Storytelling - Drama 10

Hello actors and actresses!  Here are some links that you may want to check out when searching for your story-telling material:

Grimm's Fairy Tales:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~spok/grimmtmp/

Fables, Fairy Tales and Nursery Rhymes:
http://www.ivyjoy.com/fables/

American Folklore Spooky Stories:
http://www.americanfolklore.net/spooky-stories.html


Your story should take approximately 3-6 minutes to tell.  Test the length by timing yourself reading it in your head.  Once you have that time recorded, add about 1 minute to the performance length, as you will take pauses and slow your speech down when you perform it for an audience.

This is a major project for this semester, and it will require a lot of memorization work.  That being said, you will have sufficient class time to work on this project.  Please make note of which story you will be telling, then print a hard copy of the text for you to start studying.

Guidelines for story selection:

1. Is it school appropriate?
2. Is it told from the perspective of a narrator rather than 1st person perspective (I, me)?
3. When I read it, does it take approximately 3-6 minutes from start to finish (approx. 1-2 pages in Microsoft Word)?  If it is significantly shorter, you will need to choose another story.  If it takes significantly longer than 6 minutes, you will have a lot of memorization work on your hands for the amount of time you will be given for this project, and may need to reconsider your choice.
4. Can you memorize this text?
5. Can you tell this story with an expressive voice and face?  Are you interested in this story?  Your audience will buy into it if you do!