When I was young
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/content/2359/
A lesson plan for grades K–4 English Language Arts and Theater Arts Education
In this ARTSEDGE lesson, students learn about how history has been preserved through oral storytelling. Students interview a family or community member to find out what life was like when they were young, and share this person’s story with the class.
North Carolina Curriculum Alignment
English Language Arts (2004)
Grade 1
- Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
- Objective 4.05: Write and/or participate in writing by using an author's model of language and extending the model (e.g., writing different ending for a story, composing an innovation of a poem).
Grade 2
- Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
- Objective 4.03: Read aloud with fluency and expression any text appropriate for early independent readers.
- Objective 4.06: Plan and make judgments about what to include in written products (e.g., narratives of personal experiences, creative stories, skits based on familiar stories and/or experiences).
- Objective 4.07: Compose first drafts using an appropriate writing process:
- planning and drafting.
- rereading for meaning.
- revising to clarify and refine writing with guided discussion.
Grade 3
- Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
- Objective 4.04: Use planning strategies (with assistance) to generate topics and to organize ideas (e.g., drawing, mapping, discussing, listing).
Grade 4
- Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
- Objective 4.05: Use planning strategies to generate topics and organize ideas (e.g., brainstorming, mapping, webbing, reading, discussion).
Kindergarten
- Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
- Objective 4.06: Write and/or participate in writing behaviors by using authors' models of language.
Theatre Arts Education (2001)
Grade 1
- Goal 1: The learner will write based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature, and history.
- Objective 1.03: Recall stories about individual experiences.
- Objective 1.04: Utilize sequence of events through verbal and nonverbal communication in a simple drama.
- Goal 2: The learner will act by interacting in improvisations and assuming roles.
- Objective 2.02: Express various characters, ideas, and emotions through gestures, movement and voice.
Grade 2
- Goal 2: The learner will act by interacting in improvisations and assuming roles.
- Objective 2.02: Demonstrate various characters, ideas and emotions through gestures, movement and voice.
Grade 3
- Goal 2: The learner will act by interacting in improvisations and assuming roles.
- Objective 2.06: Demonstrate ideas and emotions using gestures, blocking and movement.
Grade 4
- Goal 2: The learner will act by interacting in improvisations and assuming roles.
- Objective 2.06: Demonstrate ideas and emotions through gestures and movement.
Kindergarten
- Goal 2: The learner will act by interacting in improvisations and assuming roles.
- Objective 2.04: Express various ideas and emotions through gestures, movement and voice.


