Assignment 3.4: Traditional Storytelling – Individual and Partner Project
Each class member will form a partnership with yet another classmate. You will identify your partner in Module 3.1. You will communicate with your partner as you develop your story (from Module 3.2 to Module 3.4).
You will document your practice and feedback on this wiki page (or link to a shared wiki page.)
For your service learning project, you will share your story in the community. You will submit a video of you telling this traditional story to a live audience. Your video may be posted on LS5633 Course Wiki at: http://ls5633.wikispaces.com.
Learning a New Story
On this page, I am going to record my first steps here as prewriting and hopefully, as support for students' story learning process.
Inspirations:
From the first time I read the story "Li Chi Slays the Serpent," I knew it was a story I wanted to tell. The story is in an anthology of Folktales from Around the World edited by Jane Yolen (1986).
I appreciate that this story has a strong female character. I also appreciate that it has survived over many generations in a culture in which females often lacked access to power. Considering this anomaly, I wanted to be especially careful about conducting background research and retelling the story as authentically as possible.
Early Research:
I looked for picture book versions of this story and did not find any. (I have submitted my retelling for publication to several publishers who have soundly rejected it. One wrote that the story is too violent for U.S. children. Really?)
You will find my culture research at the bottom of "The Great Deed of Li Ji" retelling (3.1 Mentor Text Example) found on the ALA Editions Web site.
Story Map
You will link your story map here.
Practicing the Story:
I created a story card (which is my traditional strategy for learning a new story) and began by sharing with my dog-boy on our morning walks in the desert (circa 1996).
Feedback from my Partner:
Upload Storyteller Feedback Sheet here.
Sharing the Story:
Document date, time, location, and audience here. (I first told this story in a public venue in the fall of 1996 for the Tales of Arizona: Then and Now Storytelling Festival and to fifth-grade girls at Corbett Elementary School in Tucson, where, at the time, I was the school librarian.
Assignment 3.4: Traditional Storytelling – Individual and Partner Project
Each class member will form a partnership with yet another classmate. You will identify your partner in Module 3.1. You will communicate with your partner as you develop your story (from Module 3.2 to Module 3.4).
You will document your practice and feedback on this wiki page (or link to a shared wiki page.)
For your service learning project, you will share your story in the community. You will submit a video of you telling this traditional story to a live audience. Your video may be posted on LS5633 Course Wiki at: http://ls5633.wikispaces.com.
Learning a New Story
On this page, I am going to record my first steps here as prewriting and hopefully, as support for students' story learning process.
Inspirations:
From the first time I read the story "Li Chi Slays the Serpent," I knew it was a story I wanted to tell. The story is in an anthology of Folktales from Around the World edited by Jane Yolen (1986).
I appreciate that this story has a strong female character. I also appreciate that it has survived over many generations in a culture in which females often lacked access to power. Considering this anomaly, I wanted to be especially careful about conducting background research and retelling the story as authentically as possible.
Early Research:
I looked for picture book versions of this story and did not find any. (I have submitted my retelling for publication to several publishers who have soundly rejected it. One wrote that the story is too violent for U.S. children. Really?)
I had better luck finding variants of this story in folktale collections. See my book reviews at: https://ls5633.wikispaces.com/Chinese_Folktales and my culture research below.
My Culture Research:
You will find my culture research at the bottom of "The Great Deed of Li Ji" retelling (3.1 Mentor Text Example) found on the ALA Editions Web site.
Story Map
You will link your story map here.
Practicing the Story:
I created a story card (which is my traditional strategy for learning a new story) and began by sharing with my dog-boy on our morning walks in the desert (circa 1996).
Feedback from my Partner:
Upload Storyteller Feedback Sheet here.
Sharing the Story:
Document date, time, location, and audience here. (I first told this story in a public venue in the fall of 1996 for the Tales of Arizona: Then and Now Storytelling Festival and to fifth-grade girls at Corbett Elementary School in Tucson, where, at the time, I was the school librarian.