Evaluating a storytelling performance
Your teacher will organise you into small groups or give you instructions to guide this activity. In your groups discuss the art of storytelling by thinking about:
- your PMIs and evaluations from the previous activity
- your own ideas about what makes telling a story appealing to an audience
- what you could add to a performance to enhance it
- things a storyteller should avoid when telling a story to an audience.
Keep a note of all the ideas your group comes up with.
Your teacher will organise a class discussion. Share your group's ideas with the whole class. Add extra points to your own notes.
Now complete a Y-chart which records the ideas from your group and class discussion. Think about what storytelling looks like, feels like and sounds like. Use the Y-chart at the link below.
Evaluating a storytelling session means that you will need to think about two aspects:
- what you see
- what you hear.
What are some of the benefits of learning the art of storytelling? Discuss this question with someone else and write your ideas in your journal. If your teacher instructs you to do so, discuss with the rest of your class.
