The actual performance dates are coming up soon! I have a performance at the Chapin Museum for Chinese New Year coming up this weekend and that will be a lot of fun. Actually, the stories that I will tell for this year, the year of the rabbit, have a lot of significance for my anti-bullying program. In this case, rabbit is not a trickster. In the Chinese zodiac, Rabbit exhibits the qualities that I emphasize in the program—kindness and compassion. He treats others as he would like to be treated—he puts others ahead of himself.
Flexibility makes story performance a perfect vehicle for use in a values teaching setting. My role as teller—to serve the audience with the to use the stories to help them understand the principles of behavior that fosters positive social interaction and builds that will build enable the student to build up one another in stead of tearing down character and feelings of others
If you have been reading the blog, you may have noticed that along the way, we (Kathy Smith, the CIS Director of After School Programs, and I) made several changes in how we are presenting the program, based on the size of the audience, ages presented and needs of the site schedule. The flexibility of story makes this possible. A teller needs to have a servant attitude. The teller is servant to the audience and the story itself, working to meet the physical, emotional age and other needs of the students and adapting to the physical limitations of each site when presenting.
So, far this is the plan: the first days of the program will be story performances.
On the last day each student will receive the crafts, the handouts for the Bear’s Breakfast. On another day, when the teller is not present, the students will receive the evaluation sheet that asks their reactions to the tales.
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