Chimananda Ngozi Adichie eloquently challenges us to consider the concept of story; that one version does not matter more than another version.  She says to tell only one part of a story is a lie. 

Question we can ask our students: Have you been in a situation where only one side of the story was shared?  How do we decide which story to believe?  An exercise would be to ask each student to think about something precious in their family - an heirloom, a gift, something of value and to write a story about it.  If they can't bring in the item, take a photo to send in or draw a picture of it.

After all have had a chance to share, let them know ahead of time that something is going to happen to their objects.  (You might need to tell them they will eventually be returned depending on your students).  Stage a heist after school one day and take all the objects and arrange them "museum style" in another space.  You could leave foot prints for younger students to set the scene.  Invite the students to enter that space to view these precious objects someone found.  You could even make up labels describing a story about the item, where it was found, how much it was worth, etc. 

I wouldn't spend a lot of time in that space as emotions could rise quite quickly.  Return to class and scribe for the students what that felt like.  How did it feel to have your precious object displayed in a different place?  How did it feel to read a different "story" of your object.  (You might consider writing some descriptions exactly how the student described it so they don't leave the experience thinking all descriptions of objects are disingenuine.) 

Make the connection to items in museums and co-create critical questions to ask when viewing objects.  You might create a slide show of specific African artifacts and their published "story."  Generate what other questions we could ask when reading a "story."