hawaii
"Storytelling: Tales of Everyday Life" A writing lesson plan for grades 4-6
This creative lesson plan uses video of a Hawaii native's jounrey to Alaska in the 1850's to introduce the idea of journaling. This is one of a series of 4 related lesson plans. The others can be found:
http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/echo07.lan.stories.lporaltrad/