My Story, Your Story

Title

My Story, Your Story

Summary / overview

In this collaboration activity, partner school students will explore their own stories and work together to define folktale, legend and myth, retell popular stories and share with their partner class, identifying similar themes. The final output will be a co-authored story.

Theme(s)

Storytelling

Objective(s)

Through this collaboration activity, partner schools and students will:

1. Hear/read/see stories from another country/culture and collaboratively write a story
2. Develop an understanding that stories from other cultures have similar themes
3. Understand the difference between folktale, legend and myth and create their own stories

Organisational details

Languages

English / Bahasa Indonesia

Subject Area(s)

English (Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening), Studies of Society and the Environment (History and Geography), Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)

Duration

6+ weeks