They successfully surprise and do battle with the Taira warriors. In their haste to flee, the Taira warriors overload their ships and capsize. Other events include the beheadings of the Taira chieftain Moritoshi and general Tadanori, and the Taira leader Tomori riding to the safety of the boats on his swift and brave horse. Activities Elementary School Have students read a story in class and select passages to illustrate. Fold heavy paper into six equal sections.
Students can arrange the episodes in a sequential or random composition.
Quotations from the story can be used to divide the parts of the story depicted, or students could invent their own devices similar to the clouds in these screens. Middle School Students will select an important event they studied in history class. Divide students into two groups to create a pair of screens about the event. Students should decide which stages of the event they want to depict and how to arrange the composition to create a descriptive narrative. They may also choose to depict a single, significant episode that tells the entire story without showing individual events.