Writing tool

This is a wonderful tool from Read Write Think for students who are struggling with their Kamishibai. Students can build character maps -- with different attributes of their characters -- as well as conflict maps, resolution maps and setting maps.

Here is the link for this thinking/writing tool: http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/story-30008.html

Resources

This blog is a collection of my resources for the Grade 7-8 Kamishibai unit. In addition, I am collecting resources for a unit that with Dr. Teresa Robinson, a Grade 3/4 teacher at Folsom, and a fairy tale unit with the Grades 1/2 or independently. The following books are in my personal library or in my school library at Folsom Educational and Community Center.

Kamishibai

De Las Casas, Dianne. Kamishibai Story Theater : The Art of Picture Telling. Westport, CT: Teachers Ideas Press, 2006.

Tips on creating kamishibai as well as a number of fairy tales from Japan and the world.

McGowan, Tara M. The Kamishibai Classroom : Engaging Multiple Literacies Through the Art of "Paper Theater." Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited, 2010.

Detailed tips on creating kamishibai from multiple perspectives. Excellent resource.

Nash, Eric. Manga Kamishibai : The Art of Japanese Paper Theater. New York: Abrams Comicarts, 2009.

A fabulous book on the history of kamishibai in Japan, which contains samples of kamishibai throughout its history.

Say, Allen. Kamishibai Man. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2005.

Fairy tales

Haviland, Virginia. Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Japan. New York: Beech Tree, 1967.

Hearn, Lafcadio. Japanese Fairy Tales. Mount Vernon, NY : Peter Pauper Press, 1958.

Hearne, Betsy. Beauties & Beasts. Phoenix: Oryx Press, 1993.

MacDonald, Margaret Read. Tom Thumb. Phoenix: Oryx Press, 1993.

Philip, Neil. The Illustrated Book of Fairy Tales. New York : DK Publishing, 1997.

Sakade, Florence. Japanese Children's Favorite Stories. Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1981.

Shannon, George. A Knock at the Door. Phoenix: Oryx Press, 1992.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Secondary Sources

YouTube video by Inori on Sadaka



Sadako Story on YouTube. Subtitles told in French.
YouTube video by the BBC on Hiroshima


BBC YouTube video on Truman ultimatum.

BBC YouTube video on testing the bomb at Los Alamos, N.M.

BBC YouTube video on Nagasaki


BBC YouTube video on aftermath from Hiroshima

1946 USAF film on Hiroshima


National Geographic film about Hiroshima (45 minutes)

Links

http://www.kamishibai.org/index.htm -- British Kamishibai site

http://www.cvsd.org/progress/documents/PDF_files/kamishibai.pdf -- helpful tips on writing, illustrating and performing Kamishibai. Some resource links are dead.

http://www.storybike.com/ -- Brattleboro project

http://kamishibai.com/spotlight/ -- Tara McGowen's site

http://www.essentiallearningproducts.com/kamishibai-stories-dianne-clouet -- Dianne Clouet

http://www.pittsfordschools.org/MCE.cfm?subpage=29287

These are just a few. There are so many wonderful online resources for Kamishibai.

Japanese fairytales

Here are some Japanese fairytales for your Toontastic Kamishibai

(My students will be producing short -- 6 slides -- kamishibai using the iPad app, Toontastic. They will choose a fairy tale to produce in teams of 3, with each student illustrating two slide and writing narrative and dialogue for the slide. Then they will produce their final version on Toontastic, drawing the scenes and narrating the story from their scripts.)

Japanese fairytales: http://www.sacred-texts.com/shi/jft2/

http://zeluna.net/japanese-fairy-tales.html

http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/japan.html

http://life.ou.edu/stories/

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4018/4018-h/4018-h.htm

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/29337/29337-h/29337-h.htm

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/41437/41437-h/41437-h.htm

The Old Man Who Made Cherry Trees Bloom

One version of story

http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/the-old-man-who-made-cherry-trees-bloom-hana-sakashi-jiji-from-the-album-tawamure-e-playful-pictures-539615

Bamboo Princess

Kamishibai told in Japanese by two French students -- English subtitles.

Play by Japanese students told in English.

Japanese fairy tale illustrated and told in English.

Litle One Inch Boy

"Issunboshi," or "Little One Inch Boy"

Peach Boy

Told in Japanese with English subtitles.

Book read by an American student.



"The Peach Boy" told in English from Teacher Tube.

Allen Say

Allen Say speaks at the 2011 National Book Festival.

Allen Say interviewed by "Reading Rockets."

http://dianacruchley.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/kamishibai-man.pdf

Golden Bat: Original Superhero

http://www.comicsbulletin.com/columns/186/the-first-superhero--the-golden-bat/

From Golden Bat

to Golden Bat

Kamishibai and Peace

http://kyotojournal.org/creative-kyoto/kyoto-kamishibai-master/

Kamishibai products

http://www.storycardtheater.com/products.html

Look at these: (Possible WWII stories): http://www.doshinsha.co.jp/kamishibai/translations/result.php?e_lang=L03

http://www.doshinsha.co.jp/kamishibai/translations/form.php?lang=J#E9784494078653
Definitely order from here.

http://jsis.washington.edu/earc/downloads/classroom_materials_descriptions.pdf

http://aboutjapan.japansociety.org/resources/content/2/9/4/9/documents/children%20literature.pdf

Chocolate and Soldiers
http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic1174545.files/Chocolate_and_Soldiers.pdf

Last Kamishibai Man in Tokyo

http://www.storycardtheater.com/nagata.html

Article about "last Kamishibai man" in Tokyo: http://pingmag.jp/2006/11/06/kids-love-you-story-telling-man/

Manga on Wheels with Snacks: http://www.make-digital.com/make/vol22/?pg=25&pm=2&u1=friend#pg25

Presentation tips

Presentation tips

http://www.storycardtheater.com/use.html

http://looksgoodworkswell.blogspot.com/2006/11/foo-lessons-kamishibai.html

http://www.storycardtheater.com/PDFs/Kamishibai-Tips-Handout-2010.pdf

Wartime Kamishibai

A paper on wartime kamishibai

Info on the above YouTube documentary
A review on "Die for Japan"
A review on Manga Kamishibai
A review on
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Manga Museum

In Kyoto, is the Manga Museum. This would be a cool place to visit. Look at this collection of Manga!

Wow! I am interested in historical WWII Kamishibai. 

Apparently, 450 pro-war Kamishibai were produced/presented during the World War II era.

Other interesting facts:

* Kamishibai stories were written for boys (shonen), adventure or a period piece, and for girls (shojo) -- melodramas, featuring young girls as protagonists and focused on more down to earth scenarios, like a girl being teased in class. 

I want to find these favorites from the 1930s: Golden Bat and Tiger Boy -- two boy favorites; Snow White -- a favorite of the girls.

* Kenya Matsunaga cofounded the Japan Educational Kamishibai Association in the mid-1930s to "combat the scurrilous reputation of street-corner kamishibai."

* Tokyo survey in the 1930s found of 1,943 8-year-old schoolboys, 515 watched kamishibai stories more than twice a day. Kamishibai were banned in many schools and neighborhoods! According to the Manga Kamishibai book, "Officials claimed that kamishibai caused traffic problems because of the crowd of kids, that it was unhygienic because candy was passed along by dirty hands, and that the riotous compositions and colors were 'too stimulating' to young minds."