Hercules: Part 2

Part of

• Stories from Greek Mythology

Standards alignment

Common Core State Standards

• RL.2.3 — Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.
• RL.1.3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
• RL.2.2 — Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
• RL.3.2 — Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.

Alaska

• RL.1.7 — Use illustrations and details in a story read or read aloud to describe its characters, events, setting, or problem-solution.
• RL.1.3 — Describe characters, settings, major events, and problem-solution in a story, play, or poem, using key details.
• RL.2.3 — Describe how characters in a story, play or poem respond to major events, problems, and challenges.

Arizona

• 3.RL.2 * — Recount and paraphrase stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in text.

California

• K.1.2 — Learn examples of honesty, courage, determination, individual responsibility, and patriotism in American and world history from stories and folklore.

Colorado

• RWC20-GR.3-S.2-GLE.1-EO.a.iii — Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.
• RWC20-GR.1-S.2-GLE.1-EO.a.ii — Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.

Connecticut

• RL.2.3 — Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.
• RL.3.2 — Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.
• RL.1.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
• RL.1.3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.

Delaware

• RL.1.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
• RL.2.3 — Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.
• RL.1.3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
• RL.3.2 — Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.

Florida

• SS.K.A.2.4 — Listen to and retell stories about people in the past who have shown character ideals and principles including honesty, courage, and responsibility.

Georgia

• ELAGSE3RL2 — Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.
• ELAGSE1RL2 — Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.

Hawaii

• 2.RL.3 — Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.
• 1.RL.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
• 3.RL.2 — Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.
• SS.K.3.13.3 — Examine physical characteristics on maps and globes using positional words

Idaho

• 2.RC.L.5b — Describe how characters in stories heard or read respond to major events and challenges.
• 2.SS.2.1.3 — Show that map symbols such as key, legend, and scale represent a real object or place.
• K.RC.TE.3 — Ask and answer questions about key details in texts heard.

Illinois

• RL.1.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
• RL.2.3 — Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.
• RL.3.2 — Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.
• RL.1.3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.

Indiana

• 3.RC.2 — Recount folktales, fables, and tall tales from diverse cultures; identify the themes in these works. (E)
• 1.RC.2 — Retell stories, fables, and fairy tales in sequence, including key details, and demonstrate comprehension of their central message or lesson.

Iowa

• RL.2.3 — Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges, drawing on key details.
• RL.3.2 — Recount and determine the central message, lesson, or moral of fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.
• SS.1.16 — Using maps, globes, and other simple geographic models, compare and contrast routes for people or goods that consider environmental characteristics.

Kansas

• RL.1.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
• RL.1.3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
• RL.2.3 — Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.
• RL.3.2 — Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.

Kentucky

• RL.2.7 — Use a story’s illustrations and words in print/non-print texts to demonstrate understanding of characters, setting and plot.
• RL.2.3 — Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges in order to make meaning of the story development.
• RL.2.2 — Identify implicit and explicit information from a summary to determine the author’s message, lesson learned and/or moral, including but not limited to fables and folktales from diverse cultures.

Louisiana

• RL.1.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
• RL.1.3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
• RL.2.3 — Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.

Maine

• R.11.2.a — Use illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.
• R.4.3.a — Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
• R.6.2.a — Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.

Maryland

• RL.2.3 — Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.
• RL.1.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
• RL.1.3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
• RL.3.2 — Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.

Massachusetts

• RL.3.2 — Retell stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.
• RL.4.4 — Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including those that allude to significant characters found in mythology (e.g., Herculean); explain how figurative language (e.g., simile, metaphor) enriches a text. (See grade 4 Language Standards 4–6 on applying knowledge of vocabulary to reading.)
• RL.1.2 — Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.

Michigan

• RL.4.4 — Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including those that allude to significant characters found in mythology (e.g., Herculean).

Mississippi

• RL.3.2 — Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.
• RL.1.2 — Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.

Montana

• RL.4.4 — Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including those that allude to significant characters found in mythology (e.g., Herculean).

Nebraska

• LA.1.RP.6 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a literary text.
• SS 2.3.1.c — Identify and apply map elements.

Nevada

• RL.2.3 — Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.
• RL.1.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
• RL.3.2 — Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.

New Hampshire

• RL.4.4 — Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including those that allude to significant characters found in mythology (e.g., Herculean).

