Writing the Narrative
Personal Narrative Checklist
Great Narratives To Read/Listen to – Up This Week The Orange
Spring 2015 English 111 Weekly Journaling
Grammar and Vocabulary Journaling
Song Analysis
8 Mile v. T.S. Eliot’s “Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
Eminem is a brilliant lyracists and T.S. Eliot is considered that grand daddy of modern poetry.
1. In the two works above, each artists is essentially telling the same age-old adversity story – What is it? can your figure it out? What do those two literary works have in common. What is the adversity that Rabbit and Prufrock must overcome?
2. Alanis Morissette is saying what about adversity in this song? Is she speaking of any specific type of adversity. Cite a lyric to back up your analysis.
3. Anthony Kiedis is saying what about adversity in this song? Is he speaking of any specific type of adversity. Cite a lyric to back up your analysis.
What kind of adversity is the speaker in this song/poem speaking to. Do you think they over came it? Why or why not? Cite a lyric to back up your analysis.
Rather than adversity, I think this song/poem is about fear. How does fear relate to adversity? Cite a lyric to back up your analysis.
THE SOCRATIC METHOD
BE PREPARED FOR SOCRATIC SEMINAR DISCUSSION NEXT WEEK (50 Points!)
You must have prepared this in order to participate in discussion:
1. Name:
2. Title and Author of Text (or Podcast)
3. Two sentence summary of material. If you will be discussing multiple texts or pieces, two sentences for a minimum of three, but more if you like (also the title and author for each).
4. A personal response for of three to six sentences. Pick a specific moment from each piece that challenges you personally, or makes you think about your own life.
5. Three thoughtful, open ended questions that relate to the material your covered. These questions should be a discussion starter that will lead to a good conversation.
Example:
Name: Amber Maiden
Title and Author: True Love, Excerpt from The Way Through, Lesson’s Learned on Life, Love and the Journey
Summary: This excerpt is about me (Amber Lisa) falling in love with my thug boyfriend in high school. I cover a lot of lessons that I learned from that relationship.
Personal Response: I don’t have much of a personal response to this now, because it’s very, very old to me. Ancient history. But at the time I was writing it, it was very emotional because – although it doesn’t say so in that particular chapter, later on, Key was murdered; and that affected me very deeply. His death caused me to really question what was going on in my life; and as a result of his death I made some definite decision about how I would change my life. When I was writing the chapter, I was actually processing a lot of stuff about that relationship that I had suppressed so it was very difficult for me. I know that I am writing about this as a writer and not a reader, but as a reader, (reading my own work) the responses are often the same.
Three thoughtful open-ended questions: Okay I find this part hard, but here we go: Why was Key an undercover thug? Why did he love me? How did he learn to become so fricking manipulative?
Writing the Narrative
Great Narratives To Read/Listen to – “Just Get Over It”
Spring 2015 English 111 Weekly Journaling
Grammar and Vocabulary Journaling
Song Analysis – Required
50 ways to Leave Your Lover – Paul Simon
Baby You’re a Rich Man – The Beatles
Drops of Jupiter – Train
Thank You – Alanis Morisette
Across the Universe – The Beatles/Fiona Apple
Story Telling – Love, Peace & Joy
Chapter 9: “True Love” – Amber Lisa – Optional
Letters to Santa – Mandetory
“No Perfect Love” #426 – Snap Judgment – MANDATORY
The Gangster’s Girl – This is Hysterical!
Simply Happy – Required
Be Happy
It’s Love!
Cooperation!
Share!
“A Love Supreme” #404 – Snap Judgment
“Joy and Pain ” #503 – Snap Judgment
Letters to Santa – Mandetory
You all will be leading your own discussion on the readings/stories and songs, which means YOU MUST BE PREPARED! We will talk about this more in class.
Story Telling – Adversity
The Way Through, By Amber Lisa
Preface: “Just Get Over It” – Amber Lisa – MANDATORY
How is Amber Lisa’s preface about overcoming adversity? Does she tell you what kind of adversity she is facing? How does she overcome it?
“The Orange” – Snap Judgment – MANDATORY
How does the main character in this story overcome his particular adversity? What rhetorical style is used to make the point? Is it effective?
“A Love Supreme” #404 – Snap Judgment
“Making it Work” #406 – Snap Judgment
“Lemonade” #318 – Snap Judgment
The Nova Rhetorical Style 