Language Arts/ Literature/ Writing

Project Title:   Storytelling, Poetry, and Technology

Students complete a storytelling/poetry/technology unit in language arts class. The unit begins with a storytelling visiting the classes, telling stories. Students learn techniques of storytelling and write their own stories. They must be biographical in nature, based on real life experiences of the students, and can be serious or humorous. The storyteller and teacher work with students as they develop their stories.

Then, students present their stories, orally, in front of the class, and receive ratings from their peers and a grade from the teacher.

Once the oral storytelling part is complete, students convert their stories into poetry. They write eight line poems, which are based on their individual stories. The poems must summarize the stories they told.  Students represent their poems by adding images to the text.

Lastly, the poems, with their images, are put into a class slide presentation.