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8.1.1 Listening and Responding: Oral Narratives - Myths
English · Grade 8 · 2 lessons in the design
What this covers
- Characters, key events and moral lessons in a myth
- Predicting from title or pictures; retelling a community myth
- Relating myth characters and events to real life and domestic tourism
What you will be able to do
- identify the characters in a given myth
- narrate the key events in a given myth
- explain the moral lesson in a set myth
- relate the characters in a myth to real life
- acknowledge the role/importance of oral literature in lifelong learning
Key questions
“How can you tell what is going to happen in a story?”
“How are the characters or events in the story related to the people or happenings around us?”
Lessons
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Characters and events in a myth
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizPredict from a title, listen to a teaching myth about a Kenyan lake, then list characters and retell the key events.
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Moral, real life and a place on the map
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizState the moral of the flamingo myth, relate characters to people you know, and link the story to a domestic-tourism site.