Bring the timeless art of storytelling to life with an interactive class that combines history, creativity, and fun.
What’s Covered?
Students will explore the importance of storytelling across cultures and history, playing games like telephone to see how oral traditions evolve over time. They’ll listen to engaging American and California folktales, gaining insight into the historical events and legends of the region. Equipped with props and costumes like hats and boots, students will then craft and perform their own original stories. This immersive activity fosters creativity, teamwork, and a deeper appreciation for the power of storytelling!
Educational Standards
Applicable Standards:
- SS 1.5: Students describe the human characteristics of familiar places and the varied backgrounds of American citizens and residents in those places.
- 1.5.1: Recognize the ways in which they are all part of the same community, sharing principles, goals, and traditions despite their varied ancestry; the forms of diversity in their school and community; and the benefits and challenges of a diverse population.
- SS 4.2: Students describe the social, political, cultural, and economic life and interactions among people of California from the pre-Columbian societies to the Spanish mission and Mexican rancho periods.
- SS 6.4: Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social
structures of the early civilizations of Ancient Greece.- 6.4.4: Explain the significance of Greek mythology to the everyday life of people in the region and how Greek literature continues to permeate our literature and language today, drawing from Greek mythology and epics, such as Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, and from Aesop’s Fables.
- SS 6.7: Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures during the development of Rome.
- 6.7.1: Identify the location and describe the rise of the Roman Republic, including the importance of such mythical and historical figures as Aeneas, Romulus and Remus, Cincinnatus, Julius Caesar, and Cicero.
- SS 7.7: Students compare and contrast the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the Meso-American and Andean civilizations.
- 7.7.4: Describe the artistic and oral traditions and architecture in the three civilizations.