GIAL 5357 (2008)
Karl J. Franklin
| Storytelling Syllabus
Loosen Your Tongue |
PP: An alternative strategy
Alternative strategy Part I Alternative strategy Part II |
| Contents and Orientation
Activities: What cultural tradition does your story depict? Outline your own cultural tradition of storytelling (or lack thereof) Questions and quotations |
The Nature of Storytelling.
Definition of storytelling (Wikipedia) Schank—Tell me a story Frequently Asked Questions about storytelling Etic& Emic stories Note websites: http://courses.unt.edu/efiga/STORYTELLING/StorytellingWebsites.htm |
| The “Big Idea” in a story
PP: Medical Humor Questions about laughter and humor Activity: Share a funny moment from your childhood Questions and quotations |
Imagination and humor in storytelling.
Mellon — Habit of imagining The grammar of fantasy–Rodari See also Once Upon a More Enlightened Time Comics [A workshop on line] The habit of imagining — Moffett |
| Telling Stories
Process John Walsh, The art of storytelling |
Process and performance in storytelling
The way of the storyteller–Sawyer MacDonald’s storyteller’s start-up book Lipman improving your storytelling How the Kewa tell stories (illustrations from LeRoy and McDonald); Storytelling in organizations–Springboard Making Stories.net Plot Motifs (Dictionary of Biblical Imagery) Activity: Make up a story based on Kewa pictures Questions and quotations |
| Memory and Storytelling Stories to remember: Companions to the Bible
Activity: Practice telling the sequence of stories on the scarf. Questions and quotations |
Mnemonic representations
Cloth and Scarf: See: http://www.storyingscarf.com http://www.edupatterns.com/bible_story_mat.htm http://www.chronologicalbiblestorying.com/for a Bible Storying Manual by J.O. Terry http://library.thinkquest.org/C0110291/tricks/mnemonics/index.php for Mnemonic devices http://www.whatwouldjesusdownload.com/products.html for Scripture memory |
| Story Audiences
Location Activities: Take a well-known children’s story and retell it to a group of adults; Do the same with an adult story for children. Attempt to identify Bible stories for the various age groups Questions and quotations
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Story selection and audience; Planning and implementing an event. The risks of storytelling.
Creating enough information for the background. Mary Hamilton—Telling stories for different ages at http://www.maryhamilton.info/Articles/differentages.htm Power of storytelling–Mellon Teaching values.com |
| Socializing and Cultural Aspects
Oral traditions
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Socialization and storytelling; Management
Worldview jargon at http://www.ccojubilee.org/resources/theology/wvjargon.html (See also Colson and Buckley) The Story Factor—Simmons Murphy on Fairy Tales Franklin on Melanesian Worldview African Money Matters – D. Maranz Skim Pratt and Fiese (2004)to understand some dynamics of how children learn in other cultures; Activity: Tell a story of a lesson learned from your parents or a sibling. Questions and quotations |
| Recording Stories
Foxfire series and Oral History See also: Chanting Activity: Outline a set of questions for eliciting a family story. Questions and quotations |
Recording Stories.
Recording, editing and presenting a family history; Greene and Fulford questions to on various topics Timelessness of stories–Spaeth Story themes (PNG) Social dynamics–Lawrence Follow the options at the following URL for Fieldworks: http://www.sil.org/computing/catalog/show_software.asp?id=115 |
| Kinds of Stories History and Values in Stories
Propaganda Urban legends at http://www.snopes.com/ Truth or Fiction at http://www.truthorfiction.com/about.htm |
Story Genres.
Pete Unseth on Proverbs in Africa adventure, history, allegories, holiday, ballads, jokes, beast, legends, Bible, literary, episodic, myths, fables, fairy, parables, poems, family, tall tales, ghost, true; See also http://virtual.park.uga.edu/~clandrum/orallist.html for oral lore of various types: animal tale, calls, chants, urban legends, curses, fable, jingles & rhymes, jokes, laments, merry tale, myth, oral history, prayers, proverbs, riddles, etc. www.recreate.com/Pages/articles/hqeisler.shtml McKenna on parables Osborne on parables Activity: Pick two genres and tell the same story using each of them. Questions and quotations |
| Bible Stories
Rick Brown – Muslim worldviews I Article II Activity: Develop and practice a Bible story. Questions and quotations |
Bible Stories and Worldview
Storyteller’s Companion to the Bible, edited by Michael E. Williams; JOBS at http://www.nobs.org/journal.htm and ABS at http://www.nobs.org/abs.html on their new Academy on Storytelling African Friends and Money Matters by Maranz Bible storytelling workshop at http://www.godspell.org.uk/pages/workshop.html Making disciples of oral learners (Lausanne Occasional Paper No. 54, p.26 for chart that includes story and WV) |
| orality at http://www.chronologicalbiblestorying.com
Activity: Prepare a chronological sequence of Bible stories. Questions and quotations |
Chronological Bible Storying
See various subsites at: http://www.newwway.org/strategy_network/storying_resources/Default.htm Links and resources: http://www.chronologicalbiblestorying.com/links.htm Story and ministry–Steffen See worldview by Slack at http://www.chronologicalbiblestorying.com/articles/why_worldview.htm Wright on worldview, stories, etc. Oral Bible and International Orality Network |
| Songs and Drama
Lord on Songs Activity: Take a Bible story and convert it into a song or play. Questions and quotations |
Songs and Drama
Brian Schrag on songs and music in storytelling; Schrag on resources in ethnomusicology From one medium to another, edited by Hodgson and Soukup; Chanted scripture at http://spark.vernacularmedia.org/documents/info/235; Song/Chant at http://spark.vernacularmedia.org/media_types/info/36 Finnegan on Poetry |
| Short Presentations | See: www.storycorps.net/listen.
