Designing Hybrid Instruction
Goals and Objectives Assignment, Sample 1:

Course Name: Children's Literature (Engl 8)

Lesson Name: Traditional Fantasy in Children's Literature


Goals:

  • Become familiar with the characteristics, types, and motifs of traditional fantasy.

  • Recognize how folktales reflect the oral traditions and cultures of the countries represented.


Enduring Understanding:

Folktales from different cultures have common themes which reflect the shared needs and desires of people around the world. However, these themes take on different forms in different cultures, and these represent the rich diversity of the countries they represent.


Learning Objectives

Objectives Classification (Bloom or Wiggins & McTighe)
Name the categories of traditional fantasy and give an example of each. Knowledge (Bloom)
Identify and describe the most common folktale archetypes and motifs. Comprehension (Bloom)
Locate a folktale from your culture or a culture of interest to you. Comprehension (Bloom)
Dramatize your folktale and interpret how the characteristics of yours and your partner's tales reflect their oral roots. Application (Bloom)
Examine how your folktale reflects the cultural values and rituals of its country of origin and what effect this and other similar tales may have had on the psychology, ethics, and socialization of people within that culture.

Analysis (Bloom)

Perspective (Wiggins and McTighe)

Empathy (Wiggins and McTighe)
Analyze yours and your partner's folktales, comparing their interpretation of folktale archetypes, motifs and cultural indicators. Evaluation (Bloom)
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