178 Fables and Stories: Supplemental Guide 10B | All Stories Are Anansi’s
Extensions 20 minutes
My Story: Write
- Review the class’s brainstorm for characters, setting, and plot. Go
over the choices the class has made about character(s), setting(s),
and plot for their story. - Give each student a piece of construction paper or large-sized paper.
Help students fold their paper into thirds. - Tell students that they will be drawing the beginning, middle, and end
of their story. The top part should show the beginning of their story,
the middle part should show the middle of the story, and the bottom
part should show the end of the story. - Some students may be able to write a short sentence about each
picture. - After students finish their drawing of the beginning, middle, and end
of their story, have students think of a title for their story and help
them write their title at the top. - Have students tell their story to their partner or to their home-
language peers. Encourage students to use an opening statement
and a closing statement like the ones they have heard in the stories.
[You may wish to provide examples from the text of the stories.] - Help students recognize that although the character(s), setting(s), and
perhaps parts of the plot are the same, their story is unique because
it includes their own drawings, and the events in their story might be
different from each other. - If time allows, you may want to look into an electronic publishing
program (such as iMovie; or iPublish) or scan your students’ drawings
and create a slide presentation (using PowerPoint); or bind the pages
to make a book to put in the class library for students to read again
and again.
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