The Maid and the Milk Pail Milk 2

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Lesson Objectives

Core Content Objectives

Students will:

 Demonstrate familiarity with “The Maid and the Milk Pail”

 Identify character, plot, and setting as basic story elements  Describe the characters, plot, and setting of “The Maid and the Milk Pail”

 Identify fables as one type of fiction  Identify characteristics of fables: short, moral, personification  Explain in their own words the moral of “The Maid and the Milk Pail”

Language Arts Objectives

The following language arts objectives are addressed in this lesson. Objectives aligning with the Common Core State Standards are noted with the corresponding standard in parentheses. Refer to the Alignment Chart for additional standards addressed in all lessons in this domain.

Students will:

 Retell the fable “The Maid and the Milk Pail” including key details (RL.1.2)

 Identify the moral of the fable “The Maid and the Milk Pail” (RL.1.2)

 Identify the literary terms characters and plot, and explain those terms as they apply to the fable “The Maid and the Milk Pail” (RL.1.3)

 Explain how the milkmaid’s feelings changed from the beginning to the end of “The Maid and the Milk Pail” (RL.1.4)

 Explain that “The Maid and the Milk Pail” is fiction because it was made up to teach a lesson (RL.1.5)

 Clarify information about “The Maid and the Milk Pail” by asking questions that begin with where (SL.1.1c)

 Prior to listening to “The Maid and the Milk Pail,” identify orally what they know and have learned about fables

Core Vocabulary

balanced, adj. Stable or fixed in place; not likely to fall Example: The tightrope walker appeared to be well balanced on the high wire.

Variation(s): balance, balances, balancing jealous, adj. Wanting what another person has Example: Timothy was jealous of Carla’s new puppy. Variation(s): none milkmaid, n. A girl or woman who milks cows Example: The milkmaid took three buckets of milk back to the house. Variation(s): milkmaids plumpest, adj. Chubbiest, most round Example: Julie would only sleep on the plumpest pillows. Variation(s): plump, plumper