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English Language Arts and Literacy | Grade : 4
Strand - Reading Literature
Cluster - Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
[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.
- Massachusetts Anchor Standards for Reading
- Myth
Narrative passed down through generations, intended to help explain why the world is the way it is. See Traditional literature - 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. - 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.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).
[RL.5.9] -
Compare and contrast stories in the same genre (e.g., mysteries or adventure stories) on their approaches to similar themes and topics.