Telling Stories Through Objects - Brooklyn Children's Museum

APPENDIX
Stories About the Objects in the Case
The stories that follow are related to the objects in the
case. Reading them and discussing how they relate to
the objects is an activity in itself (see Activity 3-Make a
Story Journal). You can read them to your students or
have students read the stories to themselves or to each
other, depending on their age. If you choose to have
your students read them, we have included pronunciation
for some of the less familiar names.
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Not every object in the case has a corresponding story
in this section of the teacher guide. The shadow puppet’s
story is represented by the book Rama and Sita: A Tale
from Ancient Java by David Weitzman, which is included
in the case. The puff adder, birds in a tree, chicken head,
and porcupine goldweights have corresponding proverbs
rather than stories (see Proverb Power activity on page
20). Finally, the mola (below) and the bark painting in
the case have no corresponding stories at all, but we
encourage you and your students to write stories about
them yourselves (see Literacy Extension on page 21).