Week Monday Wednesday
Week 1: Aug 29/31

forming class

 working in our class blog

creating class agreements

 prep note: Write about a time when you had a successful experience creating something/doing something with a group. What made it work?

creating class norms for learning community

NT:Angelos

R:Kaylee
Week 2: Sept 7/9

What is memory?…How do stories work? What difference does listening make? Story magic

 Read: Portfolio Keepers

Memory article 

 http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-firelight-conversations-20140922-story.html

 

NT:Haven

R:Wesley

  

review and revise Class Community Commitments (Please comment on the posting)

“Writing Our Way Out” (first half)

 

 

NT:Julia

R:Will S.
Week 3:Sept 12/14

effect of writing memoir stories

  

Writing Our Way Out (second half)

(*special prep: summarize one person’s story)

NT: Mitch

R: Brice

 

 Writing Our Way Out Discussion

“Quote Compost Heap”  DUE for workshop: (analysis essay on WOWO)

NT: Nick G

R: Chang

 
Week 4:

Sept 19/21

 

Na

 

 (prep questions posted to blog before class)

Writing Our Way Out–Coogan Visit

 

NT: Javier

R: Kristine

 rough draft of WOWO Analysis Essay DUE to Dolson;

Debrief Writers visit

NT: Will L

R: Ana
Week 5: Sept 26/28

 

CBL PREP:Who are the incarcerated youth?

   Speaker: Julie McConnel 

read article on youth incarceration

https://www.rva.gov/justice-services/post-dispositional-program

watch: https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/555659/inside-juvenile-detention/

**prep note should include a question you want to ask McConnell

NT: Kaylee

R: Angelos

 Debrief McConnel  visit;

Richmond’s Unhealed History Intro, ch 1-2

prep note question: What is the story of the founding of Virginia?

 NT:Wesley

R:Haven
Week 6:Oct 3/5

How are stories mediated and how does that affect the impact they have? Meta-narratives

 Class Community Self Assessment 1 DUE

Richmond’s Unhealed History ch 4-6

NT:Will S

R: Julia

  

Richmond UH: ch 7-8

NT:Brice

R: Mitch
Week 7:Oct 10/12

scholarly research and sources

 RUH

Annotated Bibliography Work; librarian visit

(bring one source)

read: https://www.bibliography.com/chicago/chicago-annotated-bibliography-entries/

*Meet in Library Seminar Room 2

NT: Chang

R: Nick G

  

 

Annotated Bibliography: first entry Draft DUE for workshop

 

tips on Creating midterm portfolio

 

NT:Kristine

R:Javier
Week 8:Oct 17/19

Finding old stories

 

 FALL BREAK  

DUE: Annotated Bibliography

turn in by email to Dolson by end of day

(we will do prep note together on the van, so no other prep note due.)

 

FIELD TRIP

 

 

NT: Ana

R: Will L
Week 9:Oct 24/26

Myths and Tales

 

 Draft workshop: MT Portfolio: bring a rough draft of one essay to class for peer workshop

prep note: post one question you have about the midterm portfolio essay

ALSO: Follow-up prep note: post your photo and insight from Thursday’s field trip.

begin personal storytelling assignment in class

NT:Angelos

R:Kaylee

  

NO CLASS Meeting!

Time to: work on MT portfolio and ALSO read:

read PERSEPOLIS: ch 1-3 (if you have the means to buy this book, I suggest you do. I think you will enjoy the illustrations up close! and it also pays the author for her work.)

https://readgraphicnovels.blogspot.com/2017/06/read-marjane-satrapi-persepolis-1.html

POST prep note: one thing you notice about how she tells her story

NT:Haven

R:Wesley
Week 10: Oct 31/Nov 2 Meet in Book Arts Studio: Basement of LIbrary

Prep note: something you notice about telling a story in a graphic format

 

  

MT Portfolio DUE

personal story  and discuss plans;

read PERSEPOLIS: ch4-10 (if you have the means to buy this book, I suggest you do. I think you will enjoy the illustrations up close! and it also pays the author for her work.)

https://readgraphicnovels.blogspot.com/2017/06/read-marjane-satrapi-persepolis-1.html

 

 

NT: Mitch

R: Brice
Week 13 WORKSHOP: BRING Revised version of  your analysis paper on Writing our Way Out for peer workshop

 

 

 

NT:Nick

R:Chang

  First 15 minutes:

review partner essay using Rubric (don’t assign points; use red yellow green pen/pencil/highlighter)

 

Then:

Discuss: Audio Stories

The Moth:

https://themoth.org/education/stories 

(choose one to listen to from Moth)

prep note: 1.focus on sound and what you hear. 2.what narrative structure does this have?

Discuss: other methods of telling stories

StoryCenter,

 

NT: Javier

R: Kristine
Week 12: Nov 14/16

 

 FINAL version of Analysis Essay DUE to Dolson for grade: class: continuing discussion on story options

 

REVISIT: Persepolis

REVISIT: Baum

power of story sharing for empathy building

Moth chapter 3

no prep note

 

 

NT: Will L

R: Ana

 

 

 Workday for personal stories

instead of prep note:

Bring your storyboard of your story

NT: Kaylee

R: Angelos
Week 13:Nov 21/23

Origin Stories

 Discuss: how to collect a story 

Class to be held on Zoom (link in email)

Story Corps Big Listen

NT:Will S

R: Julia

 Thanksgiving
Week 14:Nov 28/30 Debrief family story collection: Prep Note: What was the story you heard? What makes it a story?

TBD

NT:Brice

R: Mitch

 TBD

NT: Chang

R: Nick G
Week 15: Dec 5/7 Class Community Self-Assessment  2 DUE

Story Fest day  1:

Julia

Kristine

Kaylee

Will  S.

Will L.

Haven

Max storytelling time: 7 minutes

 

 Story Fest Day 2

Ana

Wesley

Angelos

Brice

Nick J

Mitch

Chang

Nick G

MAX storytelling time: 6 minutes