Narrative+Communication

=Narrative Digital Stories=

Narrative | Informative/Expository | Persuasive

Personal Expression
Messages sharing experiences, feelings or points of view.
 * How Do Groups Work Together? (Suggested Grade 1): Students digitally illustrate how groups should work together.
 * One Thing That is Different About Me? (Suggested Grade 1): Through an image/s of self, students tell what makes them different and why it makes them special.
 * What Makes You Important to Your Family? (Suggested Grade 1): Through an image/s of self, students tell what makes them important to their family.
 * Careers (Suggested Grade 1): After studying careers, students express what they would like to be and tell what that career does.
 * The Important Think about //school//: Collaboratively as grade levels or a school create a story about what is important about their school.

Short Story
Fictional stories including plot, setting, characters.
 * Creative Writing - students put their stories into digital form

Myths/Folk Tales
Stories made up to explain origins, values or beliefs. Cultural stories developed and modified by groups of people over time.
 * Tall Tales - Students can write/narrate their own variations of tall tales.
 * Innovations on Text (Fractured Fairytales): Adapting a story from a different point of view (Ex. Goldisocks and the Three Libearians)

Docu-Drama
Non-fiction stories with plot, setting, characters. A television or movie dramatization of events based on fact. Fact based using an abundance of [|primary source] materials.
 * Explorers project - Students could tell the facts from the point of view of the explorer (i.e. narrated diary/log.)
 * Create docudramas about life as an immigrant.

Documentary options: .
 * 3rd person narrator
 * 1st person protagonist (Moore)
 * 1st person included (Burns)
 * 1st immersive (King John)
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