Storytelling Project

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Using any technology of your choice, you will
collect at least 2 stories from yourself,
friends, family, or strangers.
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You must record in as much detail as you can the
content of these stories.
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After you collect these stories, you must analyze
them using the techniques learned in class.
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For example, you examine a story in terms of its
structure, meaning, and stylistics.
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PROPOSAL DUE WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7
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EXAMPLES

1. Birth Stories
2. Childrens Stories
3. Coming-of-Age Stories
4. Immigrant Stories
5. First Love Stories

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EXAMPLES
6. Addiction Stories 7. Traumatic Stories 8.
Illness Stories 9. Supernatural Stories 10.
Mythological Stories 11. Legends and Rumors 12.
Folktales and Fairytales
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EXAMPLES
13. Crime Stories 14. War/Conflict Stories 15.
Chaos/Natural Disaster Stories 16. Trickster
Stories 17. Family Stories 18. Humorous Stories
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COLLECTION DUE MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2
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TRANSCRIPTION DUE MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9
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ANALYSIS DUE (DRAFT) MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23
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GROUP CHAPTER DUE WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2
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1. Structure (WHERE?) What are the informal and
rules of the storytelling context? What are
its general patterns? How is the context
organized? 2. Process (WHEN?) How does the
event proceed from one moment to the next?
What are we witnessing or imagining as we listen
to the story over time? 3. Identity (WHO?)
Who are the people involved? In what ways are
they interacting? What are the roles or social
identities they are taking on? 4. Experience
(HOW?) How are the players experiencing
the event or story? What do you see, hear, feel,
touch, smell, taste? What other sensory
information are you experiencing? 5. Framing
(WHAT IS GOING ON?) What forms of
metacommunication are being used? How
do we know that the participants are telling the
story or moving along the way? What frames,
codes, and signals are being used throughout the
process? 6. Function (WHY?) What immediate
purpose or function does this story serve
for its participants? Why are they playing at
all? To what end? 7. Ideology (TO WHAT EXTENT?)
What are the larger social meanings of the
story? What are its political and economic
implications?
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Framing (WHAT IS GOING ON?) What forms of
metacommunication are being used? How
do we know that the participants are telling a
story? What frames, codes, and signals are
being used throughout the process? GENRE
name or frame of the event kind or form of
orienting frameworks for
communicating EXAMPLES myth, legend,
folktale, news, personal experience story,
fiction, poem, illness narrative, sci-fi story,
etc.