Florida SS.2.AA.1.2

Social Studies2nd GradePositive influences and contributions by African Americans.

The Standard

Identify oral traditions and folktales of African Americans (e.g., Anansi the Spider, Tale of the Midnight Goat Thief).

Florida Next Generation Sunshine State Standards for Social Studies

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students recognize that oral traditions are stories shared aloud and passed between generations. They identify African American folktales and describe their characters, events, lessons, and cultural connections.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student can recognize a studied folktale, retell key events in order, and explain how oral storytelling preserved it. The student can identify a lesson, repeated phrase, clever character, or other folktale feature.
Common Misconceptions: Students may think oral tradition means reading a story aloud from a book. They may treat every story with African American characters as a folktale or mistake Anansi for a real historical person.
How to Assess It: Read a short Anansi retelling aloud. Ask, “Why is this an oral tradition, and what lesson does the folktale teach?”

Lesson moves

Give pairs picture cards from an Anansi tale to sequence, then have them retell the story aloud without reading from a script.
After hearing The Midnight Goat Thief, ask students to write: What choice teaches the story's lesson, and why?
Play Folktale Feature Sort by sorting cards into often found in folktales and not required, then defending one choice.
Ask students to collect a family story told aloud, then compare how repeated tellings help people remember and share it.

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