Thursday, September 16, 2010

Why Do We Tell Stories?

Hello everyone! I am still  in Shanghai, but I want  for you to start thinking about our upcoming unit. This post is for grades six and seven. Today in class you discussed what makes stories great. You heard a few exciting stories and some others that were a bit dull. You thought about what made the stories fun and what made them boring.

Now watch this video about story telling:



I want you to think about why  we tell stories.
Write a thoughtful paragraph about everything you have been thinking about in class. Use the questions below to guide your writing:

You shared some of your favorite fairy tales, stories from your culture, or movies. Think about:

Why do you like them?
Which ones does everybody know?
What is it about these stories that make them so fun to listen to?

Please cut and paste your paragraph and leave it as a comment on this post. If you are having trouble adding a comment, please email me or ask a friend.

8 comments:

  1. In good stories there are scary or funny or sad things and feelings to make people wanted to read more and more. In a story there will have a problem to make it good. Good stories should teach us something. Good stories need to have a plot. Good stories connect us to the same way. If we tell stories to people, people will think, “this book is so good I am going to read it” and by telling stories we could express our self and connect to each other. By telling stories to people, people can have knowledge and new words.

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  2. What make a good story


    A good story has a funny line so people will laugh and like it and read it until finish. A good story can change who you are .We tell story so people can remember our story and share it to other because story sometimes can connect. Sometimes it help you when you are bored and make us laugh too if the story not bored. The famous stories that people know is Wall-E,UP, Little Red Riding Hood

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  3. What makes a good story?

    The story needs a beginning, middle and end. This is called the plot. The story also needs funny part so it will entertain people and maybe something scary or frightening. The story should have a setting, teach a moral, title, characters, and can make us change. We tell stories to entertain people and to connect to other people.

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  4. What makes a good story?

    The story must have a funny character and serious story so people things that the story is good. Some story can tell more words then you know and it can give more information. The story can be serious, funny, sad, scary etc.
    Some story makes some people connect peoples.

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  5. What makes a good story?

    The story could be scary, funny, and cool so people want to read, listen, and watch the story. Other people write story that is fantasy that have dragons, monsters, witches and many more.
    People want to listen to story because sometimes they make funny stuff happen to the character. Sometimes we could learn something in the story. People tell story so other people can have a good laugh, make them sad, and make them frighten or make them happy.

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  6. The story needs a beginning, middle and end. This is called the plot. The story also needs funny part so it will entertain people and maybe something scary or frightening. The story should have a setting, teach a moral, title, characters, and can make us change. We tell stories to entertain people and to connect to other people.

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  7. Story is something can make somebody free for expression. Some story maybe fiction or true story. With story, we can tell what we going to say. We can express our self. However, in story we must have message or moral for that story. Film is story too. In story, we must make people happy, sad, angry or the people responding to a story that we make

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  8. Story is something make somebody free for expression. With story, we can tell what we going to say. We can express our self. However, in story we must have message or moral for that story. Film is story too. In story, we must make people happy, sad, angry or the people responding to a story that we make

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