Objective:
Students will learn:
Identify the types of oral tradition stories.
Discuss why the survival account story is important to the Native American culture.
Discuss how the survival account story teaches the audience about Native American culture.
Creating an environment that simulates an oral tradition experience.

Rationale:
Students gain a broad knowledge of different kinds of oral traditional story.
Understand how stories are important in each culture.
Gain insight into another avenue of being taught by others.

Method:

Activity One:
Introducing the oral tradition unit, with reading aloud to the class a short story called Stories and stories, by Jim Northrup. This story describes the essence of storytelling within a family generations. As the teacher, give the students the role of oral tradition in Native American culture.
Activity Two:
Have the students watch the PBS website storyteller Rosella Goodwill Archdale, telling of "the Cooking Spirit". Handout the written version of the story to the students while the real audio video is loading.
Activity Three:
Have the students read for 7minutes on their thoughts. Were you hungry after the story? Do you imagine yourself making preparing the food and she spoke? How does this story differ to your mother showing you how to cook? Describe the smells in the kitchen as the story was being told. What did you learn about cooking or food that you didn"t know? What surprised you?
Activity Four: Conclusion
Discuss the students answers and thoughts. What kind of story was the first story? What purpose did the two stories have? What did you learn?

Assessment
Become a storyteller, write a narrative poem or story about a family story or a personal experience.

Resources:
PBS: We are one voice, http://www.pbs.org/circleofstories/voices/index.html
Indian Country: Oral Tradition, http://192.206.48.3/wirp/ICW-14.html#role
Walking the Rez Road, by Jim Northrup