Our 5th grade Drama course focuses on the theme of Dramatic Storytelling. Whether it's telling stories in a frozen Tableaux or using our voices to convey different characters or interpreting family folktales in a dramatic format or creating our own unique fairytales to perform, this first year course introduces students to the performing arts where all students can easily access the curriculum and art form.
This winter, students are taking family stories and dramatically performing them in small groups. They are researching from their families, uncovering stories from when their elders first started school, and then they are script-writing, creating characters, and rehearsing these stories for a dramatic performance. Storytelling as an art form has been around for thousands of years as a way to pass on family legacies and as a way of teaching future generations. You can check out lots of family folklore storytellers on YouTube, as well as a sample of Native American storytelling on this link: Native American storytelling conference: Smithsonian Museum
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