Boston Bar Indigenous Storytelling Unit – Grade 5
| Activity | Assessment: | |
| Defining Storytelling | Discuss Indigenous storytelling traditions. | Create a rubric |
| Practice Storytelling | Write and perform own story | Storytelling rubric |
| Video/audio of Story | Watch video, pause and discuss elements of storytelling | Answer questions (This is a Sto:lo story – I am looking for a Nlaka’pamux story we can use) |
| Create an Origin Story | Create the origin story for something they own or that belongs to their family. | One criterion from storytelling rubric developed in activity 2 |
| Read Story 2 | Read the Origin of the Basket | |
| Read Story 3 | Read two versions of the Beaver Story | Compare and contrast |
Storytelling Unit Curricular Connections
A Man Eats His Sisters’ Berries – alternate reading