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Narrative Writing: Native Legend

After reading a Native legend of your choice (or on Epic), you will create a video retelling of the legend. You must write a script to read or refer to while recording. Your video should include sound effects and a natural background for effect. Be sure to hold up the book to show your audience the cover, and you may go through the pages to show illustrations as well.

Question 1

Essay

After reading a Native legend of your choice (or on Epic), please use your video camera feature on your Chromebook to record yourself in a retelling of the legend.  You will write out a script to read or refer to while recording.  

Be sure to include the following in your script:

  1.  Name of legend
  2. Author and illustrator
  3. Tribe and/or region your legend is from
  4. Summarize the legend by giving us the basic beginning, middle, and end of the story without rereading the whole legend to us
  5. What is the moral (or lesson) that the legend was meant to teach or explain?

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