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- Alison Binder
- Julie Tanner
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- Storytelling began back in ancient times
- Used as a form of entertainment for both the listeners and the
storytellers
- Tribes competed to see who told the best stories
- Animals were used as characters to make fun of kings and chieftains<=
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- The Egyptians were the first to write their stories down.
- The Romans spread stories, as well as the gypsies. Since they were nomads this enab=
led
them to carry tales around the world.
- Royalty hired storytellers who told of court scandals and heroic
accomplishments.
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- Early storytellers told tales of animals and tribes with the ability=
to
fabricate and embellish the truth.
- This was used as a way of influencing others to do good or bad, which
became a tool of power for the storytellers.
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- Storytellers painted pictures on cave walls and rocks. (Example: Hieroglyphics)
- Anything they did not understand was fabricated and rationalized thr=
ough
stories.
- Through generations the stories have been changed somewhat and
embellished. They became gr=
eat
myths of the tribes.
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- Pourquoi [por-kwa] means "why" in French. Pourquoi tales a=
re
old legends told to explain why certain events happened. These tales
often start in the past, e.g. A long, long time ago . . . and end wh=
en
the explanation is complete. Pourquoi tales are most often concerned
with animals and the natural world.
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- How did leopards get their spots?
- Why do mosquitoes buzz in people’s ears?
- Why do the sun and the moon live in the sky?
- How did the milky way come to be?
- Why do rabbits have short tales?
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- Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears: A West African Tale
- Between Earth and Sky: Legends of Native American Sacred Places
- The Story of the Milky Way: A Cherokee Tale
- By Joseph Bruchac and Gayle Ross, 1995
- The Story of Lightning and Thunder
- Why the Possum’s Tale is Bare, and Other North American Indian Nature
Tales
- Edited by James E. Connolly, 1994
- How and Why Stories: World Tales Kids Can Read and Tell
- By Martha Hamilton and Mitch Weiss, 1999
- How the Animals Got Their Colors: Animal Myths from Around the World=
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- Cherokee Stories (http://www.powersource.com/cocinc/articles/default=
.htm)
- How the Milky Way Came To Be
- How the Red Bird Got His Color The First Strawberries
- Why Rabbit Has a Short Ta
- Why the Possum's Tail is Bar
- Native American Lore (http://www.ilhawaii.net/~stony/loreindx.html)<=
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- How Bear Lost His Tail
- How Rabbit Brought Fire to the People
- The Origin of Earth
- Scholastic: Teaching With Pourquoi Tales (http://www.teacher.scholas=
tic.com/products/instructor/pourquoitales.htm)
- How the Leopard Got its Spots
- Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears
- Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky (A Zuni Legend of New Mexic=
o)
- Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky (Southeastern Nigerian)
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- Storyteller draws the meaning of a part of a story to create a summa=
ry
- Frames are created to summarize the entire story
- The drawings can be a sketch, a diagram, a cartoon, or stick figures=
- Storyteller uses the drawn pictures to tell the story
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- Prepare the storyboard ahead of time
- Can be drawn
- Pictures can be cut out from magazines
- Draw the storyboard as you tell the story
- Can be done on the chalkboard, whiteboard, or overhead projector
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- Students can complete a storyboard to demonstrate comprehension of a
text or storytelling
- Link to a blank storyboard:
- Storyboard Printable
- Students can use the storyboard as a prewriting technique for story
writing
- Students could write their own Pourquoi tale
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- Nine in One, Grr! Grr!
- Told by Blia Xiong
- A folktale from Laos
- Frames prepared in advance
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- Each group will receive a Pourquoi Tale
- Each group will prepare to tell their story using the storyboard
technique
- Can be prepared before or can be drawn as the story is being told=
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- Each group will give a storytelling of their assigned Pourquoi tale<=
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mosquitoes buzz in people’s ears.
New York: Dial Books for Young Readers.
- Anderson, D.A. (1991). The =
origin
of live on earth. Mt. Airy,=
MD:
Sights Productions.
- Arnold, S. (1995). Child of=
the
sun. Troll Communications L=
.L.C.
- Bruchac, J. & Ross, G. (1995).
The story of the milky way: A Cherokee tale. New York: Dial Books for Young
Readers.
- Dayrell, E. (1968). Why the=
sun
and the moon live in the sky.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.
- Emery, N. (1996). Day and n=
ight. Flagstaff, Arizona: Salina Books=
helf.
- Xiong, B. (1989). Nine in o=
ne,
grr! grr! San Francisco,
California: Children’s Book Press.
- http://pages.prodigy.com
- www.readwritethink.org
- www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=3D324
- www.eldrbarry.net
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