We as storytellers

One day, Raquel came into the classroom and put her power point about Storytelling. When she asked us about "what  we thing about it", inmediately I thougth about the storytelling who came to our village in summer. In my opinion, it is very difficult to transmit a story to children, because you have to catch their attention during all the performance with your voice, your gesture, your experience.

Then, Raquel showed us an awesome storyteller, Michael Rosen. When I saw him, I thought that he was a little bit strange, but during the story I changed my opinion, he was amazing! He knows perfectly how to use the voices, the gestures, and also the entonation to catch our attention. It is incredible how he reaches his objective without any objects or context around him, he only uses stories in which children can feel reflected on them.

In this link you can find an awesome story called Chocolate Cake.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BxQLITdOOc

After that, we had the oportunity to create our own story and told our classmates in class. This part of the activity was very funny because we had the opportunity to create the gestures, the topic and a wonderful power point. Our story was about the real History of the Trojans and the Greeks. We wanted to relate it with History because is a good way to remember the real events.

Here you have our story:

Once upon a time there was a beautiful Greek princess called Helena. One day, she decided to escape for love with the Trojan prince Paris. The news reached Greece. They became angry and they decided to invade Troy.

After 10 years of war, the Greeks built a huge wood horse with soldiers inside.

-          “Toc, toc” said the horse

-          “Who is there?” asked the Trojans

-          “I´m a Greek peace present” said the horse

-          “OK. Welcome to Troy” said the Trojans

When the night felt, while the Trojans were sleeping, the Greek soldiers fought and fought and fought and the Greeks beat the Trojans. The beautiful Greek princess with the Trojan prince come back home and they lived together happily ever after.

And here you can see our performance in class.

Thanks for your attention.

Isabel