1. Isaac School District No.5
ELAS Thematic Unit Overview Grade 3 – Unit 6
2012-2013
Unit 6: Amazing Adventures with Dragons, Gods, and Giants
DURATION: Six Weeks
In this unit, students read fantasies, adventure poetry, mythology, and informational texts about ancient Greece and ancient Rome.
Beginning with fantasy stories and poems about dragons, students learn to summarize and illustrate chapters, seeing how they are
building blocks to the ending, They record themselves reading fluently an assigned chapter (i.e., with a video camera or tape recorder).
They combine the recording with their illustrated chapter summaries to create a multimedia presentation. They will also hear a variety of
myths, both Greek and Roman, and read a book based on Homer’s The Odyssey. Finally, students will research an Olympic sport and
compare it to an Olympic sport in the days of ancient Greece.
Essential Questions: Vocabulary:
How is literature affected by culture? fantasy
mythology
Essential Learning: narrative poem
summary
Mythological stories provide moral lessons
that teach people how to get along, and
know right from wrong.
The ancient civilizations of Greece and
Rome contributed much to world literature.
Distributed Resources Aligned to Unit 6:
The BFG (Dahl)
My Father’s Dragon (Gannett)
D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths (Parin d’Aulaire)
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