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English Language Arts and Literacy | Grade : 3
Strand - Reading Literature
Cluster - Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
[RL.3.9] - Compare and contrast the themes, settings, and plots of stories written by the same author about the same or similar characters (e.g., in books from a series).
- Character
Person who takes part in the action of a story or drama; may also be an animal or imaginary creature, especially in fables and early emergent reader texts. - Massachusetts Anchor Standards for Reading
- Narrative
Is designed to relate events or experiences; may be primarily imaginative, as in a short story or novel, or primarily factual, as in a newspaper account or a work of history. - Plot
Action or sequence of related events in a (usually fiction) narrative. Plot is usually a series of related incidents that builds and grows as the story develops. Plot lines commonly contain five basic elements: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution or denouement. See Conflict. - Setting
Time and place of the action in a narrative, drama, or poem. - Theme
Central message or abstract concept made concrete through representation in a literary text. Like a thesis, a theme implies a subject and predicate of some kind: for instance, not just vice as a standalone word, but a proposition such as Vice seems more interesting than virtue but turns out to be destructive. Sometimes a theme is directly stated in a work, and sometimes it is revealed indirectly. A single work may have more than one theme. See Main idea, Moral.
[RL.2.9] -
Compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story (e.g., Cinderella stories) by different authors or from different cultures.
[RL.4.9] -
Compare and contrast the treatment of similar themes and topics (e.g., opposition of good and evil) and patterns of events (e.g., the quest) in stories, myths, and traditional literature from different cultures.