We sometimes get bogged down when getting details via circling during stories. We get too many details. Details are great – they flush out the spatial imagery of the story. But they shouldn’t overshadow its linear piece, the actions/events that move things forward. It’s not like we have three hours to create a story. How to get good details from the students yet stay true to the general flow of the original story script? There is no real answer to this except to be cautious and notice when you are piling up too many details. How many of us have parked too long on location 1 when the kids wanted us to move things along to a second and maybe even a third location? It’s easy to do. We have to remember that the kids want to know what happened. The whole TPRS thing is based on the kids wanting to know what happened.
