Summative Task #1: Individual Storytelling Performance
Students will choose a story to individually perform that integrates different types of performance elements covered in class.
Websites to find stories:
Aaron Shepard's storytelling
Story Arts
Storyteller.net
Many links here
Steps to find a story to perform:
Explanation for assignment: http://goo.gl/zsQl5Y
Elements of voice and storytelling that we discussed in class found below. Use these to help you respond to your own performance. For students looking to score higher in the criteria, you can choose a classmate's performance to respond to.
USE THESE QUESTIONS BEFORE to prepare for, DURING and AFTER to respond to your performance:
How will you set up the stage?
Where will your audience sit?
Who is your story appropriate for?
How will you begin?
Do you have a storytelling bridge?
Have you scored your script? (See Handout)
How will you use a pause to create dramatic effect?
Can you integrate different voices?
Can you integrate sound effects or music?
Use at least one costume piece or prop.
How will you know whether your audience is still with you?
How will you create suspense? A climax?
How will you end?
Websites to find stories:
Aaron Shepard's storytelling
Story Arts
Storyteller.net
Many links here
Steps to find a story to perform:
- Find a story- Use the websites I have listed or use google search to find your own. It should be minimum two minutes, maximum five minutes. Try to find a story that can be PERFORMED! It is preferable that it is a traditional tale or a publish story (ie not written by an 8 year old and publish on the internet)
- Share your story with Ms Doty to make sure it will work for this assignment
- Time yourself reading the story to check the length!
- Copy your story text into a google doc in your Drama folder
Explanation for assignment: http://goo.gl/zsQl5Y
Elements of voice and storytelling that we discussed in class found below. Use these to help you respond to your own performance. For students looking to score higher in the criteria, you can choose a classmate's performance to respond to.
- Energy!!
- Choice of story
- Pronunciation, enunciation, articulation
- eye contact
- pause at beginning
- pauses throughout
- PACING- too fast?
- tone
- inflection
- how did you use the "stage"
- use of gestures
- time- too short or long?
- prepared, practiced?
- annotated script?
USE THESE QUESTIONS BEFORE to prepare for, DURING and AFTER to respond to your performance:
How will you set up the stage?
Where will your audience sit?
Who is your story appropriate for?
How will you begin?
Do you have a storytelling bridge?
Have you scored your script? (See Handout)
How will you use a pause to create dramatic effect?
Can you integrate different voices?
Can you integrate sound effects or music?
Use at least one costume piece or prop.
How will you know whether your audience is still with you?
How will you create suspense? A climax?
How will you end?