Good evening :)Tonight we began our exploration of fiction, focusing on plot and character but also covering other aspects. It was a fine beginning! For Thursday, we will move on to point of view and theme.
These are our readings: chapter 5 (including stories) (98-134) and “Girl” (397-8) as well as “Dinner with Dr. Aziz.” One of our stories will be Lynda Barry's "Today's Demon: Magic," a work of graphic fiction.
Before I go onto the questions, here are links to information about MLA:
Here are a few more questions for your journal:
-- how is your extended journal entry on drama/theater coming along? (Feel free to post your draft at Multiply.)
-- how would you apply Erikson, Kohlberg, or Gilligan's theory to the short stories we've read so far?
You may also find Piaget's theory to be useful:
-- choose one of the terms we discussed tonight and then use it to examine one of the short stories we've read so far. (Feel free to choose one of the stories from ch. 5, "Girl," or "Dinner with Dr. Aziz.")
-- do you believe that people can change? why? why not?
-- do you believe that a person's character is consistent? why? why not?
-- how does your experience help you interpret any of the short stories we've read so far?
-- How might doing research on history, economics, gender, ethnicity, or literature help you understand one of our short stories more?
-- Today we looked at stories in the third person. How does fiction change when you read a story in the first person (I, me, mine)? Which person do you prefer? Why?
-- How would ch. 4's stories change if they were told in the first person?
-- discuss the reliability of narrators.
-- Choose a story we've read. What is its theme? How is the theme different from a director's central idea?
-- How does the author's gender affect the stories we've read?
-- Is "Girl" a short story? why? why not?
-- Is "Today's Demon: Magic" typical of the graphic fiction you've read? why? why not?
-- Which graphic fiction ought to be studied in EN 190 and other English classes?
-- Is graphic fiction literature? why? why not?
-- how do you define literary fiction?
-- do you read "genre" fiction (i.e., mysteries, SF, romances, fan fiction)? should these stories be studied in En 190?
-- how did our brief exploration of storytelling help you understand fiction more? (here is a link to the video that we watched:
-- what purpose does literary fiction serve?
See you in class!
Dr. Szlyk
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