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8 thoughts on “How to Script a Story”
I have a question related to both Matava scripts (I bought the first book) and vPQA. From all that I’ve read about vPQA on this blog, my understanding is you do a vPQA deck, which then leads into a story. Right?
Okay, somewhere I read that most of us are doing vPQA only ONE VERB at a time. Yet in the Matava script, you may have three or four verbs as the new vocabulary for that week. For example, in the script, “The Thirsty Boy,” you have “is thirsty” and “goes to.” So how do you do that? You wouldn’t do two different vPQA decks, would you?
…you do a vPQA deck, which then leads into a story. Right?….
Yes, but you don’t HAVE to do a story after the PQA. Usually we do.
The second question is a good one. Do we have three vPQA decks to set up one story?
My answer is no. I have seen Julie set up a story by putting all three verbs in one deck. She just goes through all three verbs in one class, and she was on a regular 52 minute schedule, not blocks, and was easily able to get through all three targets.
There is a larger answer to this. It is based on the all-important premise that we are trying in our scope and sequence to teach verbs. Our goal in this work is to focus on the verbs. So it would rarely happen that you would need to teach three verbs in a vPQA class because it is likely that, except for the first months of level one, the kids will already know at least one of the story structures, like the verb goes in the your example, Larry. I hope that makes sense.
Yes, it does make sense. And I agree that we have to focus on the verbs. For example, last night, Ben, I did the Verb Slam on the verb I mentioned above, “ask.” After it was over my verb counter said I spoke the verb 58 times. Now that’s how it works!
The fun part began when I asked the chosen student, “To whom do you ask questions? To George Clooney? To Peyton Manning? To Sandra Bullock?” (Those from the student questionnaires) She replied, “No, I ask questions to YOU!” Meaning ME. Ha! So the train gathered steam and off we went with that.
Right on Larry. You are making fast progress toward your goals. Keep us informed! It is a wonderful thing to go through a growth process with someone. This isn’t easy but you are doing it.
Ben, I’m preparing to teach the story, “Afraid of the Package.” I want to first introduce it, though, with a vPQA deck. Anne has three constructs in it, “receives a package,” “doesn’t want to open it,” and “is afraid of.” Of course, the story follows the vPQA. In keeping with our discussion above, my question is whether I translate each of those constructs into English whenever I put each one on a separate slide? According to the classic vPQA model you’ve given us on this blog, you only put the LI on the first slide. Do you follow me? (I invite others to comment on this, too, if they want to. I’m basically trying to reconcile a Matava script to the basic requirements of a vPQA deck.
Good question. I just don’t think they need the L1 after the introductory slide as long as you are parking on the slide enough and going slowly enough. Dude what language is that deck going to be in? Whatever language, I would like to see and use that deck.
Okay, I’ll just use L1 on the introductory slide. The deck will be in Spanish. I’m sure you could translate it into French. I’ll send it to you as an attachment when I’m done.
Btw, Ben, I wrote the POC at Haiku Deck, Adam Tratt, to ask about copyright laws. Keep in mind I have subscribed to HD. This was his reply to me: “The photos you see are free to use under the Creative Commons license. Here’s more information: https://blog.haikudeck.com/free-photos-for-all-how-haiku-deck-puts-creative-commons-images-at-your-fingertips/”
Thanks,
Adam
I have been using the CCSearch that somebody gave us in here to get images for the slides. But I haven’t found the quality of images in that search engine that I found in HD. So I prefer to stay with HD for vPQA. I’m not trying here to open that huge debate we had a few months ago about HD, copyright laws, etc. I’m just telling you my preference.
Thanks Larry. We’ll resolve it. That you find HD better is an important for those watching this thread to know. It’ll work out. I like HD myself, find it easy to use. Maybe others will chime in. I don’t think our dream of hundreds of decks is going to happen. But if we end up feeding each other decks it’s gonna be good just if we do that.