Lesson 5: Adding the Details
Objective: Students will be able to add storytelling details to their story by participating in a Speed Dating/Storytelling activity.
Materials
“The End” by David La Rochelle
Tongue Twister Handout
Warm Up:To Sit in Solemn Silence
- Ask a student to lead us in the tongue twister, give them the handout.
- The leader and the followers should all be in their Storytelling Character.
- While maintaining their character the leader should play with pitch, tone, quality, volume etc.
- Have a second person lead, time permitting.
- The goal is to get students to warm up their character voice.
Warm Up: What are you doing?
- One person will act something out, an activity they can do.
- the next person will ask…”What are you doing?”
- The first person will respond naming a brand new activity.
- The second person will assume that new activity.
- A third person will enter and ask “What are you doing” and the game goes on.
- Students should perform this in character.
- The goal is to get them physically moving and reacting as their character.
Activity: Speed Dating-Story Addition
- Have the students tell their story speed dating style.
- Each person will sit across from a partner in a long line.
- Each round both partners will tell their story focusing on different topics.
- gestures
- sound effects
- descriptions
- character voice
Activity:‘’The End”
- Read “The End” to the students or take turns reading.
- How do you think the author was able to write the story backwards?
- knowing every detail
- cause and effects
- Ask students to find a partner and see if they can now tell their story backwards because they have told it so many time.
- They may use their maps to help them.
- Ask students what discoveries they made telling their stories backwards? Was it difficult or easy? Why?
Tongue Twister Handout
To Sit in Solemn Silence
In a Dull Dark Dock
In a Pestilential Prison
With a Life Long Lock
Awaiting the Sensation
Of a Short Sharp Shock
From a Cheap and Chippy Chopper
On a Big Black Block