13. Story-Telling
Reading edition
Oral Exercise. Did you ever see a sign with the words SAFETY FIRST? Explain to your classmates what you think it meant.
The three pictures on the opposite page tell three stories. Each story teaches the lesson, "Safety First."
Oral Exercise. 1. Make up a story that you and your classmates may play. Let it fit one of the three pictures. Tell it to the class.
2. Together with two or three classmates, whom you may choose yourself, play your story. Perhaps you and the other players will meet before or after school, and then you can tell them how each one must look, what he must do, and what he must say, in playing his part. Try to do it all without the teacher, but if you need the teacher's help, ask for it. Play the story once or twice before playing it in the presence of the class.
Group Exercise. Other pupils will play their stories. The class will tell what it likes and what it does not like in the playing of each story. These questions will help to show whether a story was well played:
1. Did the players say enough?
2. Did the players speak clearly, distinctly, and loud enough?
3. Did the players look and act like the persons in the story?
4. How might the story have been played better?
SAFETY FIRST
