Sunday, January 31, 2016

February 1, 3

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1. Warm-up - Circle Story - Imagination, Concentration, Spontaneity

A group creating and telling a story together, one word or sentence at a time.

How Do I Play It?

Start in a Drama circle.
Students take it turn to say either a sentence or word building up a story around the circle.
You can use sentence starters or words to change the story e.g. "fortunately" and "unfortunately" alternately as the first word of the sentence.
You can also experiment with story conventions e.g. once upon a time, the official time of death had been 6.15 pm etc.

2.   Assessment Task 1 - Presentation
      Finish your Storytelling graphic
         - Be sure to have a clear learning path that anyone can understand
         - Be sure to individualize your graphic

3. Process Journal Entry

Homework: Storytellers created by Joey Graceffa

a) Watch Episode1and write a Criterion D entry in your Process Journal.

b) Read Joey Graceffa's biography (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joey_Graceffa)

Monday, January 25, 2016

Storytelling example

Thursday, January 21, 2016

January 25, 27

1. Warm-up - Voice and diction exercise - tongue twister (builds confidence)
The big black bug bit the big black bear.

Now try these:

For more tongue twisters: http://americanfolklore.net/folklore/2010/07/funny_tongue_twisters.html,
http://www.uebersetzung.at/twister/en.htm

2. Criterion D: Responding

Students respond to their world, to their own art and to the art of others.

Students must make connections and transfer learning to new settings.

Through reflecting on their artistic intention and the impact of their work

on an audience and on themselves, students become more aware of their

own artistic development and the role that arts play in their lives and in the

world. Students learn that the arts may initiate as well as respond

to change.

What does the IB have to say about this? Let's watch and discuss.

3. Infographics -Let's look at how we can organize all this info.
a). Principles of Effective Infographics - http://design.tutsplus.com/courses/effective-infographic-design/lessons/principles-of-effective-infographic-design
b) Sites that can help give ideas. Pictochart - http://piktochart.com/ , Easelly - http://www.easel.ly/

4. Process Journal Entry

Monday, January 11, 2016

January 11, 13, 18, 20

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January 11, 13

1. Make front cover for Process Journal (print outside and bring to the next lesson),
2. Movie
     a. Discussion: Stand By Me
     b. Criterion Diii - respond to worksheet (link on blog)
3. Conduct research
      a. define subject specific vocabulary: establishing contact with audience, rhythm, tempo, climax, structure, keeping the audience attention, eye contact with audience, dramatic pause, how to build suspense, syntax, Freytag's pyramid (structure of a story), pacing, plot, gesture (https://quizlet.com/6580711/storytelling-vocabulary-flash-cards/)
b. What is story telling? Why tell stories? How does culture influence storytelling? What are some skills and techniques I can use to tell my story?
c. Research contemporary story tellers. Look at the work of a story teller and the way he/she tells a story. Include a short biography.
d. Critical Analysis (compare and contrast): 2 different oral traditions (for example Native American and African), AND 2 different storytellers.

You NEED a Works Cited page.

Due Date - At the beginning of class on Monday, January 25.

Irish story telling and Irish story tellers:
Niall de Burca - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CWYnpcoA3E
Muireann Murphy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyjrK_rmSPQ

José Saramago - Baltasar and Blimunda http://www.amazon.com/Baltasar-Blimunda-Panther-Jose-Saramago-ebook/dp/B00DIK7SFO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1452695163&sr=8-1&keywords=kindle+books+-+baltasar+and+blimunda#reader_B00DIK7SFO

Some links to help:

www.storynet.org (Katie's suggestion)

Links suggested by the MYP (IB):
Society for Storytelling      http://www.sfs.org.uk
Stories in a nutshell      http://www.storyarts.org/library/nutshell/index.html
Stories in the bag    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqDtbjVLnFM
                                http://www.storiesinabag.com.ar
Kevin Kling, contemporaty storyteller    http://www.kevinkling.com

Even more links:
ECHO - http://www.echospace.org/articles/279/sections/683.html
Native Storytellers connect the past and the future: http://cojmc.unl.edu/nativedaughters/storytellers/native-storytellers-connect-the-past-and-the-future
Storytelling day: http://www.storytellingday.net/history-of-storytelling-how-did-storytelling.html