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.