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A Circular Journey To Imaginative Narrative Writing
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Abstract: This lesson will help the teacher show students how to bring their imaginative narratives to a logical ending. Students often have difficulty while writing imaginative narratives. They tend to get off to a good beginning and then cannot maintain focus well enough to bring their story to an end. Two well-known ... More »
A Million Fish....Serving up Exaggeration
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Abstract: Students will become familiar with the term "exaggeration" and how it can be used in stories to catch the reader's attention. Students will create narrative stories of their own using exaggeration.
Action Chains
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Abstract: Students learn to elaborate on an event in a narrative by expanding their sentences into action chains. Expanding single actions into an action chain provides the reader with a more detailed picture of an event in a narrative.
After Columbus, Fall 2003
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Abstract: Sometime after 1492, the concept of the New World or America came into being, and this concept appeared differently — as an experience or an idea — for different people and in different places. This semester, we will read three groups of texts: first, participant accounts of contact between native Americans ... More »
Basic Filmmaking for High School Drama Departments
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Abstract: This is a course in Narrative Film Production which shows how drama departments can create short motion pictures as part of a drama class. Currently, we have only one lesson. But eventually, there will be more. And with each lesson, you will participate in the making of a movie based on your own story.
Composing Your Life: Exploration of Self through Visual Arts and Writing, Spring 2006
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Abstract: In this interdisciplinary seminar, we explore a variety of visual and written tools for self exploration and self expression. Through discussion, written assignments, and directed exercises, students practice utilizing a variety of media to explore and express who they are.
Creating Hypertext Dialogues Drawn from Narrative History Collections
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Abstract: invites students to use documents from California As I Saw It: First Person Narratives, 1849-1900, to create hyperscripts depicting the motivations, expectations, fears, and realizations of immigrants who settled California between 1849 and 1900. Students' hyperscripts are online written dialogues that ... More »
Exciting Narrative Endings
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Abstract: This lesson emphasizes the importance of a strong ending for a narrative essay and teaches students specific items to include in their endings.
Forms of Western Narrative, Spring 2004
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Abstract: Major narrative texts from diverse Western cultures, beginning with Homer and concluding with at least one film. Emphasis on literary and cultural issues: on the artistic significance of the chosen texts and on their identity as anthropological artifacts whose conventions and assumptions are rooted in ... More »
"Forward" to the Great Escape
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Abstract: In this lesson, the students will read a primary source document from Documenting the American South and examine a painting by Jacob Lawrence to illustrate the conditions of the underground railroad before the US Civil War. The students will create a painting and a narrative related to the underground ... More »
Getting Hooked: Introduction for a Narrative
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Abstract: Students will be able to identify techniques for writing an introduction for a narrative and use them effectively.
In His/Her Shoes
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Abstract: Students will research the laws around tobacco of another part of the world and write a brief narrative from the perspective living in the environment created by those regulations.
Interactive and Non-Linear Narrative: Theory and Practice, Spring 2004
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Abstract: Techniques of creating narratives that take advantage of the flexibility of form offered by the computer. Study of the structural properties of book-based narratives that experiment with digression, multiple points of view, disruptions of time and of storyline. Analysis of the structure and evaluation ... More »
Introduction to Media Studies, Fall 2003
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Abstract: Offers an overview of the social, cultural, political, and economic impact of mediated communication on modern culture. Combines critical discussions with hands-on "experiments" working with different media. Media covered include radio, television, film, the printed word, and digital technologies. Topics ... More »
Introduction to Video, Spring 2004
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Abstract: Introduction to video editing and interface devices. Explores video as an environmental, editorial and narrative form. Looks at issues of interpretation, meaning, expression and how they relate to historical, social, and cultural issues.
Lessons for the Children: Creating a Picture Book about Slavery
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Abstract: Using the slave narratives of Harriet Jacobs and Ellen Craft made available through the Documenting the American South on-line collection, students will examine the institution of slavery, and create their own picture books.
Little Bit ? BIG BIT ? Little Bit
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Abstract: This lesson helps students who tend to jump right in and tell their entire story in the first few sentences and then struggle to complete their story. Students will learn to start and end their stories with just a "Little Bit" about the setup and closure of the story.
Looking Back - An Art/English/Social Sciences Interdisciplinary unit
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Abstract: This is an interdisciplinary unit that incorporates research of historical events of the past century. By students learning to recognize that society impacts the themes within art and literature, students then take this knowledge base and interview an individual to develop a biographical narrative, a ... More »
Major English Novels, Spring 2004
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Abstract: Subject studies important examples of the literary form that, between the beginning of the eighteenth century and the end of the nineteenth century, became an indispensable instrument for representing modern life, in the hands of such writers as Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Burney, Austen, Scott, ... More »
My Story - Personal Narrative
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Abstract: Student will compose a narrative that explores a time when their lives were affected by tobacco.