Benchmark Advance 2nd Grade Unit 6 Week 1

What is our essential question?

• What can we learn from stories?

• What can different cultures teach us?

• What not to do if you are King Midas

• Do not each too much

How did the mice realize their best idea was actually not a good idea?

• The cat is actually their friend.

• The mice thought the bell will be too loud.

• They realized someone had to put the bell on the cat.

• The mice thought they were being mean to the cat.

What was the central message to the story "A Great Idea"?

• Your plans are never a good idea.

• Do your plan anyways even if they are bad.

• Sometimes your plans don't work out the way you hoped.

Why did the man make the ant small?

• The size of the ant's kindness was small.

• Ants look better tiny.

• The ant asked to be small.

• He did it on accident.

How did the people behave with the sky's food?

• They saved enough for everyone.

• They only ate what was needed.

• They ate way more than they needed.

• They hid the food from the sky.

What was the lesson of the story "Why the Sky is Far Away"?

• Eat all your food

• Be greedy because theres not a lot of food.

• Eat as much as you can so you don't waste food.

• Do not be greedy, only take what you need.

How did the Sky teach the people a lesson? Choose all the right answers.

• He went high up in the sky away from the people.

• He gave them more food until they got sick.

• He said the people cannot eat for 10 days.

• He made the people grow their crops.

How was King Midas greedy?

• He wanted all the food to himself.

• He didn't love his daugther.

• He wanted everything he touched to be gold.

• He didn't share his toys.

What did King Midas realize?

• Gold was the best thing ever.

• He loved his daughter more than gold.

• The stranger was the meanest person.

• He didn't care about his daugther.

What lesson did King Midas learn?

• Gold will make you rich.

• Be careful of what you touch with your gold powers.

• You should care more about the things you love.

• Only take what you need.