School Programs
Carol's performances and residencies provide imagery building skills, create attentive listeners, and teach language, story plots, folkways, traditions, and customs. They supplement the existing literacy program by supporting teachers’ language arts classes.
Performances
Performances are available for all ages, in elementary, junior -high, and secondary school settings. From Carol's large and varied repertoire, she will tailor performances to suit both your needs and the ages of the specific audiences. Programs include:
Voices from the World Village (4-6, jr.high, multicultural)
Tales of Fools and Wise Ones (wisdom, peace/conflict resolution)
Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall (self-esteem)
Tell It on the Mountain (Catskill, Adirondack, Appalachian stories)
Teamwork, Tolerance and Truth (Character Education)
Workshops
Workshops are offered for both students and adults. They are “hand-on” sessions which are designed to bring out the storyteller in each participant. Adult workshop topics include:
Using Storytelling to Teach Understanding of Diversity
How to Teach Storytelling in Your Classroom
Residencies
During these longer visits to a school community, students (and adults) learn, through the use of oral retelling, creative dramatics, story creation, critical thinking, and other “hands-on” activities and exercises, to develop their storytelling skills. Storytelling provides motivation to read, fosters creative language growth, promotes cultural literacy, improves self-esteem, develops speaking and listening skills, and provides a link across all disciplines.
Sample Residencies
African Drumbeats--Storytelling, mask making, music and games from Africa form the foundation of this residency. Various aspects of African culture are the focus for participants as they learn African tales and construct masks and shields of the various groups which people the continent. They will also play games native to Africa and engage in lively call-and-response chants accompanying themselves on folk instruments.
Pioneer Days--Discover the past as it comes alive through stories, games, crafts and recipes. This residency provides the opportunity for students to do many of the things that pioneer children did. Like them, they’ll make things by hand, like cornhusk dolls and other toys. They will play pioneer games and sample recipes of the time. As storytelling was an important part of pioneer life, we’ll also learn stories they were likely to have told at the hearth.
Knights and Castles--This residency provides a magical journey to the Middle Ages of Europe, time traveling to the early days of knights and castles. Through the power of story, crafts, music, math, feasting and fantasy, students will do what their counterparts did then. Along the way we’ll compare “Then and Now,” to discover how life has changed and stayed the same.
Earth on Turtle’s Back--Modeled after Native American stories, students will create “how and why” tales about nature. The symbol stories they compose will be painted on “skins” and presented orally before moving into writing.
Story Village--The creative dramatics and storytelling exercises included in this program offer opportunities for children to express themselves in unique ways. Designed for elementary grade students, the residency examines folk lore from many cultures and encourages children to develop acting/storytelling skills within their classroom communities. The residency would culminate in a performance.
The Door to Lore--Creative writing skills are developed through storytelling, music, and visual arts. Using oral composition and tandem telling as pre-writing strategies, students provide feedback and support for works in progress. This helps foster a stronger classroom community and allows readers and non-readers a chance to be successful.
Residencies may also be created to complement a school or classroom theme.
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