June 9 & June 16: Document your successes in a story
Assigned Teachers:
June 9:
June 16:
Intro
Today we are going to start our class with a story of how two children succeeded in building a playground in their housing complex. The goal of todays class is to share your own story in a similar style with illustrations (it can be a children’ book or book for adults. We are going to use this story as inspiration to document our own story- your story can be about the adventures you had last week where you built street furniture for the children’s center, or last year where you achieved an incredible task— like building your own greenhouse.
You can use any language you like. We will be using two lessons to work on this so make sure you take the time to make it nice.
Story - Kamala and Maya’s Big Idea
You will need:
Paper
Pencil / pens / Eraser
Colors
Guide - June 2
Step 1: (10 minutes) Think about the projects you did last week, and how you banded as a team to create street furniture for the children’s center. Didn’t it resemble the story you just heard? Map an idea for your story on a rough sheet of paper like this, and then create a list of sequence of events you will use to create your story.
Step 2: (20 minutes) Take a rough sheet of paper and make a storyboard - this is a plan or outline for your story. document what problem you were trying to solve, what challenges you came along the way, how you succeeded and the ending of your story.
A storyboard can be used to plan the structure of your story using simple drawings and notes. It can help identify what each paragraph of your story could contain, such as what the scene will look like, what characters will be involved, what a character might say and so on. Storyboards have been used in practice to create films, games and books. For example, Pixar the creators of Toy Story, Up and Frozen use storyboards to plan and create their wonderful animations.
Step 3: Class discussion (10 minutes) share your storyboard sketch with your class and get ideas from your classmates
Step 4: story outline (20 minutes) Gather sheets of A4 and fold in half. take a pencil and fill out your story.
June 9: finish the story
Step 5: Observation (15 Minutes); revisit the story from the last lesson and observe how the story has been structured. Does your story follow a similar structure?
Step 6: color in and finalize your story. Next week we will be working on a book binding and cover design.