Storytelling (24.3.2011) - Fable
(Every cloud has a silver lining)
A FAT JACKRABBIT
Once upon a time there was a big family of jackrabbits. This batch of jackrabbits lived in a very nice place full of green grass and fresh vegetable. And every year they were collecting food to their pantry for the winter times. It was already autumn and their pantry was nearly full of good food but one day they found that somebody ate almost the half of all food there. Immediately they suspected that Jack, a fat jackrabbit did it because he was in comparison to the others of his family very fat and he was always hungry and also quite unpopular as a result of his physical appearance. Therefore the head of the jackrabbit family banished him from their house and from their village although Jack denied all the charges but no one believed him.
Jack, with his sad heart full of bitterness, wandered aimless through the countryside without any hope of living after the coming winter. As he rambled he saw a beautiful female jackrabbit caught in a snare at the point of death. He saved her and fall in love with her at first sight. He helped her to recover and finally Jane took him to her family in the North where she had lived before she was caught into the snare. Jack´s courage and strength impressed Jane so much that she fell in love with him, too.
His family banished him and he was unhappy there but now he found a new family which accepted him with love and where he felt happy as never before and also being fat was advantage in that cold North country.
Misha L. and Laura S.
Storytelling with Jacob (Photo story)
Storytelling ...implies the study of narratives used for a (well-defined) purpose (and not just the narratives themselves). ex.: corporate storytelling, storytelling as branding, political storytelling, personal s., educational/pedagogical s. ...
The following short film Aqualorius was a source of our next discussion focused on the story of the film, whre is turning point (peripeteia) and discovery/recognition (anagnorisis). So you can try to find it for yourself. Where is the turning point = action? Is it the fight between the boy ant the monster or whre? And where is the discovery point? And what is it? Let think about it after watching the film.
After the discussion followed our own work. Our task was to make our own story consisting from 5 pictures on certain topic, certain word we had chosen. Our word was BEAUTY.
The following video is a story made from photos, which was our task during the storytelling lesson.
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