Gateway Performances
December 16, 2008
Seven kids, including me, in my Gateway Storytelling class performed folktales from places around the world. We had to practice saying our stories with facial expressions, hand movements, and voice projection. The students had to read it twice a day for one month, using the paper. Then we had to practice twice a day each day without the paper for a month.
My story was Maui and the Great Eel. It told about why vines twist and twirl around trees. This is the summary of the story:
Once there was a big eel that lived in the sky. Then it fell into a lake, and ate some children that were getting water. When their dad heard what happened he ran to the lake with his spear. He threw it and missed. So then he used his magic to catch the eel. He chopped the eel’s head off and threw it into the ocean, then he threw its tail in the river, and then he took the middle part and threw it into the forest where it wrapped around a tree and became a vine.
~Shawn