Presentation rubric and checklists |
| Oral Lore
Newsweek on: Oral History (website) and Oral History notes |
Folklore analysis
Definition of folklore and related categories: Skim Indonesian Handbook Story dynamics–Lipman Example narratives: slaves Questions and quotations |
| Linguistics and Stories
Constructing Stories |
Semantics and storytelling; Story structures
Cf. Effective Storytelling: A manual for beginners by Barry McWilliams Foregrounding by David S. Miall Quasthoff on Aspects of oral communication Cognition and narrative –Richard van Oort Blended Spaces and Cognitive Linguistics Women and Fire (Lakoff) notes on Cognitive Linguistics Questions and quotations |
| Reading aloud
Mike Trainum at: http://www.shellbook.com http://newwway.org/literacy.htm Questions and quotations |
Storytelling and literacy
The oral and the written in SIL fieldwork Enhancing literacy through storytelling—Teresa Cherry-Cruz Review by Jim and Janet Stahl |
| Examining Stories
PNG workshops on storytelling (Sundaun & Sepik areas) Questions and quotations To our children’s children (To help you on your short presentation) |
Storytelling and translation
Freddy Boswell DVD drama on John Wycliffe Fidelity and translation, edited by Soukup et al. Translating and Storytelling – Franklin Answers to a translator by Franklin |
| Short Presentations | Something on “Family History” |
| Long Presentations | Suggestions for presentations |
| Long Presentations | Public |
| Evaluate and Review
Major paper is due at the beginning of the class Questions |
SM: Concluding remarks and implications for training (The Oral and the Written)
Mentoring by Franklin |
| Student contributions: Major papers, book reviews and book or web annotations |
Some web resources to note*:
http://www.storynet.org/ [… a non-profit member driven organization dedicated to advancing the art of storytelling – as performing art, teaching aid, and cultural transformation process….”]
http://www.storytellingcenter.net/ [“The International Storytelling Center is dedicated to improving the lives of people around the world through the power of storytelling.
The InternationalStorytellingCenter inspires and empowers people around the world to capture and tell their stories, listen to the stories of others, and use storytelling to produce positive change. For, through the power of storytelling, we can build a better world—healthier communities, more effective workplaces and schools of learning, and enriched human life.”]
http://www.healingstory.org/ [“Our purpose is to explore and promote the use of storytelling in healing. Our goal for this special interest group is to share our experience and our skills, to increase our knowledge of stories and our knowledge of the best ways to use stories to inform, inspire, nurture and heal. We also wish to reach beyond our storytelling community to share with those in other service professions; therapists, clergy, health care practitioners of all kinds, anyone who can see the benefit of story as a tool for healing.”]
http://www.timeslips.org [“The Time Slips Project has generated hundreds of stories, produced plays and art exhibits, and rekindled the hope for human connection among people struggling with Alzheimer’s Disease and related dementia.”]
http://www.motherslivingstories.org/ [“a pilot project that brings attention, compassion, support in parenting, and dignity to mothers who have breast cancer by helping them record their life stories and personal legacies.”]
http://www.poetrytherapy.org [“As poetry therapists, we use all forms of literature and the language arts, and we are united by our love of the word, and our passion for enhancing the lives of others and ourselves.”]
http://www.storywise.com [“The Center for Narrative Studies (CNS) Washington DC is a multi-disciplinary team dedicated to applying narrative theory to the practical renewal of leadership in culture and communities.”]
http://www.stevedenning.com/WallStJournalArticles.html [“the website for business and organizational storytelling.”] (Two articles mentioned in the Wall Street Journal on organizational storytelling.)
http://www.aaronshep.com/storytelling/index.html [“Here are free resources for storytelling (or story telling)—including the acclaimed series Gifts of Story—all from children’s author Aaron Shepard. (For additional stories, see Aaron’s Storybook.) Enjoy the magic of story!”]
[Karl Franklin, 2008]