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Bringing it All Together ( Showcase/Discussion)

Tyler Riordan
PVO South
First Grade
April 30th, 2015

Big Idea that drives Lesson/Unit:

Stories and Narratives can be Created and Shared in Many Different Ways, For Many Different
Reasons
Sometimes, stories can be told in ways you wouldnt normally expect. Whether its through
shadows or masks, vocally or visually, there are many ways to get a story across to an audience. What we
can learn from all these varied methods is that there is no right or wrong way to tell a story, and that you
can get as creative as youd like to tell it in the way thats most interesting to you.
Its also important to ask yourself why you personally tell stories- do you tell them for fun, or to
teach lessons? Do you prefer telling stories verbally or visually? These questions help to consider the
broader perspective of why other people from around the world make and share stories, and can help the
students compare their own insights to what they know about storytelling as a global medium.
Key concepts about Big Idea:
Many cultures from around the world tell stories as entertainment or as lessons
This means that there are an infinite number of ways to tell and share stories
Culture and location can affect what kinds of stories are told, and how
Fine Arts Goals Met by the Objectives:
25.A.1d Visual Arts: Identify the elements of line, shape, space, color and texture; the principles
of repetition and pattern; and the expressive qualities of mood, emotion and pictorial
representation.
25.B.2: Understand how elements and principles combine within an art form to express ideas.
25.A.1b Drama: Understand the elements of acting, locomotor and nonlocomotor movement,
vocal and nonvocal sound, story making; the principles of plot, character, setting,
problem/resolution and message; and the expressive characteristics of simple emotions.
26.B.1b Drama: Demonstrate individual skills (e.g., vocalizing, listening, moving, observing,
concentrating) and group skills (e.g., decision making, planning, practicing, spacing) necessary to
create or perform story elements and characterizations.
3-4 Essential Questions:
What methods of telling stories have we learned?
Who can give me an example of another kind of storytelling?
Are the methods we learned all really different, or are they similar?
Do you think its important to have different ways to tell stories? Why?
Which do you think worked the best? Why?
Vocabulary Acquisition (Reiteration of Previous Vocabulary Learned):
Story/Narrative: A telling of imaginary or real people and events told for education or
entertainment.
Storyteller/Narrator: A person who tells stories to other people.
Collaboration: Working together to create something as a team.

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Shadow: A dark shape created by putting something between a light and the lights shine
Puppets: A movable model of a person or animal that is often used in entertainment
Mask: A covering worn on all or part of the face, often to amuse or terrify others.
Emotion/Mood: The way you feel about something, often something that is happening or has
happened to you. Your feelings.
Character: A person in a novel, play, movie, or story. Sometimes played by actors.
Improvisation: To make something up as you go along- to do something without planning or
practicing it first.

Key Artistic Concepts:

Collaboration is important in storytelling, whether between people telling a story together or
between the storyteller and the audience
Storytelling isnt always just reading from a book- often its a performance
At the same time, storytelling can also be done visually, with just pictures
There is no right or wrong way to make and/or share a story
Artmaking Materials Needed:

Several sheets of colored papers

Yarn
Glue
Tape
Stapler + staples
Scissors
Markers
Feathers (time allowing)

Contemporary/Historical/Multicultural exemplars (Reiterate Previous Examples):

Multiple kinds of masks (Greek, Japanese, African, Halloween)
Chinese shadow theatre
Shadowgraphy
Comic strips (newspaper, etc)
Procedures:
INTRODUCTION: (3 minutes)
o Re-Introduce vocabulary
o Today we will have a few minutes to complete our masks, and then well have a
discussion/ show our work and what we learned from it.
o Pass out/oversee distribution of supplies to finish masks

DESIGN/WORK SESSION: (5 - 10 minutes)

o Students who were not able to finish their masks from Lesson 2 will be allowed to do so.
Anyone who has finished will be allowed to add more details to their masks or work on
another project they feel they need more work on.
o Have a few students volunteer to show and explain their masks- have their peers guess
what its of, what its feeling.

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CLEAN UP: (2 minutes) To take place before preparing for discussion. (put markers, glue,
scissors, etc. back into baggies and away, extra paper out of the way, feathers returned to baggies,
etc.)

DISCUSSION SEGMENT: (10-15 minutes total)

o Have students circle up on the carpet.
o What are some things you learned about stories/telling stories in these classes? (have
multiple students share)
o Are the methods we learned all really different, or are they similar?
o Do you think its important to have different ways to tell stories? Why?
o Before these lessons, what was your favorite way to hear stories?
o Out of all the methods we learned to tell stories in class, which were your favorites to do?
How come?
o Lets think of ways we can keep telling stories at school, or at home. Do you think you
could show some of these examples to your families and teach them how to tell stories in
these ways too? What are other ways you can share stories at home? How about in the
classroom?
o Closure (See below)

CLOSURE: (3 minutes)
o Student input on what they liked/ learned about the topic
! Ex. Something new about the different kinds of storytelling, how shadows can
change shape and how that affects the story, differences between drawing/telling
a story and performing it, etc
! What being a storyteller means to them