
CHAPTER 3: THE IMPORTANCE OF STORIES
The Resistance is in crisis. To help them, In this session you will reflect on the function of stories and share those that have marked you the most.
Listen to the audio
What you will need
- Audio player with good quality
- Colored sheets (or white failing that)
- Labelers / Colored pencils / Boiled
- Mesas
- Open space to play
- Teacher script
- Session Support Materials 3: teacher script, Map of a story
Activities
PROFESSIONAL play the audio: "Chapter 3: “The importance of stories”.
STUDENT listen.
PROFESSIONAL comment on the audio to clarify the content and ensure that the group has understood.
Then the following activities are proposed.
This is a dynamic to share stories within the group.
The first person to share their story will be a PROFESSIONAL, using the map that you will have previously prepared to guide you. We recommend using the Story Map model that you can download in the support materials to understand how it works.
An important trick, a story always answers:
- When exactly?
- Where exactly?
- with whom exactly?
- What exactly happened?
EXAMPLES:
It is NOT a story:
“When I went to my grandmother's house and played with her and she took care of me”
YES it is a story:
“One fall day I was playing at my grandmother's house with her because she hadn't gone to school because she was sick., and then my grandmother told me…”
The story of PROFESSIONAL It must have the same theme as the rest of the group.
If you can't think of any topic, here are some ideas that work:
- Stories of a day you learned something important
- Stories of a time when you felt alone
- Stories of a day when you changed
- Stories of a day when you overcame something difficult
When PROFESSIONAL has already told his story, the group stands in pairs.
One person in the couple will be A, the other will be B.
A tells his story to B. B can ask questions to better understand the story.
Then we change roles.
B tells his story to A. You can ask questions to better understand the story.
Finally, Each person creates a map of their story with a colored sheet of paper and colored markers or paints..
PROFESSIONAL Ask the group who wants to share their story with the rest of the group first..
It is not advisable to force those who do not want to share to share.. At the same time, It is advisable to encourage the group to share their stories..
Corresponds to PROFESSIONAL assess the balance between encouraging participation and accepting the silence of the group.
When someone shares their story, PROFESSIONAL thanks for the participation, without making value judgments about history. “Thank you for sharing, Sara”.
PROFESSIONAL you can ask the rest of the group: What do you take away from what Sara has said?? What has caught your attention??
PROFESSIONAL proposes that each student individually write a letter to The Resistance explaining why you think storytelling is still important.
How do we feel when we tell an important story?? What do we feel when we listen to it?? Has anyone felt identified?
What has changed after hearing or telling a story?
What is the use for you to listen to stories?? What is the use of telling stories??
Why are you going to make an opera to tell a story?
PROFESSIONAL collect the group cards.
Extra Activities
The group is placed in pairs, preferably with someone they don't know well.
If they are not even PROFESSIONAL can play. It is important that they are couples.
One person in the couple will be A, the other will be B.
A is going to tell his entire life to B in 1 minutes. B just listen, He doesn't comment or ask anything.. A has to keep talking until the minute is up., A life is too long to be summarized in 1 minute and say “I'm done” 🙂
Then we change roles, B tells A.
Change of couples. One person in the couple will be A, the other will be B.
A tells his life to B, this time in 30 seconds.
We change roles, B tells A.
Change of couples. One person in the couple will be A, the other will be B.
A tells his life to B, this time in 10 seconds.
We change roles, B tells A.
What has it been like to tell our life? What has it been like to listen to the lives of others? What has it been like to have to summarize in such a short time??
How is our life like a story??
PROFESSIONAL Ask who wants to share their letter with the group first.
Again, values the balance between encouraging and forcing participation.