New Jersey

• RL.2.3 — Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges using key details.
• 6.1.5.GeoSV.1 — Identify the maps or types of maps most appropriate for specific purposes, (e.g., to locate physical and/or human features in a community, to determine the shortest route from one town to another town, to compare the number of people living at two or more locations).
• RL.3.2 — Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message/theme, lesson, or moral and explain how it is revealed through key details in the text.
• RL.3.3 — Describe the characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the plot.
• 6.1.2.HistorySE.1 — Use examples of regional folk heroes, stories, and/or songs and make inferences about how they have contributed to the development of a culture's history.

New Mexico

• RL.1.NM.2 — Identify characters and simple story lines from selected myths and stories from around the world.

New York

• 1.5a — Maps and map tools, such as legends and cardinal directions, can help us navigate from one place to the next, provide directions, or trace important routes.
• E.2.1 — The study of world history requires an understanding of world cultures and civilizations, including an analysis of important ideas, social and cultural values, beliefs, and traditions. This study also examines the human condition and the connections and interactions of people across time and space and the ways different people view the same event or issue from a variety of perspectives.
• 1.5c — Symbols are used to represent physical features and man-made structures on maps and globes.
• 3.4 — Each community or culture has a unique history, including heroic figures, traditions, and holidays.
• 1.8b — Oral histories, biographies, and family time lines relate family histories.

North Carolina

• RL.3.2 — Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.
• RL.1.2 — Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.

North Dakota

• 2.R.8a — Describe characters' feelings or traits during or after listening to a story.

Ohio

• 2.5 — Maps and their symbols, including cardinal directions, can be interpreted to answer questions about location of places.
• RL.2.2.b — Retell stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures.

Oregon

• 3.RL.2 — Recount and summarize stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral, and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.
• 1.RL.2 — Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.

Pennsylvania

• CC.1.3.1.B — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
• CC.1.3.1.C — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
• CC.1.3.2.C — Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.
• CC.1.3.3.C — Describe characters in a story and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.

Rhode Island

• RL.2.3 — Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.
• RL.1.3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
• RL.2.2 — Retell stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
• RL.4.4 — Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including those that allude to significant characters found in mythology (e.g., Herculean); explain how figurative language (e.g., simile, metaphor) enriches a text. (See grade 4 Language standards 4–6 on applying knowledge of vocabulary to reading.)

South Carolina

• ELA.1.AOR.2.1 — Retell a story using main story elements and identify a lesson in a literary text.

South Dakota

• 1.RL.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
• 2.RL.7 — Use illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.
• 1.RL.3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
• 2.RL.3 — Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.
• K.RL.4 — With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in stories, poems, nursery rhymes, or songs.

Tennessee

• 3.RL.KID.2 — Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.

Texas

• 3.9A — demonstrate knowledge of distinguishing characteristics of well-known children's literature such as folktales, fables, fairy tales, legends, and myths;
• 5.3D — identify, use, and explain the meaning of adages and puns.
• 3.8C — analyze plot elements, including the sequence of events, the conflict, and the resolution; and

Vermont

• RL.1.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
• RL.1.3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
• RL.2.3 — Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.
• RL.3.2 — Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.

Virginia

• 2.RL.1.C — Describe character’s attributes (e.g., traits, motivations, or feelings) and how they respond to major events and challenges.
• 2.RL.1.D — Generate predictions about story characters and events using the text.
• 2.RL.1.A — Retell stories sequentially, including their overall structure, essential story events, and the central message, lesson, or moral.

Washington

• RL.1.3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
• RL.2.3 — Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.
• RL.3.2 — Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.

Washington, D.C.

• RL.2.3 — Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.
• RL.1.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
• RL.1.3 — Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
• RL.3.2 — Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.

West Virginia

• ELA.4.7 — Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a literary text, including words that allude to significant characters such as those found in mythology (e.g., herculean).
• SS.5.18 — Identify the characteristics and purposes of maps, globes, geographic information systems and other geographic tools.

Wisconsin

• ELA.K.L.3.a — Ask and answer questions about unknown words.
• ELA.K.R.3 — With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and important events in a story or pieces of information in a text. (RI&RL)
• ELA.K.SL.2 — With guidance and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.
• ELA.K.R.2 — With prompting and support, retell stories (RL); share key details from a text. (RI)

Wyoming

• RL.3.2 — Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.
• RL.1.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
• RL.2.3 — Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.