Masks and Aesop's fables

English Language Arts (2004)

Grade 1

• Goal 2: The learner will develop and apply strategies and skills to comprehend text that is read, heard, and viewed.
  • Objective 2.02: Demonstrate familiarity with a variety of texts (storybooks, short chapter books, newspapers, telephone books, and everyday print such as signs and labels, poems, word plays using alliteration and rhyme, skits and short plays).

Grade 3

• Goal 2: The learner will apply strategies and skills to comprehend text that is read, heard, and viewed.
  • Objective 2.03: Read a variety of texts, including:
    • fiction (short stories, novels, fantasies, fairy tales, fables).
    • nonfiction (biographies, letters, articles, procedures and instructions, charts, maps).
    • poetry (proverbs, riddles, limericks, simple poems).
    • drama (skits, plays).

Grade 4

• Goal 2: The learner will apply strategies and skills to comprehend text that is read, heard, and viewed.
  • Objective 2.03: Read a variety of texts, including:
    • fiction (legends, novels, folklore, science fiction).
    • nonfiction (autobiographies, informational books, diaries, journals).
    • poetry (concrete, haiku).
    • drama (skits, plays).

Kindergarten

• Goal 2: The learner will develop and apply strategies and skills to comprehend text that is read, heard, and viewed.
  • Objective 2.02: Demonstrate familiarity with a variety of types of books and selections (e.g., picture books, caption books, short informational texts, nursery rhymes, word plays/finger plays, puppet plays, reenactments of familiar stories).
• Goal 3: The learner will make connections through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology.
  • Objective 3.04: Use speaking and listening skills and media to connect experiences and text
    • listening to and re-visiting stories
    • discussing, illustrating, and dramatizing stories
    • discovering relationships.

Theatre Arts Education (2001)

Grade 1

• Goal 1: The learner will write based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature, and history.
  • Objective 1.02: Retell stories through guided dramatic play from a read-aloud text.

Grade 2

• Goal 1: The learner will write based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature, and history.
  • Objective 1.04: Dramatize, through guided dramatic expression, stories from a read-aloud text, poem, fairytale or other form of literature.

Grade 3

• Goal 1: The learner will write based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature, and history.
  • Objective 1.01: Participate in teacher-guided playwriting using simple characters, setting, conflict and resolution.
  • Objective 1.03: Infer lessons from multicultural stories, fairytales, tall tales, fables, legends and myths.

Kindergarten

• Goal 1: The learner will write based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature, and history.
  • Objective 1.02: Retell stories through guided dramatic play from text read aloud.

Visual Arts Education (2001)

Grade 2

• Goal 5: The learner will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
  • Objective 5.05: Begin to realize that there have been diverse cultures in the world and each culture has produced art.

Grade 3

• Goal 5: The learner will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
  • Objective 5.05: Understand there have been many different cultures in the world and each culture has produced art.

Kindergarten

• Goal 5: The learner will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
  • Objective 5.01: Recognize that people in many times and places have made art.