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Podcasting unit on folktales

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A podcasting unit on folktales

 

Chris Polley, a graduate student at the University of Minnesota, developed the following unit on podcasting for high school students. While Polley uses the text The People Could Fly by Virginia Hamilton, you could substitute your own favorite folktale.

 

 

Objectives

Students will demonstrate understanding of how stories are different when told rather than read, especially within the historical context of a folktale.

Students will use clues and evidence from the text to devise possible ways to perform the text in a podcast and research information regarding their respective folktales.

Students will edit both the writing of the folktale and the production of the podcast for coherence and fluidity.

 

Standards Met

Make inferences and draw conclusions based on explicit and implied information from texts.

Read, analyze and evaluate traditional, classical and contemporary works of literary merit from American literature.

Revise writing for clarity, coherence, smooth transitions and unity.

 

 

Activities

Students will work together to decide on what makes a story different when it is told rather than when it is read; they’ll perform folktales from The People Could Fly aloud.

 

Students will map out ways in which they could enhance the stories even further using methods of sound production (incorporating music, sound effects, actors vs. narrators, etc.) and will also research the origins of the folktale chosen to perform and record.

 

Students will record, produce, and publish a podcast for a story in The People Could Fly, featuring the just mentioned elements, including an informational intro and exit about the folktale’s origins. The stories will be presented to the class, accompanied by explanations for their choices of audio additions to the story. The podcasts will be available for all students to subscribe to.

 

 

Assessment(s)

Activity A: participation in contributing to initial discussion and performing a story for the class/small group.

Activity B: evidence of brainstorming with at least five audio modifications offered for their podcast of the folktale.

Activity C: final product of podcast; assessent based on modifications made, originality of interpretation and performance, inclusion of researched information about the folktale, and completion of podcast.

 

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