Student Exercise 6: Storytelling in
Prehistory:
Fictional Presentation
Individual or small group project (see details for 2003 on syllabus). Pick a particular prehistoric site, time period, and geographic location. Write a description of a scene from the daily life of a person similar to you in age, gender, socioeconomic status, etc. Remember to incorporate appropriate material culture, descriptions of landscape, activities, etc. These fictional descriptions can be 2-3 pages long, and take 5 minutes to read in class. Instructor can make the assignment completely oral or require students to hand in written version as well. After presentations the class can compare different views of life at same site by different actors/stakeholders. Or they can guess which time period the presenter is portraying. As an alternative, one group can write a story of just everyday life while another writes about a particular adventure or excitement that is not typical, but both are at the same site and time period. For oral presentation audiovisual aids can be used. Class presentations can be evaluated using the STUDENT PEER AND INSTRUCTOR EVALUATION FORM.