SESSION TWELVE: APPRECIATING FOLKLORE AS A
LITERARY GENRE (CONTINUED)
Specific
Objectives:
- to expand the appreciation of folktales as a genre.
- to reinforce the use of story structure as a framework for both
understanding and remembering stories.
- to heighten response and apply literature to life - inferring
themes.
- to practice fix-up strategies for inferring word meanings from
context.
Procedure
Introduction
The instructor:
- Recaps the story map outlining Episode 1 of The Weaving of a
Dream
- Reviews the story map for texts with multiple episodes (Box 16,
Appendix E) and
- Directs participants to:
a) reread the story The
Weaving of a Dream: and
b) complete their story maps.
II. Group Activity/Task
In small groups,
participants and volunteers complete the reading of The Weaving of a
Dream and fill in their story map.
III. Summarizing
Concepts
The instructor:
- Leads a discussion with participants comparing their
independently completed maps for The Weaving of a Dream with
a sample map. (Refer to Boxes 18 and 19 for sample maps of Episodes
2, 3 and 4.)
NOTE: The instructor's version of
the story map serves as a guide to the discussion. There is no one "correct"
map.
- Facilitates a discussion regarding the overall theme(s) or
message of the story (see Theme, Box 19) and
- Based on words identified by the participants as troublesome,
conducts a
mini- lesson on word meanings either at this time or
in the next session.
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