Jackson Gillman | Inside Storytelling

Jackson Gillman is known as the "Stand-Up Chameleon." He incorporates song, dance, mime, and sign language into his storytelling. What distinguishes him from other storytellers is his use of movement in storytelling. He uses the work of Rudyard Kipling in some of his storytelling. 

Standards

• C Communication
  • C.LCS Language, Craft, and Structure
    • C.LCS.4 Critique how a speaker addresses content and uses stylistic and structural craft techniques to inform, engage, and impact audiences.
• C Communication
  • C.LCS Language, Craft and Structure
    • C.LCS.4 Critique how a speaker addresses content and uses stylistic and structural craft techniques to inform, engage, and impact audiences.
• Grade 1: Orally produce single-syllable words by blending sounds including consonant blends in spoken words.
  • Grade 2: Use a base word to determine the meaning of an unknown word with the same base.
    • RI.LCS.11 Analyze and critique how the author uses structures in print and multimedia texts to craft informational and argument writing.
• Grade 2: Use and apply knowledge of how inflectional endings change words.
  • Grade 2: Make predictions before and during reading; confirm or modify thinking.
    • RI.MC.5 Determine meaning and develop logical interpretations by making predictions, inferring, drawing conclusions, analyzing, synthesizing, providing evidence, and investigating multiple interpretations.
    • RI.MC.6 Summarize key details and ideas to support analysis of central ideas.
• Grade 2: Use a base word to determine the meaning of an unknown word with the same base.
  • Grade 2: Use the meanings of individual words to predict the meaning of compound words.
    • RL.LCS.9 Interpret and analyze the author’s use of words, phrases, and conventions, and how their relationships shape meaning and tone in print and multimedia texts.