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Program DescriptionHappenin’ Holidays is not your usual holiday fare! These stories are inspired by traditional folktales, but each has received a Winter Holiday makeover that turns it into an interactive celebration of multiple intelligences! Add a song here, a chant there, lots of kinesthetic fun and a bit of imagination -- and the magic happens! For school audiences, Sherry quickly introduces the original tale, then reveals to the audience the creative writing tricks that give a plain old story a holiday twist. (If requested, Sherry will lead the audience in creating their very own Holiday Tale!) Artist BioSherry Norfolk is an acclaimed performer, appearing in Hong Kong, Anchorage, the Bahamas, Honolulu, Grand Canyon National Park and hundreds of points in between. With a B.A. in Elementary Education and a Masters in Library Science, she performs and teaches storytelling residencies through Young Audiences Woodruff Arts Center, Springboard to Learning / Young Audiences of St. Louis, and several state arts councils. Sherry is co-author with her husband Bobby of The Moral of the Story: Folktales for Character Development, 2nd Ed. (August House, 2006), and co-editor of The Storytelling Classroom: Applications Across the Curriculum (Libraries Unlimited, 2006). Background on Art FormStorytelling is the art of using words, gestures, facial expression, and body language to bring a story to life in the listener’s imagination. From the beginning of time, storytelling has been the way cultures have preserved and celebrated their memories, passed on their values and belief systems, entertained, instructed and reported. Today, storytelling is recognized as one of the most effective brain-compatible teaching strategies, accessible for children with diverse abilities and disabilities, and applicable to all “ways of knowing.” Storytelling continues to invite us all to “Enter the Theater of the Mind-the Imagination!” Pre/Post ActivitiesPrepare (Pre- or pre-performance)Teachers, please read this to your students: In our assembly today, we’re going to participate in a storytelling performance by Sherry Norfolk. PARTICIPATE means that you’ll be part of the program – as good listeners, using your imagination to “see” the characters, setting, and action. Sometimes, you may be invited to use your brains, voice and hands to help bring a story to life. Sherry says that storytelling is the most fun when the storyteller and the listeners work together to create the story – so let’s make this a fun experience for everyone! Warm Up Questions to set the stage for engaging students:
Reflect (Post- or post-performance)Quick Writes: take 5 minutes to write about the story that was most memorable to you. What made it memorable? Making it Personal: Write a journal entry about the scariest thing you can think of. Why does it scare you so much? Would it be as scary for others as it is for you? Additional Activities The stories told during this program are all based on the patterns of traditional folktales. Lead the class in creating their own original holiday story, using these questions: Too Noisy!After the new story is complete, tell it with the class providing the sounds, then do it as a play, with everyone involved! You can use this format to create stories about almost any curriculum topic. Vocabulary
Winter Holidays – Collective term for Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year’s Resources for Teachers & Students |
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