Syllabus and Assignment

Thank you for your great presence in class today. I so appreciate our time together. May your weekend bring fruit (apricots, tangelos) to all of your intentions. Here is a syllabus revision--still some dates in flux--and the general requirements for your first narrative assessment.

Don't forget, one of the core principles of our work together is self-care practice. For those of you who are ill or recovering, stressed or stretched, keep it simple and be sweet to yourself.

(oh, and if you haven't, please post your recipes)

Revised Storian Syllabus with dates:

Week 4--
Tuesday 2/23: Alphabet Ch 8-25
Thursday 2/24: Recipes for Freedom

Week 5
Tuesday 3/2: Storytelling, Methods of Memory
Thursday3/5: Storytelling

Week 6
Tuesday 3/9: Word and Image Create! Wrap up Alphabet
Thursday 3/11: Word and Image Evaluation--narrative due

Week 7
Tuesday 3/16: Coordinating Workshops Primer
Thursday 3/18: Guest Speaker (potential)

Week 8
Spring Break! Read Cunt and Kent

Week 9
Tuesday 3/30: Cunt and Kent
Thursday 4/1: Cunt and Kent

Week 10
Tuesday 4/6: Guest Speaker (potential)
Thursday 4/8: Modern Voices Paper Due

Week 11
Workshop Week 1 (proposed)
(Group will still meet Tuesday and Thursday to prepare for workshops, debrief and evaluate during the workshop weeks)

Week 12
Workshop Week 2

Week 13
Workshop Week 3

Week 14
Workshop Week 4

Week 15
Creation of Class Story—Meet on a weekend?

Week 16
Last Day, Project Proposals/Final Papers Due

To prepare for the narrative evaluation due next Thursday:
Please read the essay Methods of Memory: On Native American Storytelling

Consider the following questions:

How have stories shaped your life?

What stories in your life feel significant?

What stories would you rather redefine or eliminate? Why?

What new stories do you ant to articulate and embrace?

I would like you to write a 2-3 page ( more or less) narrative assessment of what you witnessed/felt in our oral storytelling process. Did it change your perspective? How do you view the above questions after engaging in oral storytelling?

Be creative and analytical. Use inference and reference from our texts, see where the journey leads you. The narrative assessment is a process, not a product. It may need to be written as...you guessed it...a story.

Love!