6th Grade Residency – Storytelling Arts
Each 6th grade Language Arts Literacy class met with the storytellers (teaching artists) for the first of three sessions. Working with the theme of Creating Community, students and teachers will experience the unique Art of Storytelling through listening to a variety of tales based in the oral tradition. Students will explore personal and social connections to these tales through discussion, creative drama, and writing. Through discussions of and interactions with story archetypes, symbols, and motifs, students will recognize the multilayered meanings inherent in folktales and myths. Teachers will be exposed to a new set of skills they can use to enhance literacy instruction and to create classroom community.
A Morris Arts residency, made possible through a generous $7,000 grant from The Countess Moira Charitable Foundation through Storytelling Arts Inc., as well as support from the Morris Educational Foundation and the FMS HSA
Perseus and Medusa preformed by The Tanglewood Marionettes
The Tanglewood Marionettes preformed story of Perseus and Medusa last Friday. Frelinghuysen students all took a trip back to ancient Greece and accompany Perseus through his personal trials and glorious quests in this masterful production.
Performances sponsored by the Morris Educational Foundation
To see what is coming up in Cultural Arts at FMS or what has already come through (workshop with Graphic Novelist Kevin Pyle and Poetry workshop with Lamont Dixon) please visit our page!