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Gayle Holmes is a storyteller from South Carolina who has been not only telling stories, but creating stories for a long time. He favorite stories are from African and Asian cultures. Telling a story...
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Hannah L. Baker is a storyteller who has worked for the South Carolina Writing Improvement Network. She believes in and has promoted the power and importance of storytelling. She says that all you...
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Michael Leonard has taught the craft of storytelling all over the world for over 30 years and worked as head of the Chicago Public Library’s North Town branch. How does he find new stories to tell? He...
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Minerva King is a native of South Carolina and just as long ago storytellers traveled from city to city, weaving tales, she continues this tradition today as an artist in residence for the South...
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Pat Feehan, a professor of Library Science, is a storyteller who takes ideas and brings them to life in a story. How do you begin to tell a story? “Once upon a time” and “in the beginning” are ways...
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Sherry William likes to tell African folks tales. Many of the stories she tells are not written in Gullah, but she has added that because she grew up in the Low Country of South Carolina where she...
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Tom Feelings, an author and an illustrator, was born in New York and retired as a professor of art at the University of South Carolina. He has won many awards, including two Caldecott Honor awards and...
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Ann Grifalconi is an author and illustrator from New York City. She specializes in presenting realistic characters from other cultures. Her book, The Village of Round and Square Houses, is a Caldecott...
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Reconstruct the plot of the story - beginning, middle, and end- then extend the story. What happened next? The author does not tell us. Use you skills of inference to decide. AS long as you can...
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Students explore careers and create informational brochures about their chosen career.