Storytelling and Identity - Fall 2023

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Prep Note – 11/9/2023

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On November 8, 2023

In Javier, prep note

After listening to the video, I found the story to be impactful. I enjoyed the music that was played throughout it, and accompanied with the shifting images — gave a very familiar and almost warm-hearted sensation to the narrative. There is notably a deeper theme to the story that has to do with “images” and “appearances.” It gives an additional level of insight into the life of Professor Dolson.

The images were likely most impactful. At times it was comedic, such as the image of the farmer and his wife painting with a unique take, and other times it helped guide the imaginative process with images of locations. The end where she starts describing the neighborhood, I recognized the song as Amazing Grace after doing a bit of research. It was interesting feeling and listening to how beyond the role of “words” told by Professor Dolson and “images” shown and guided by the picture- the additional depth of “sound and music” in shaping the story.

Prep Note 11/9/23

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On November 8, 2023

In kristine, prep note

What I noticed about Grammarly is that the edits are made in different categories such as correctness or clarity, which can be helpful if I want to focus on a certain area. I find that I have trouble with clarity sometimes, so the categories could help in that respect. Also, this could be because I’m not using Grammarly premium, but I can’t really select something that’s underlined and see what they’re suggesting, only how well I’m doing in particular areas overall. On the other hand, Hemingway seems a bit more user-friendly and has more specified edits, such as having too many adverbs, which I honestly never thought about much, but I actually do have too many adverbs sometimes. Additionally, it seems that all of my sentences are “very hard to read,” which might be true, but I think that’s just my writing style, or because my paper has a more advanced audience than the editor thinks. So these specific edits can actually be helpful to me because Hemingway points things out that I probably wouldn’t pick up on if I was proofreading my paper by myself.

About the video, I think I can relate to the overall message to some degree. I have found myself having similar thoughts when it comes to the outward appearance of a house or neighborhood. However, I also found my way to the same realization as in the video. We don’t see the daily struggles people go through just based on how a home looks. There is a lot of sacrifice and hard work going on behind the scenes. It’s easy to criticize people until you walk in their shoes.

Prep Note 11/9/23

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On November 8, 2023

In Kaylee, prep note

I enjoyed Professor Dolson’s story because it was very well crafted. I noticed how there was a mix of personal pictures and more generic ones, which I liked. I liked hearing a personal story from Professional Dolson and enjoyed the happy/nostalgic tone throughout the video. The last part about how the houses were “us, not they” was the part that I found the most powerful. We as a society as quick to make judgments, and this story is a good example of the importance of slowing down and thinking more about similarities than differences.

Prep Note 11/9

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On November 8, 2023

In Julia, prep note

I loved watching and listening to Professor Dolson’s story. I liked how the visuals went along with the words and provided different context to what she was talking about. I found that the moral of her story is “don’t judge a book by its cover.” I think that if we look around and judge other people, or their homes, we lose sight of ourselves and how we may be doing the same things. The story also began with context about the house and her family, and I liked how the end of the story tied back into the beginning. Overall, I see the importance of having a story that you can pinpoint a specific theme from and use that to relate to a bigger picture in life.

Prep Note 11/9

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On November 8, 2023

In Ana, prep note

Professor Dolson’s video story about the House was very entertaining, and I enjoyed getting to know something new about professor. I liked the pace the story was told at, as it was slow enough for us to be able to process all the pictures and look at the visuals on the screen. I liked the introduction of the having a real estate dad, but most of all I liked the closing statement of how a group of people who you assumed were dangerous, or that you assumed  lived in an unsafe area were just like you in reality. Being able to put yourself in someone else’s perspective, especially someone who you had previously held biases against.

Prep Note 11/7

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On November 7, 2023

In prep note, Will L

I listened to the Walking Together story, which was about making a new friend. I could hear how the storyteller was nervous about sharing this story, I think partially because she was nervous to public speak, but more because as she recalled, she was nervous to make her new friend. She clearly wanted to share this story and she told it in chronological order. She started with her reason for needing a new friend, then told how she made a new friend, and then how she and that new friend spent their time.

Prep Note 11/7/23

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On November 7, 2023

In Mitch, prep note

Story: “Okay To Tell” by Emely Recinos

My expectations about how this story would pan out weren’t correct at any point. I thought she would go on to explain more about her friend group in particular (which she didn’t, she only mentioned it once), I thought she would direct more attention towards her own struggle dealing with the fact that she was losing her vision (which she seemed to just play off, as if other people knowing about it affected her more), and I imagined she would have some big insight at the end of it that was more than just that she should tell more people about it.

In my opinion, her narrative was all over the place, bringing attention to certain things such as her friend group, having to use a ‘blind person stick’, her cousins or her brother’s beliefs, and jumping to something else in the next sentence. I also noticed how the expression in her voice probably got more across than a block of the same text would’ve.

Prep Note 11/7/23

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On November 7, 2023

In Kaylee, prep note

I listened to the “Wild Women and Dancing Queens” story. The speaker was Lex Jade, and she was very passionate and lively while she was telling her story. When she was 14 years old, she went to an all-girls camp and learned a lot about her femininity and self-image. One night at her camp, her cabin decided to go streaking. She was nervous about it but she eventually decided to take part in the situation. While they were running around she was worried about getting hurt or sick, but she didn’t worry about her body or what she looked like. She and her cabinmates sang “Dancing Queen” by ABBA, and that night did a lot to help how she viewed herself and those around her. The narrative structure of her story is chronological, and she tells the story in the order in which the events happened. I really enjoyed hearing Lex Jade tell this story and I respect her openness and vulnerability while telling it.

Prep Note 11-07-23

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On November 7, 2023

In Brice, prep note

The story I listened to was “Okay to Tell.” This story was about a girl and her desire to hide from others that she was rapidly loosing her sight.  The entire story revolves around her trying to conceal the truth until her younger brother reveals to her cousins that she’s blind.  The most notable aspect of this story was the emotion that could be heard from the authors voice.  Since the story is very personal and emotional for the speaker, the speaker continuously nervously laughs, almost in a way that makes you think she’s about to get emotional and teary eyed.  This adds a whole other characteristic to storytelling.  Being told in front of others, you get a glimpse as to the emotions the speaker feels presently but possibly the emotions they felt in the past as a part of their story.

Prep Note – 11/7

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On November 6, 2023

In Nick G, prep note

The story I listened to was about the speaker’s first kiss experience. Throughout the story, the speaker’s emotion conveyed her nervousness about having her first kiss. As she told the story, she was nervously laughing and stuttering, not to a point where it disrupted the story but to where it made it seem like she was just telling the story to you one-on-one. It made it feel more personal and less rehearsed, therefore more relatable to the audience. The fact that the story was also told to a live audience and you could hear their reactions to everything she said made it even more relatable. In terms of the narrative structure, the story was told chronologically from start to finish but with small anecdotes about what the author was thinking or feeling at certain points in the story. This, in combination with both her cadence and the live audience, made the story feel more personal.

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