Storytelling
List 5 different ways we can tell stories
Books, movies, t.v shows, speaking, poems, drawings/pictures, etc.
What is Culture?
The storyline, the events that occur in a story.
What is Salience?
His skin was green — not the green of grass or leaves, but the deep, murky green of a swamp at dusk. He was enormous, with hands like shovels and shoulders as wide as a doorframe. His ears stuck out slightly and his eyebrows were permanently low, giving him the look of someone who had just been interrupted doing something important. He wasn't ugly exactly — he was just a lot. A lot of everything. And despite all of that, his eyes, if you looked carefully, were surprisingly kind.
Shrek!
What is Oral Storytelling?
Stories passed through generations through speaking.
List 3 synonyms for culture (words that have the same or a similar meaning):
Lifestyle, traditions, beliefs.
What is the narrative structure tool we used when planning our stories this term?
The Boomerang Narrative Model
What is Colour Symbolism?
Colours used to represent a deeper meaning.
She wore a dress that had once been beautiful — you could still see that, if you looked carefully. It was blue and silver and torn at the edges, and on one foot she wore a single glass shoe that caught the light every time she moved. Her hair was golden and pinned up simply, and there was something about the way she held herself — straight-backed and gentle at the same time — that made her seem like someone who had survived something difficult without letting it make her cruel.
Cinderella!
How does music/song tell stories?
By sharing feelings and experiences, sometimes even retelling significant events or people.
Name 3 aspects of the culture wheel:
Greater Community, Knowledge and Stories, Language, Traditions and Rituals, Techniques and Skills, Tools and Objects, The Arts, Food and Drink, Values
What do we call a main character in a story?
BONUS POINTS: what do we call the "bad guy" in a story?
The protagonist.
BONUS POINTS: the antagonist.
What are Reading Paths in an image?
The order we look at things in an image.
He was a bear, but not the kind you would find in a forest. He wore a small, battered red hat and a duffle coat the colour of dark toffee, with buttons that never seemed to stay done up properly. His fur was the warm brown of a just-made cup of tea, and he had the polite, slightly puzzled expression of someone who finds the world endlessly confusing but endlessly interesting. He had arrived from somewhere far away and carried with him a small suitcase and very good manners.
Paddington Bear!
What is an example of Visual Storytelling we studied this term?
Picture books
In culture: what are "values"?
BONUS POINTS: give an example!
Values are the things which cultures/societies find to be important.
BONUS POINTS: for example, respecting elders.
What are the two different types of characters?
BONUS POINTS: what type of character is a protagonist? What type of character is a supporting character?
Flat and Dimensional
BONUS POINTS: protagonist = dimensional, supporting character = flat
What are Vectors?
Vectors are the lines that lead your eye from one thing to another.
He was made entirely of wood, which should have been obvious, and yet somehow you kept forgetting. His nose was the most noticeable thing about him, long and pointed, jutting straight out from his face like a small branch.
He wore a little hat with a feather in it and a pair of shorts, and his expression was always caught somewhere between total confidence and complete cluelessness. When he told the truth, nothing happened. When he didn't, well... you would know.
Pinocchio!
According to 7Opals... why is storytelling important?
Latin & Medieval French!
There are 7 parts to the Boomerang Narrative Model. Name all 7 in order!
Name 3 colours and something they could symbolise.
E.g. red = romance.
She wore a white apron over a plain blue dress, neat and practical. Her hair was dark and pulled back tidily. In one hand she carried a bag that appeared, by all logic, to be far too small for everything she pulled out of it. She moved with the brisk certainty of someone who has never once been late and never intends to start. Her expression suggested that she found most things mildly disappointing — and that she was entirely confident she could fix them.
Mary Poppins!