Sally Crandall, Historical Storytelling.
Apr 25th 2008Brother WolfEpisode List & Professional Development & Storytelling in Schools
On April 29th at 8PM ET Sally Crandall will be interviewed about historical storytelling on the Art of Storytelling with Children. You are welcome to join the call as it is recorded in the conference environment.
Sally Crandall writes…
This Tuesday, I’m looking forward to talking with Eric about historical storytelling. When I take on the creation of an historical story, I look at it as an opportunity to go back in time and explore places and people. The first story I told was about the 1913 flood, which changed the future for Columbus and for Ohio. I was sitting in my kitchen one summer afternoon when I heard a survivor of the flood, Ida Griswold, tell her story during a radio interview. I called her up, and, even though she shouldn’t have, she let me come over and spend a day getting to know her and see the house in which she grew up and which survived the flood. She pointed out the crack in the window caused by a floating telephone pole, and told me her dad never fixed it, and she never would either.
I’m excited to be talking with Eric about some of the stories I tell and about their specific uses in the classroom. A few years ago, I spent several days in Cleveland at a Kennedy Center Workshop for teaching artists. It was a valuable experience. There I began to explore the idea of using the drama idea of tableau, or frozen pictures, with students to explore the history and characters in the stories I tell. I hope listeners call in with questions and their own experiences.
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