.2.1.1: The student will analyze and compare historically and culturally significant
works of literature, identifying the relationships among the major genres (e.g., poetry,
fiction, nonfiction, short story, dramatic literature, essay) and the literary devices unique
to each, and analyze how they support and enhance the theme and main ideas of the
text;
LA.910.2.1.5: The student will analyze and develop an interpretation of a literary work
by describing an author’s use of literary elements (e.g., theme, point of view,
characterization, setting, plot), and explain and analyze different elements of figurative
language (e.g., simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, symbolism, allusion,
imagery);
LA.910.2.1.8: The student will explain how ideas, values, and themes of a literary work
often reflect the historical period in which it was written;
Objectives: