Family stories or oral histories serve often as entertainment or education about important information, values, beliefs, or morals. Others involve major trials or successes faced by older relatives; some are cultural legends or myths about certain ways
of life.
1. Consider telling a story based on one of the following options:
Family history or knowledge passed from multiple generations
A story retold in your family for entertainment, information, values, beliefs or morals
A personal experience you want to share with future generations
2.
Develop a plan with detailed notes about the story or traditional knowledge you choose to share.
3. Download the worksheet containing all the components for this assignment, from the 'worksheet & assessment' tab.
4.
Present your story or personal traditional history in one of the following formats. Attach your finished work to be assessed.
Complete all
steps in the regular assignment
plus one
additional option from those listed below. When additional work is well done, your mark will increase!
Re-tell an additional story
as a second presentation (Review the presentation options in
Extra Help .) Include details or effects that make it funny, scary, or suspenseful.
Record
someone in your family or circle of friends telling a popular story, or make a recording of that person and you telling the story together through a conversation or other
means.
In your plan, describe the speaker you record if it is not yourself. Who is it? How is this person significant to you and to this story?
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