Project Work - Our Folktales

Our folktale project has gotten off to a very good start. Children have selected a folktale to work on. Most of these folktales were chosen from an anthology called  Peace Tales.  This is a collection of stories from different cultures that have the unifying theme of war and peace.

Once they picked their story, students used the first week after Spring Break to read the story until they could easily retell it, and needed to list the title, the characters, and the setting.

Graham's list of the folktale he chose (The Rose Prince), the setting (in a forest in Romania), and all of the characters.

The second part of our project was to create storyboards. Storyboards, as we found out, are a way to tell a story using mainly pictures. Children have to decide what the main parts of the plot are, and then draw them comic book style.

Augustus shows us a storyboard about the folktale Slops. This is a great example of using detailed colorful pictures with minimal text to retell a story.

These storyboards will be all joined together and shared soon - I'm working on a slide presentation that will demonstrate all the hard work that went into all of these.

The following couple weeks will be spent on students writing a Readers Theater style script. They will use their storyboards to do so. Tutorials will be coming to a space near you, but in the meantime let's review what Readers Theater is all about. This was from just one year ago:

Morning Meeting 2019 Readers Theater

More to come soon - but Covid-19 or no, we seem to be making project based learning happening!