Storytelling

Additionally, it extends the conversation about the impact of using multimodal storytelling on ELLs’ English writing experiences as well as their construction of identities. It is expected that educators of English as a second or foreign language could benefit from the study results and implement multimodal literacy strategies in their…

Having read the stories by prominent writers such as Kingston, Vermilya and Byatt, I have concluded that stories written by them have specificity. All the stories have been written in the style, which shows how each writer reacts to storytelling. Each story gives the readers the idea of importance of the actions people do. For instance, in the first story, which is about the “Eldest princess” one can easily recognize the feelings of the princess, who was very unconfident of her actions,…

made the art of storytelling more intriguing and more interesting than it could have been if he told what happened in war straight up. So making up these little stories makes the story more interesting, but it also tells us how Tim felt during war. He didn't go to the river and decide to jump to the border or go and fight in the war, it just made the story interesting and made us feel his Tim was feeling when he received the draft notice during the war. The significance of storytelling was to…

They Carried, Tim O’Brien explores different coping mechanisms for those in traumatic situations. O 'Brien explores the various ways with which soldiers cope with wartime experiences such as through social dependency , through denial and through storytelling in order to deepen one’s understanding the effectiveness of these coping mechanisms. He argues that the only true way to cope is by accepting the reality of the situation one is facing. Throughout the collection, O’Brien displays…

The Narrative Power of Native American Storytelling The dramatic-comedy Smoke Signals, a brilliant screenplay written by Sherman Alexie in 1998 and directed by Chris Eyre, inspired by Alexie 's book The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven which details Native American life. Alexie has “...always been fascinated with dreams and stories and flashing forward and flashing back and playing with conventions of time…”, as he stated in “Sending Cinematic Smoke Signals an Interview with Sherman…

it which stems from the death of Linda. Linda’s death illuminates the fact that through storytelling the dead have the ability to come back to life and help us cope with the fact that they have passed. Through the death of Linda, the narrator’s personality is forever changed. After her death he finds it hard to confront dead bodies; this is especially shown after he kills a…

Some of the elements of the Native American culture that are being maintained in the book are the storytelling, ceremony, and beliefs. The story Ceremony was written in a Native American tradition of storytelling. The Native American storytelling was about the tradition of the past, present, and the future, which cycles and repeats itself. Also, storytelling focused on helping people understand their place in this world by gaining knowledge on who they are, where they came from and how to deal…

Leslie Marmon Silko states her view on the significance of oral tradition in the Pueblo community. Silko begins her written speech by saying, “The words most highly valued are those spoken from the heart, unpremeditated and unrehearsed,” (467). Storytelling lies at the heart of Pueblo culture, for it brings their heritage together no matter the time or distance (Silko 470, 479). Pueblo oral tradition differentiates from English writing; oral tradition challenges academic writing. Silko’s written…

and literacy skills among all students using technology. Therefore, this artifact supports the school’s vision through the use of Digital storytelling which is an effective technology strategy that utilizes the indicators of engage learning, adheres to the standards, implements multicultural pedagogy, and increases academic achievement (Digital Storytelling. (n.d.). The Evaluating Emerging Technologies Assessment…

Native ways of keeping culture alive must be revitalized, as colonization was detrimental but did not destroy everything. Indigenous relationships with the peopled universe emphasize environmental values and a way of being that holds strong to cultural values. Colonizers desperately tried to erase this deeply rooted culture, but it is hard to erase a link so completely tied to the land. Deeply embedded in each native person’s pedagogy is history, collective trauma, the reverberating effects of…