Story Sharing: Telling and Writing Stories
Authors: Alexia, Isabella, Camila, Joe, Destiny, Masai, Angela, Gillian,
Myra, Kyra, Tina, Chelsea, Ana, Carmen
Myra, Kyra, Tina, Chelsea, Ana, Carmen
The students explored storytelling as an introduction to Theater Arts. Sharing and writing stories became part of a social and cultural activity which purpose was to illustrate the kind of learning environment educators can create in their class. The first exercise was about improvising a collective story through which every student could add their own piece. Every culture has its own stories or narratives and so do this particular generation of students. They shared themes that pertain the kind of reality they are immersed in at this very moment. Sharing stories can be a means of entertainment, cultural preservation or instilling moral values, but it can also be a way for educators to enhance their instructional strategies. Bellow, they summarized their experience by explaining how they think storytelling can improve teaching.
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Group Members: Camila Neumann, Isabella Iglesias, Danielle McIntosh, Chelsea Jocelyn, Christina Beltran, Paige Cilluffo
Using storytelling helps you teach theater because it helps you focus and improve communication, performance, public speaking
and your confidence. It would help the students to use imagination to entertain
others. This exercise helps students work on beginning, middle, and end and
using expression to tell and elaborate on them. If someone else told their
peers story you are also honing on memorization skills which is important in
the theater.
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Group Members: Mackenzie Buckley, Destiny Washington, Masai Rains, Tiffany Chalhoub, Angela Moon, Carmen Boyd
This activity can help in theater because as long as the person internalizes the story and believes that they are telling the story as their own, they will be successful in convincing others that they are telling the truth. That is the essence of acting: convincing others. Practice makes perfect and if they tell the story to themselves over and over again, it will become true to them and can be told seamlessly and successfully.
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Group Members: Gillian Sutherland, Sally Salkini, Ana T. Moreno, Alexia Hirlemann, Joseph Jackson
The activity helps teaching theater; when the students tell
the stories they can act them out in creative ways. They also learn how to
develop a story in a timely and structured manner (beginning, middle and end).
They learn how to tell someone else’s story making them feel more comfortable
with their classmate since they were able to share a personal story.
I completely agree with the idea that story telling is a great way to introduce students to theater! I really like the idea that the 3rd group included, that practicing the stories would eventually lead to them becoming true. This allows for great delivery in theater, and extremely convincing acting skills. (Marissa Hanson)
ReplyDeleteI believe this activity was very beneficial to the students and would be beneficial to younger kids as well. The activity helped students with theater because they understood how to recreate and act out a story from their past, which allowed them to understand how they should do the same with any scene in that theater class. It also allowed students to feel more comfortable with themselves and their classmates because everyone had a funny, embarrassing, heroic, or even tragic story to share, which made everyone feel closer to one another.
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Story telling is a way to get students to use their creativity without even realizing they are doing so. Telling a story and having to figure out who the story was about is also a fun way to have students' use their critical thinking as well. This activity was also a fun way to get to know each other a little bit better, especially when hearing the embarrassing stories, which I loved. - Tiffany
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