We had a visitor in tonight's Reading and Language Arts class tonight, a professional storyteller, Muriel Johnson. She was wonderful. It made me really want to practice my read aloud/storytelling skills (something that is seriously lacking right now).
She had an outlook on the question "What is appropriate for kids?" that really makes sense. She thrives on telling stories that are, as she says, scary. She wants kids to experience a whole range of rich emotion in a safe environment (the perfect place would be schools!). It definitely makes me want to pick books to share with my class that are a little more substantive and emotionally-challenging.
She told us awesome stories, including stories about a girl and the Gunny Wolf, Briar Rabbit, and one about a baker and a beggar woman. I'm going to practice my delivery of the stories and then maybe one day you'll see a youtube post of my new and improved skillz....
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