Lesson+Plan+3

|| The importance of oral storytelling |||| **Broad goals to which this lesson contributes:** Oral Communication: Listening to Understand Speaking to Communicate || Chief Dan George’s speech: Lament for Confederation ||
 * **Lesson Plan**
 * **Day 3** |||| **Class/Subject:** English ENG3U || **Topic:** Oral storytelling traditions ||
 * **Topic and focus of this lesson:**
 * **Specific outcomes for this lesson:** OC 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.6, 1.7, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.5, 2.6 ||
 * **Materials:** The Community Circle hand-out
 * **Agenda:**
 * 1) Circle Talk (the handout and brief instruction).
 * 2) Ice breaker activity
 * 3) Oral storytelling vs. written traditions
 * 4) Story vs. History
 * 5) Sharing personal stories (whatever each students chooses to talk about)
 * 6) Cultural importance of oral traditions: origins of religious texts, unwritten but well known codes of behaviour, fairy tales, famous speeches and orators (Chief Dan George's Lament for Confederation). ||