Day 2

Day 2: Story Design 

Estimated time: 45-60 minutes

Goal: Students will create two thumbnail sketches depicting a worm’s eye and a bird’s eye perspective of their favorite place. 

• Beginning, Middle, End Warm-up- Show painting by Ryder Erickson Spring Whale Hunting. Have students pretend that they are looking at one scene from a book or a movie. Using the graphic organizer, have them write down their ideas about whether the painting Spring Whale Hunting is the beginning, middle, or end of the story. 

• Ask students to determine if the painting was created from the point-of-view of a bird or a worm. (Worm's Eye view, or MACRO view- zoomed in). 

• Refer to the brainstorm list from Day 1 of landforms and activities.  Have students choose a favorite activity and place that they want to tell a story about. Ensure that students choose a place that they will be able to find later on a map of the region. 

• Using the Bird’s Eye/Worm’s Eye Perspective Workbook, students will practice creating compositions for their paintings (Part II and III- Beginning and Middle). One drawing will be MACRO-zoomed in all the way. The next will be zoomed out slightly. See example below. 

Student sample: Thumbnail sketch of a tube -MACRO (Beginning), and a sketch of the tubers floating down the creek, zoomed out of the scene (Middle). The student had chosen her favorite place to go swimming in the summer- Powers Creek outside of Unalakleet. 

Vocabulary

Thumbnail Sketch

Macro

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Materials 

See Materials section, Day 2