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= **Grade 3 Unit 6: Fantastic Adventures with Dragons, Gods, and Giants ** =

In this sixth six-week unit of third grade, students read fantasies, adventure poetry, mythology, and informational texts about ancient Greece and ancient Rome. **Overview**

Beginning with fantasy stories and poems about dragons, students learn to summarize and illustrate chapters, seeing how they are building blocks to the ending. They record themselves reading fluently an assigned chapter (i.e., with a video camera or tape recorder). They combine the recording with their illustrated chapter summaries to create a multimedia presentation. They will also hear a variety of myths, both Greek and Roman, and read a book based on Homer’s //The Odyssey.// Finally, students will research an Olympic sport and compare it to an Olympic sport in the days of ancient Greece.

**ESSENTIAL QUESTION**

Why is it important to know mythology?


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