Hope and Area Indigenous Storytelling Unit – Grade 5
| Activity | Description | Assessment: | |
| 1 | Defining Storytelling | Discuss Indiginous storytelling traditions. | Create a rubric |
| 2 | Practise Storytelling | Write and perform own story | Storytelling rubric |
| 3 | Video/audio of Story The Mosquito Woman | Watch video, pause and discuss elements of storytelling | Written Reflection |
| 4 | Read Story The Mosquito Woman | Read transcribed/written version of same story | Discuss/answer questions about the story and differences/similarities between the versions of the story. |
| 5 | 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 1 |
| 6 | Read Story 2 | Read the Origin of Skwiy-kway | Written reflection |