Your Name Emily Chang TITLE The Bird

I. BACKGROUND
A. Transition: Me Tell you Story.
B. Relevant Background:

C. Growing up, me live near park. One day, me want to go to the park,
play. Me walk (show walking). Arrive.

D. Me see big train play. (show climbing up, getting on). SIT. Me tall.
*Suddenly* (sign wrong eyebrows UP) (show feeling something on
head) Me look around, rain NO. hmm. Shrug. Me tired. *get up* me go
to house.

E. Me arrive at house. Yell Mom come here. *show her arriving*. (gesture
is something on my head). Switch to mom: sign searching, searching,
looking looking. Eyes light up. Switch to me: what? Switch back to
mom: there bird poop. Switch to me: bird poop? Switch to mom: yes.
Me wash your hair. Switch back to me: look at audience – EW

F. Now, I see bird, I (gesture stay away).

Professor Debb Boness, M.Ed. My Childhood Story: Planning Sheet Unit 6: Storytelling