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My name is Joyce DeBusk. I am an English Language Development teacher at Fir Grove. Growing up, my grandmother told me many traditional folktales from Japan. She didn't use any books, pictures or puppets. She simply sat close to me and spoke in her warm and soft voice and told the stories. It was simply magical!
Kamishibai was first originated in Japanese Buddhist temple in the 12th century, where the monks use the pictures to teach moral lessons to illiterate audiences. The tradition lived long and after the great depression. With the invention of television in the 1950s, Kamishibai began its decline. Today, Kamishibai is usually heard and celebrated in schools and libraries in Japan. More recently, with the efforts from Kamishibai for Kids in the United States and Canada, people who long for the nostalgic feeling of street performances are able to relive the unforgettable experience through festivals and special outdoor events.
With its beautifully illustrated paintings on the large story cards, the storyteller would read the text that is printed on one side and then shows the colorful illustration on the other. He or she would skillfully tell the tale with the engaging dialogues, vivid details, and varying voices to enhance the storytelling experience.
What makes Kamishibai different than books is that the pictures on the Kamishibai cards are very expressive, colorful yet simple. This allows the children to imagine the scenes and enjoy the suspense when the pictures are slowly slid to reveal the next one. This storytelling medium combines oral, visual, auditory and print literacies which are very versatile to meet the varying literacy levels of the audiences.
It is my hope to use this storytelling medium to teach multiculturalism through the use of language arts, visual arts and performing arts. The stories invite discussion and motivate the students to read and perform and eventually write and illustrate their own.
The anticipated learning outcomes are:
In the areas of LISTENING and READING FOR LITERARY RESPONSE
Students will comprehend, interpret and critique imaginative texts in every medium, drawing on personal experiences and knowledge to understand the text and recognizing the social, historical and cultural features of the text.
Students will be able to:
1. read a variety of literature of different genres
2. recognize some features that distinguish the genres
3. understand the literary elements of setting, character, plot, theme, and point of view
4. compare those features to other works and to their own lives.
In the areas of SPEAKING AND WRITING (ORAL AND PRINT LITERACIES)
Students will present interpretations, analyses, and reactions to the content and language of a text. They will speak and write for literary expression involves producing imaginative texts that use language and text structures that are inventive and often multilayered.
Students will be able to
1. present personal responses to literature that make reference to the plot, characters, ideas, vocabulary and text structure.
2. explain the meaning of literary works with some attention to meanings beyond the literal level.
3. create their own stories, poems, and songs using the elements of the literature they have read and appropriate vocabulary.
In the area of VISUAL LITERACY
Students will write and illustrate their own kamishibai stories, the student will also be communicating through the visual arts by developing ideas and techniques, organizing art elements and forms into a creative work, refining the work based on feedback and presenting the work to others.
Students will be able to
1. Understand arts concepts and vocabulary.
2. Develop art skills and techniques.
3. Apply a creative process in the arts:
Conceptualize the context or purpose
Develop ideas and techniques.
Organize art elements, forms, and or principles into a creative work.
Reflect for the purpose of elaboration and self-evaluation.
Refine work based on feedback.
Present work to others.
I would like the use the money raised to purchase
* Two Kamishibai story stages which cost $175 each. $350 total
*A collection of a dozen Japanese folktales which are written in (15"x 10.5") sturdy cards. Each story set costs $30. $360
*The story The Kamishibai Man written by Allen Say which costs $15.
*Two sets of clappers called Hyoshigi which costs $36 each. $72 total.
*The shipping cost is 12% of the total.
All items will be purchased through a website called Kamishibai for Kids. The website contains many useful resources in regards to Kamishibai.
The Kamishibai set will be shared with all students of Fir Grove @ approximately 450 students.
This project is supported by the Beaverton Education Foundation.
Founded in 1988, the Beaverton Education Foundation raises money to provide hands-on innovative academic enrichment and advancement programs & projects that go beyond normal school funding at all Beaverton public schools and is a 501(c)(3) community-based nonprofit organization. BEF mobilizes community resources to fund innovative classroom, summer and after-school programs.
In the event that this project does not reach its goal, BEF may apply the funds received to another project in need.
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