Clever+Tom+and+the+Leprechaun

- =Clever Tom and The Leprechaun=

retold by Linda Shute from Croker's Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland. [1798-1854] "The Field of Boulians [bowl-YAWN]" =A trickster like a leprechaun can trick you with his/her ?????=

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Resource - for where the story originates. - The Field of Boliauns =Ballincollig, Ireland = http://folkli.com/the-field-of-boliauns-a-local-legend-of-ballincollig-ireland

=1. Leprechaun Folklore - is more Scottish [ Danish/Viking/Norse legends]= =2. Vikings/ Danes buried the treasure in Ireland 795 - 1014 AD= =3. Legend: only the Leprechauns know now where the gold is buried.= =4. Solitary creatures who repairs shoes for the dancing fairies - or half the shoe.= =5. Leprechauns wear red, dancing or trooping fairies where green.= =6. The word leprechaun has various names throughout Ireland,= =Croker claims laucharma'n is the Irish word for pygmy.= =7. A trickster who cannot be outsmarted.=

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=More about Ireland=
 * * **Irish Story Telling & Oral Histories/ Primary Sources**


 * Big Idea: I will listen to an Irish Folktale and Interview a person from Ireland [primary source]**
 * Learning Objectives: ** Students will appreciate a different culture by listenting to a folktale and then forming questions to interview a person from that country. Introduction to primary sources.
 * Performance Task:** storytelling, song, video, interview, artifacts


 * Lesson Link: storytelling: Clever Tom and the Leprechaun**
 * Lesson Link: primary sources**

**1.Extention**: **3.** **Higher Level thinking skills -** primary vs. secondary sources; discover how a primary source brings authenticity to learning, realize the importance of their own story **4. Kagan: work in groups to come up with interview questions**
 * 2.Technology- video **

Standards LA.2.LAFS.2.RL.4.10, LA.2.LAFS.2.SL.1.2, LA.2.LAFS.2.RL.1.2, LA.2.LAFS.2.SL.1.1.b, LA.2.LAFS.2.SL.1.3

ESOL Language Experience Realia Song/Music Story Telling || = =