{"id":5427,"date":"2018-05-04T17:47:10","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T17:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/?p=5427"},"modified":"2018-05-04T17:47:10","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T17:47:10","slug":"storytelling-in-native-american-cultures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tedb-old.byu.edu\/?p=5427","title":{"rendered":"Storytelling in Native American Cultures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Storytelling in Native American Cultures<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kassidy Jones and Jana Wilhite<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Grade<\/strong>: 3<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>**This is a complete unit of lessons for this topic**<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Unit Objective:<\/strong> Students will be able to demonstrate their understanding of storytelling, especially in Native American cultures, by exploring and telling stories in role.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>National Theatre Standards:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>TH: Cr1.1.3 a. Create roles, imagined worlds, and improvised stories in a drama\/theatre work.<\/li>\n<li>Cr.2.3 b.: Compare ideas with peers and make selections that will enhance and deepen group theatrical work<\/li>\n<li>TH: Cr2.1.3 a. Participate in methods of investigation to devise original ideas for a drama\/theatre work.<\/li>\n<li>Cr.3.3 b.: Participate and contribute to physical and vocal exploration in an improvised or scripted theatrical work.<\/li>\n<li>TH:Cr 3.1.3 a. Collaborate with peers to revise, refine, and adapt ideas to fit the given parameters of a drama\/theatre work.<\/li>\n<li>TH:Pr 4.1.3 b. Investigate how movement and voice are incorporated into drama\/theatre work.<\/li>\n<li>TH:Re 7.1.3 a. Understand why artistic choices are made in a drama\/theatre work<\/li>\n<li>TH:Cn 11.2.3 a. Explore how stories are adapted from literature to drama\/theatre work.<\/li>\n<li>TH:Cn 11.2.3 b. Examine how artists have historically presented the same stories using different art forms, genres, or drama\/theatre conventions.<\/li>\n<li>TH:Cn10.1.3 a. Use personal experiences and knowledge to make connections to community and culture in a drama\/theatre work.<\/li>\n<li>TH:Cr1.1.3 b. Imagine and articulate ideas for costumes, props and sets for the environment and characters in a drama\/theatre work.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Utah Core Standards:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Objective 2: Explain how selected indigenous cultures of the Americas have changed over time.<\/li>\n<li>Describe and compare early indigenous people of the Americas (e.g. Eastern Woodlands, Plains, Great Basin, Southwestern, Artic, Incan, Aztec, Mayan).<\/li>\n<li>Identify how indigenous people maintain cultural traditions today.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Big Ideas:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Performing Identity<\/li>\n<li>Story<\/li>\n<li>Connecting with culture<\/li>\n<li>Understanding Differences<\/li>\n<li>Self-expression<\/li>\n<li>Self-presentation<\/li>\n<li>Image<\/li>\n<li>Practicality<\/li>\n<li>Locational history<\/li>\n<li>Creation of humanity<\/li>\n<li>Family<\/li>\n<li>Symbolism<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Essential Questions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How does the way that we tell stories influence others?<\/li>\n<li>Why is it important to make connections with cultures that are not our own?<\/li>\n<li>How do we tell our own stories?<\/li>\n<li>Why do we share stories with others?<\/li>\n<li>How does where you come from inform who you are?<\/li>\n<li>How do different people express the same ideas artistically?<\/li>\n<li>How does location affect artistic culture?<\/li>\n<li>What are the methods we use to express who we are?<\/li>\n<li>How does clothing inform and express who we are?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Knowledge and Skills:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Understanding components of storytelling<\/li>\n<li>Basic structure of storytelling<\/li>\n<li>Basic understanding of different aspects of Native American storytelling<\/li>\n<li>Basic understanding of conflict<\/li>\n<li>Basic understanding of self-representation<\/li>\n<li>Basic understanding of costume<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Authentic Performance Tasks: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Learning and exploring in role<\/li>\n<li>Creating a story through drawing<\/li>\n<li>Using your body to tell a story<\/li>\n<li>Enacting origin myths<\/li>\n<li>Using face and symbols to tell a story<\/li>\n<li>Creating costumes to match a character<\/li>\n<li>Telling stories through movement, orally, frozen images, and clothing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lessons:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Introduction Lesson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lesson Objective:<\/strong> Students will be able to demonstrate their understanding of making creative choices by participating in a series of introductory drama games as a class.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Searching for Stories<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lesson Objective:<\/strong> Students will be able to demonstrate their understanding of the basic climactic structure of storytelling by working together as a class to interpret a story from Native American \u201ccave paintings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Structure of Storytelling<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lesson Objective:<\/strong> Students will be able to demonstrate their understanding of the structure of storytelling by telling their own story using and highlighting the people, place, problem and progress aspects of telling a story.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Painting Your Own Story<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lesson Objective:<\/strong> Students will be able to demonstrate their understanding of basic climactic structure of storytelling by working in role to create a story using Native American \u201ccave paintings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Movement in Telling Stories<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lesson Objective:<\/strong> Students will be able to demonstrate their understanding of using their bodies and movement in telling stories by pantomiming and moving through the telling of a Native American folk tale.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where Did You Come From? 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