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Wit & Wisdom
Roger Jenkins
storyteller
storyteller
© Roger Jenkins 2011 Made With Serif WebPlus.
How to remember
your story:
your story:
Make a simple storyboard outlining key moments. I encourage you not to write anything other than
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a title
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names of characters & places (especially if the story is from a different culture than your own)
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For students working in a second language, key new vocabulary - eg donkey, bridge, upside down - can be added)
Brios (as storyteller Doug Lipman calls them - Brief Reminders of Image Order) don’t have to be beautiful! See my sketch for The Stonecutter (see text) who wished to become an elephant, king, the sun, a cloud, the wind, and a mountain - before becoming a contented stone cutter once again.
What’s important is that the storyboard works for you.
When kids say “But I’m useless at drawing, Sir!”, I
Illustration for Two Men and a Donkey from Eric K Taylor’s excellent book Using Folktales
My reminder for the Chinese Folktale of The Fourth Question takes the form of a map. This suits any story with a journey - - even ones as simple as Gingerbread Man or The Bear Hunt, where I draw and label a map (home, fence, bridge, hill, cave) before I tell the story to audiences learning English.
