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First Nations, Métis and Inuit Stories
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Educational Resources
Oral Storytelling
Lesson 1
Overview
Writing Your Own Story
Prerequisite Learning
- Students are familiar with the terms: plot, character, setting, moral of a story and point of view.
- Students are familiar with the writing process (brainstorming, drafting, revising, etc.)
Learning Outcomes
In this lesson, students will be able to:
- identify different types of stories, as well as significant elements in a story.
- recall and relate, in their own words, the major parts of a story and its supporting details.
- discuss their own and others' understanding of various community and cultural traditions, in various times and places, as portrayed in texts.
- create a new story or re-design a familiar one.
Activity 1.1
Exploring Aboriginal Stories
The teacher will retell an Aboriginal story using Storytelling Hints and invite the students to explore a variety of story examples.
Activity 1.2
Writing a Cultural Story
Students will write their own original story or re-write a story they are familiar with.
Evaluation Tools
Participation
Writing a Story
