Arts Integration Lesson Plan

Title: AI 4th Mythology Lesson

________________(Arts) Content Standard, Indicator(s),
and Objective(s):
Arts) Standard(s) Grade_4
__________ (Subject) Content Standard, Indicator(s), Objective(s):
Drama Content Standard #2: Acting by assuming roles and interacting in improvisations
a) Students imagine and clearly describe characters, their relationships, and their
environments
b) Students use variations of locomotor and nonlocomotor movement and vocal pitch,
tempo, and tone for different characters
c) Students assume roles that exhibit concentration and contribute to the action of
classroom dramatizations based on personal experience and heritage, imagination,
literature, and history.

Content Standard #5: Researching by finding information to support classroom

dramatizations
Achievement Standard:
a) Students communicate information to peers about people, events, time, and place
related to classroom dramatizations.
Content Standard #7: Analyzing and explaining personal preferences and constructing
meanings from classroom dramatizations and from theatre, film, television, and
electronic media productions
Achievement Standard:
a) Students identify and describe the visual, aural, oral, and kinetic elements of
classroom dramatizations and dramatic performances
b) Students explain how the wants and needs of characters are similar to and different
from their own
c) Students articulate emotional responses to and explain personal preferences about
the whole as well as the parts of dramatic performances

Achievement Standard:

Connected Objective(s) (Connecting the two content areas):

Library Media Essential Curriculum Objectives

1.0 Define and Refine Problem or Question: Students will be able to follow
an inquiry process to define a problem, formulate questions, and refine
either or both to meet a personal and/or assigned information need.
(AASL 21st 1)
4.0 Interpret Recorded Data/Information: Students will be able to follow an
inquiry process to interpret recorded data/information to create new
understandings and knowledge related to the information need in an ethical
manner. (AASL 21st 2)

6.0 Appreciate Literature and Life-long Learning: Students will be able to

demonstrate an appreciation of literature and multimedia as a reflection of
human experience and use the inquiry process for life-long learning. (AASL
21st 4)

ELA Genre Essential Question

What are the specific characteristics of a legend? What kinds of settings,
characters, and plots do we find in legends?

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4.3
Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing
on specific details in the text (e.g., a character's thoughts, words, or
actions).
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.4
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text,
including those that allude to significant characters found in mythology
(e.g., Herculean).
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4.7
Make connections between the text of a story or drama and a visual or oral
presentation of the text, identifying where each version reflects specific
descriptions and directions in the text.
Fluency:
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.4.4
Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.4.4.a
Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.4.4.b
Read grade-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate,
and expression on successive readings.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.4.4.c
Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding,
rereading as necessary.

Description of Lesson/Activities:
Pose problem: What kind of characters do we find in mythology? How do we
use these character traits to describe people in our current society?

Information needed to answer question:

Brainstorm what we need to answer this question (Think Pair Share with
post it?)
A story
 Characters
Character traits

List the characters on white board

Each table discusses what traits the characters have (each table is assigned
a character) Share out.

Write ideas on the white board.

Kinosphere
Act out the characters in the story from beginning to end

At the end, relate the character traits to people in our own school. Pose the
question: we have a person in our school who has powers similar to one of
our godswho is it, which god, what character trait?

Could write this on an exit ticket or discuss as a group.

Materials Needed: Book: Persephone, white board, lcd?, chimes and noise
stick to enter into theater, dry erase markers, exit ticket

If time, perform Readers Theater

Formative Assessment Strategies:

Acting out character traits; exit ticket connecting mythological traits with

people in society.

Summative Assessment Strategies:

Possible Extensions?:

Reflection: