Lesson / Document · South Dakota · OSEU 5
Themes: Storytelling & oral tradition, Education & learning, Culture & continuity, Community & responsibility, Listening & observation, Humor & play
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Inquiry Design Model (IDM) Blueprint™
“Lesson Title” | OSEU 5: Oral Tradition & Story
Compelling Can you take a written or oral story and script it out to a Reader’s Theater
Question Script.
Standard 5.3 – Compare the diverse cultures (woodlands, prairie, and plains)
Standards and within the Oceti Sakowin through oral tradition and written accounts.
Practices
Staging the Out of the three Iktome stories can you develop a powerful visual play that connects to the
Question audience.
Supporting Question 1 Supporting Question 2 Supporting Question 3
How do I put together a powerful
What would be the best visual How can I bring the story to life in
readers theater story on the Lakota
representation of this story? front of an audience?
story I chose?
Formative Performance Task Formative Performance Task Formative Performance Task
- Rehearse the play from the - Act out the play for an
- Listen to a story from an elder
script that was written. audience.
- Look at the story written
- Write the story in script form
Featured Sources Featured Sources Featured Sources
- Wolakota.org (storytelling with
Duane Hollow Horn Bear) Script that the students created from
Staging the show for a live audience
- Video of him telling the story the story they heard and read
- Written text of the story
An argument can be made that a script can be made from the Iktome story they heard
Argument
Summative and read.
Performance
- Perform the play on October 25 at 7 pm (Parent Night)
Task Extension
- Recording the play in Jason’s room.
The three activities:
- Understand the oral and written story they select. Write the story in a play format.
Taking Informed
Action - Assess the moral of the story. Can the students determine If it is relevant with the culture
of the community.
- Through acting display the story’s relevance in the community they live in.