Central Focus: Through the use of a various versions of Cinderella storybooks from different parts of the world, students will be able to compare and contrast ideas, words, and texts and identify syntactic features and differences during the five English Language Arts courses integrated into these ESL interdisciplinary lessons. Students will be instructed to write informatively about the information gathered from the books. They will compare and contrast the stories and will be encouraged to synthesize new knowledge during this process. Essential literacy strategy: The key literacy strategy in this unit is how to read and identify the main ideas, details and implicit meanings in the versions of Cinderella storybooks from different parts of …show more content…
They will be encouraged to compare and contrast their findings in well-organized informative essays. Contents Objectives: 1. Students will be able to learn how the Cinderella story has been told in different parts of the world. 2. Students will be able to learn how to compare and contrast similarities and differences in ideas, things, and texts. 3. Students will be able to describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama. (e.g., a character's thoughts, words, or actions) 4. Students will be able to have an understanding of how people from different parts of the world adapt and practice new cultural customs or events from other countries. 5. Students will be able to learn about cultures of various countries such as traditional clothing of Cambodia Temple ruins of Angkor, various symbols of architectural design, and Khmer architecture. Language Objectives: 1. Students will be able to learn words and sentence expressions of ideas comparing and contrasting events, characters, and locations from the book in the