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NYS Content Area Standard
The Arts
Standard 1: Create, Perform & Participate in the Arts

CDOS
Standard 3a: Universal Foundation Skills

ELA
Standard 4: Language for Social Interaction

Social StudiesStandard 1. History of the U.S. and N.Y.

Title: Signs, Storytelling & Songs

Grade Level: K-4

Author: Anne Marie Lewis, Tupper Lake CSD

Email: annemariel@tupperlakecsd.net

Adirondack Curriculum Content Area
___ Natural History
_X_ Human History
_X_ Culture & the Arts
___ Government & Civics
___ Economy
_X_ Health, Recreation & Life Skills

Investigative Question or Issue: How can you use signs or gestures to to augment sotry telling or songs about our community?

Challenge:

Create a story or song about our community using signs and/or gestures to augment your oral presentation.

1. First, choose a topic about our community, people in it, employment, historical events, local places, etc.
2. Research this topic. Your research should include facts and be thorough enough to develop into a short story or song (3-4 paragraphs or verses).
3. Develop your story or song (you may borrow familar melodies).
4. In each sentence/line, select the most meaningful words or the words which best describe the overall meaning of the passage/verse/sentence.
5. Using a sign dictionary, locate the signs for the chosen words. If specific signs are not available, develop gestures which would convey meaning of the targetted word.
6. Practice telling/performing your story or song using both spoken words and signs/gestures.
7. Performyour story/song.

Quality Standards:

1. Work on task as independently as possible.
2. Choose your story/song topic.
3. Develop your story/song idea.
4. Research your topic.
5. Create a short story or song (3-4 paragraphs or verses).
6. Select important idea or words in each verse. Find signs or create gestures to convey these words.
7. Practice your song or story.
8. Perform your story or song

Adapted for the Adirondack Curriculum Project from the work of Education By Design TM and Leading EDGE, LLC ©ACP 2002

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Signs, Storytelling & Songs

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Observed	Standard/Criteria	Possible Points	Rating
	Choose topic	10
	Develop song/story idea - it will be about.....	10
	Research your topic gathering facts	10
	Determine if you will create a song or story	10
	Create your song or story of 3-4 paragraphs or verses	10
	Select important words, ideas, or themes in your story or song	10
	Locate signs or create gestures to accompany these words, ideas, or themes.	10
	Practice your story or song.	10
	Perform your story or song.	10
	Work as independently as possible	10


	TOTALS	100

Comments: nysca To help the students create ideas into stories and/or song, Folksinger Peggy Lynn will perform some of her works to act as a model for what the challenge is to create. If possible, she would also assist with the creation/editting of stories and songs.