"Storytelling: Tales of Everyday Life" A writing lesson plan for grades 4-6
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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/
http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/echo07.lan.stories.lpperformart/
http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/echo07.lan.stories.lpwritework/