“Among Flipino hunter
gatherers, storytelling is valued more than any other skill, and the best story
tellers have the most children”
By: Ed Yong
Published: The
Atlantic, Dec 5 2017, https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/12/the-origins-of-storytelling/547502/
Level of Difficulty:
*
BEFORE YOU READ
·
Oral Tradition of
Storytelling: Definition, History & Examples
·
Written
& Oral Traditions in Africa (500-1800 CE)
·
https://study.com/academy/lesson/written-oral-traditions-in-africa-500-1800-ce.html#transcriptHeader
QUESTIONS
1.
The story of the Sun and Moon is an example of a
story which…
2.
Storytelling is so widespread and has been
around for so long that it can be considered …
3.
The social function of storytelling is
emphasized by the fact that…
4.
Migliano included storytelling among her
criteria because she thought it would be…
5.
What was surprising about the result of the
experiment?
6.
Read the examples of the Agda’s stories. What do
they have in common? They emphasize…
7.
The Agda depend on stories rather than religion
to guarantee pro social behavior because…
8.
What does “That” refer to in the phrase “That’s
just a correlation…”? The fact that…
9.
We can accept that storytelling is an important
human adaptation not because it serves a social purpose but because….
10.
How did Migliano know that the subjects were
being honest during the survey?
11.
The fact that storytelling…………….is the social
benefit of this custom
12.
The examples provided in the paragraph beginning
“For example…” all prove that…
13.
The example of the Maya speaking people proves
that…
WRITING TASK
Write an essay in which you discuss the role of storytelling
in society.
THE DESIRABILITY OF
STORY TELLERS, KEY AND TEACHERS’ NOTES
This straight forward
text provides a good introduction to deep reading and inferential questions.
The questions are varied and an attempt has been made to cover various
cognitive skills.
1. Is
influenced with a theme of cooperation and equality (There is a grammar mistake
in this text: the preposition should be by not with)
2. An
important human adaptation
3. Stories
arose partly as a way of cementing social bonds, and instilling an ethic of
cooperation.
4. An
interesting contrast against the other esteemed skills
5. Storytelling
acumen mattered far more than all other skills (The following sentence would do
so long as it were replaced with storytelling)
6. Cooperation,
egalitarianism and gender equality
7. They
are a small community
8. Sharing
was more likely in camps with a higher proportion of good story tellers
9. It
benefits people who are good at it
10. They
didn’t nominate the same people as exceptional hunter gatherers, child minders
and so on
11. Reinforces
norms and ethics
12. Hunter
gatherers use their tales to pass down information about food, weather and more
13. Our
wonderfully human universal of loving stories can also become an all too human
vulnerability, fostering enmity as readily as amicable relations
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