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"Fiction also teaches you how to tell a story, which is how we express and remember nearly everything.  (If you can't tell a story, you will never, ever get people to wire you the funds you need to pay the fees to get your Nigerian inheritance out of the bank.)"  Joel Stein in TIME Dec 10, 2013

Drama & Storytelling

The Storytelling Animal - by Jonathan Gottschall

Stories Turn Data Into Information

Beginning
When, transition, who/what, where
Middle
Context, conflict, proposed resolution, complication
End
Actual resolution, MIP Most Important Point

 

Stories of Wisdom

Parts of a Story Rap.....With Thanks to Andrea Antepenko

Save The Cat - "One of the things I hear most about Save the Cat is that its damn complicated and what the **** is a theme and why does it have to be in the form of a question? This is a BOOK, Liz, not a freaking episode of Jeopardy!" - See more at: http://lizwritesbooks.com/2012/05/the-7-point-plot-system-aka-save-the-cat-for-pantsers/#sthash.oidfsJUk.dpuf

Sherry Norfolk - Story Telling

Stories & Thinking Skills

'Act' Like a Teacher

Teaching as a Performing Art - Seymour Sarason

Poetry - Patriotism

Film / Video

Challenge Education - Films and Sample Lessons

Film as an 'Empathy Machine'....Roger Ebert

Hartwick Institute - Character Through Films

Letterbox Video

Film Clips - Instructive Clips From Hundreds of Films

Clip - Self-Respect & Fighting Without Violence From: Gandhi

Wing Clips - Les Mis

The Films of PES - Highly creative short videos

Literature & Poetry

Reader's Theater Helps Test Scores Rise
 Differentiated instruction in E. Hartford, CT led to big gains and included Reader's Theater scripts with roles at the right reading level for each student. From kindergarten through middle school, leveled Reader's Theater makes learning active, effective, and engaging

Hartwick Institute - Character Through Literature

Charles Dickens - Medical Diagnoses of His Characters

Poem - The Dash by Linda Ellis

Burma-Shave Signs

Best 100 Opening Lines....

Best 100 Closing Lines....

Current terms and Concepts:
 
"Spoiler Alert!"
 
"Wait for it...."

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