Story Telling

Categorize

Options (12)

Characterization

Setting

Plot

Red = Angry

Dog = Loyal

Moon = Change

Family

Love

Death

Love can be destructive.

Families come in different shapes and sizes.

Don't wait until someone dies to realize what they mean to you.

Organize these options into the right categories:

Theme

Topic

Symbolism

Elements of Story

Today we will understand how different cultures around the world use story telling to preserve their traditions.
Success Criteria:
1. I will listen to the lesson by responding to questions.
2. I will speak with my classmates using relevant vocabulary.
3. I will read and check my understanding.
4. I will write in complete sentences.

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9/9/24 Learning Intention:

Our goal is to​ determine what we can learn about a culture through their legends.

We have been learning about Greek Mythology.
This week, we will apply our knowledge to myths and legends around the world.

​Storytelling is the vivid description of ideas, beliefs, personal experiences, and life- lessons through stories or narratives that evoke powerful emotions and insights.

Oral History is the telling of a society's history and traditions through storytelling.


Storytelling is a universal human experience that has been around for a very long time, with evidence of it dating back over 30,000 years

What is story telling?

Multiple Choice

What is an oral history?

• an organization that operates recording studios where people can bring someone they know

• an audio or video device used to record someone speaking

• a group of people who do a variety of jobs, such as farming, welding, and sanitation work.

• information a person shares about his or her experiences by speaking

Multiple Choice

Oral histories can help people avoid repeating past mistakes. Oral histories can help people become more connected and remind them of their "shared humanity". Oral histories can help historians of the future learn about the experiences of today.

What conclusion can you make from these statements?

• People who lived long ago are smarter than people today.

• Oral histories are important for a variety of reasons.

• Few people have any interest in collecting oral histories.

• Recording an interview is a difficult and lengthy task.

Multiple Choice

Culture can defined as

• arts , beliefs, music, language, etc

• just arts

• just languaje

Multiple Choice

Are cultural values

• freedom, peace, love and truth

• music and art

• beautiful and boring

Multiple Choice

Dialect is part of what element?

• Arts
• Economy
• Language
• History

Multiple Choice

A learned system of shared beliefs, goals, and ways of doing things:

• culture region

• ethnicity

• diversity

• culture

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is a group that shares a geographic region, a sense of identity, and a culture?

• stateless nation

• society

• folkway

Multiple Select

Choose all that apply: The element of language (2)

• shows how people communicate

• provides a means for the government to tax its people

• requires all citizens of a country to speak the same language

• provides a way to pass down values, traditions, and history to other generations

Today, you will read about story-telling around the world: Native American, Native Hawaiin, West African, Jewish, and Irish.

1. Go to Google Classroom and open the reading.

2. Listen to and read the article.

3. Respond to the questions by using the text.

4. Finally, write a summary about the article.

Success Criteria:

​Click the headphones to listen to the article

The article, "Story Telling and Cultural Traditions," was about the oral history traditions in ___________, ___________, ______________, and ____________. Story telling is important to a culture because it . . .
I learned that . . .