Unit 5: How We Express Ourselves
How We Express Ourselves Central Idea: Stories and storytelling help us to learn about different cultures. Lines of Inquiry: Perspective: Different ways regions tell stories. Change: How stories change throughout time. Causation: The reasons people tell stories. During this unit we focused on the history of storytelling and how different cultures told stories. We learned about shadow puppets, and cave drawing. Telling stories around a fire, and even how to tell digital stories. We practiced written story telling and writing personal narratives. Our favorite writing activity was writing a fictional story pretending we were stuck in a snow globe. We made sure to include lots of details and adjectives to describe the setting and how we were feeling. We even really had snow during this unit, so it was almost like REALLY being in a snow globe! We practiced different ways of oral storytelling as well. We wrote our own scripts and practicing acting in front of the class. Using a big v