Folk Tales/Storytelling: Past and Present

Description: Storytelling is an old tradition and is found in all

cultures and countries. With the advancement of technology
and communication tools, the ways and modes of storytelling
have changed. This project aims to revive the tradition of
storytelling through digital tools and connect students from
different parts of the world on the project forum to share
their stories, experiences and aspirations.

Students will share their stories through any digital form they
wish to use (video, audio, text, or photos). They will also record
their elders and community leaders telling stories and will
share them on the project forum. This will help them learn and
practice digital tools and media production skills and get
connected with students from around the world.

Live communication is an important aspect of today’s global

citizenship. Skype and other tools will be used to conduct live
storytelling sessions. Another important feature of this
project is inclusion of student-facilitators and student-
trainers who will co-facilitate the project activities and train
their peers through face-to-face and online training workshops.
This way they will play their role as active and responsible
digital natives.
Folk Tales/Storytelling: Past and Present
Implementation Plan

Objectives

Students will learn about different stories told by adults to

children from other countries across the globe using
technology.

Students will learn that some stories will sound similar to

stories they have heard but characters might be different.

Students will be able to identify a lesson to be learned in the stories.

Standards

ISTE- Global Collaborator- Students use digital tools to

broaden their perspectives and enrich their learning by
collaborating with others and working effectively in teams
locally and globally.

R.I.2.2- Recount stories, including fables and folktales from

diverse cultures, and determine their central message,
lesson, or moral.

R.I. 2.3- Describe how characters in a story respond to

major events and challenges.

Speaking and Listening 2.4- Tell a story or recount an

experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive
details, speaking audibly in coherent sentences
Introduction

May Day 1-Students will be read two stories, Diamond

Cut Diamond and The King and His Daughters.
Students will compare and contrast these two stories
and write about the similarities and differences and
determine the lesson or moral in the story.

May Day 2- Students will be presented to a PPT “Introduction to

Folktales” by Farah Kamal. This ppt will introduce the
writing process for a folktale/fairytale. Students will
go home and ask parents, grandparents, and others in
their family about stories told to them as children.

May Day 3- Students will begin rough draft of

folktale, revise, edit, and write final. This will take
about a week.

May Part 2- Students will be recorded reading or

retelling their folktale/fairytale and telling us the
lesson. These will be posted on interactive forum.

Student Learning
Students learned that other countries have stories that have
lessons and morals to be learned. They also learned that
although stories are very different some have similar lessons to
be learned in the story. In a whole group setting students were
projected various stories from Pakistan. They learned to
collaborate with each other and come to a decision of the moral
or lesson learned in each story. They also viewed photographs
from the website to see the difference of clothing style,
housing, and weather of Pakistanis. They also learned and
discussed the similarities each country has and how they are
also similar to themselves.
Students discussed and recorded the lessons and morals of folktales.
They also wrote a paragraph of how the Folktales from Pakistan have
similar morals to stories they have heard in our states.