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Sample Lesson for Speaking and Listening: Crafting a Fable Narrative, 7th Grade Literature, Horizon of Creativity
7th Grade Literature Horizon of Creativity Fable Narrative Crafting
Before Speaking, Define:
- What is the purpose of speaking?
- Who might the audience be?
- Considering the purpose and audience, how should the content and delivery be approached?
Retelling a Fable:
Step 1: Identify Topic, Audience, Purpose, Setting, and Speaking Time
- Choose a fable from Vietnam or other ethnic groups worldwide that you find most memorable to narrate.
Step 2: Find Ideas, Create an Outline
* Finding Ideas: To find ideas for storytelling, you can answer the following questions:
- Identify the characters, main events, and development of the events.
What life lessons can we derive from this story?
Highlight the comedic and critical elements in the tale (emanating from story situations, characters, actions, or dialogue).
How can we effectively employ humor while narrating a story to captivate the audience?
How should the story be narrated chronologically? Can non-verbal elements be utilized during storytelling? What tone and expressions make storytelling natural and vibrant?
* Structuring the outline: The outline can be sketched based on several main points as follows:
- Introduction: Introduce the story and characters, and possibly pose a question to engage listeners in predicting the lesson to be learned after hearing the narration.
- Body: Narrate the story's progression; vary tone appropriately, injecting humor as appropriate; intersperse descriptive language depicting the demeanor and gestures of the characters,...
- Conclusion: Provide personal reflections and overall evaluation of the story.
Step 3: Presentation
When performing storytelling, it's important to consider the following:
- Find ways to engage the audience with captivating openings and closings.
- Choose and use language appropriate to spoken discourse.
- Speak loudly, clearly, naturally, and enthusiastically.
- Allocate time for delivering the speech reasonably.
Step 4: Exchange, Evaluation:
- In the role of the speaker: focus on noting the questions and comments of the listeners and provide appropriate feedback, demonstrating respect for their opinions.
- In the role of the listener: can provide some comments or prompting questions to help the speaker add missing or unclear details.
Prepare for the retelling of a fable, 7th-grade Literature, Horizon of Creativity
* Sample Speech:
Hello, teacher and classmates. My name is...
Today, I'll share with you and our classmates an impressive fable titled 'Two Traveling Companions and the Bear.'
The story begins with the image of two friends walking through the deep forest. As they walk together on the refreshing path shaded by trees, they suddenly encounter a bear. Faced with such a dangerous situation, the friend in front quickly climbs a tree branch and hides among the lush green leaves. The other friend stands bewildered, unable to rely on anyone else, and lies flat on the ground, burying their face in the sand. As the bear approaches closer and closer, it sniffs around the lying friend for a long time. Thinking the other person was dead, it roars, then shakes its head and walks away. After the bear has gone far, the friend from the tree climbs down and wonders, 'What did Mr. Bear whisper to you?' In response to the friend's question, the one lying in the ground cleverly replies, 'He told me not to trust those who abandon their friends.'
That's the end of the story. Through this tale, I've learned a profound lesson about true friendship. A good friend is someone who always accompanies us, whether the journey ahead is joyful or challenging.
I'd like to thank you all for listening to the story 'Two Traveling Companions and the Bear.'
To retell a fable, one must grasp the story's content firmly. Lastly, extract a profound lesson to convey. Practice by retelling other stories to friends and family.
Other sample literature compositions for 7th grade:
- Compose a piece on Using and Enjoying Interesting, Humorous Ways of Speaking and Listening, 7th-grade Literature, Horizon of Creativity
- Compose a review of Lesson 2, 7th-grade Literature, Horizon of Creativity
