English: Oral Language
Big Idea (6) + (7): Exploring stories and other texts helps us understand ourselves and make connections to others and to the world.
Content (6)+(7): Strategies and Processes: Oral Language Strategies
Content (6)+(7): Language features, structures, and conventions: features of oral language
Curricular Competency (6) + (7): Comprehend and Connect: Apply appropriate strategies to comprehend written, oral, and visual texts, guide inquiry, and extend thinking
Curricular Competency (6) + (7): Comprehend and Connect: Recognize the validity of First Peoples oral tradition for a range of purposes
Curricular Competency (6) + (7): Comprehend and Connect: Recognize and appreciate the role of story, narrative, and oral tradition in expressing First Peoples perspectives, values, beliefs, and points of view
Curricular Competency (6) + (7): Create and Communicate: Use and experiment with oral storytelling processes
Curricular Competency (6) + (7): Create and Communicate: Transform ideas and information to create original texts
First Peoples Principles of Learning: Learning is embedded in memory, history, and story
First Peoples Principles of Learning: Learning involves recognizing that some knowledge is sacred and only shared with permission, and/or in certain situations
Oral Language: Turn-Taking
Turn-Taking: Lesson 1
Watch the following Ken Robinson video on education and creativity. Do you agree with it? Do you disagree with it? Use the oral language discussion statements to help you move your conversation forward with your partner.
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After, have a conversation on the following quotes:
-"It is better to have loved then lost, than never to have loved at all".
-"Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer."
-"Love at first sight is real."
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Turn-Taking: Lesson 2
Watch the following exercise video. What did it make you think? What do you wonder? Use the oral language discussion statements to help you move your conversation forward with your partner.
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After, have a conversation on the following quotes:
-"You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do"
-“When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.”
-“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” ― Albert Einstein
-“Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.” — Tennessee Williams
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Turn-Taking: Lesson 3
Watch the following exercise video. What did it make you think? What do you wonder? Use the oral language discussion statements to help you move your conversation forward with your partner.
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After, have a conversation on the following quotes:
-“They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.” — Carl W. Buechner
-“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” — Walter Winchell
-"Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory"
-"Anyone who has never made a mistake, has never tried anything new"
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Turn-Taking: Lesson 4
Watch the following exercise video. What did it make you think? What do you wonder? Use the oral language discussion statements to help you move your conversation forward with your partner.
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After, have a conversation on the following quotes:
-““Friends are the family you choose.“ — Jess C. Scott
-"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter" - Martin Luther King Jr.
-"If people are doubting how far you can go, go so far that you can't hear them anymore"
-"Doubt kills more dreams that failure ever will"
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