{"id":2166,"date":"2023-09-21T21:00:33","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T01:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/storytelling2023\/?p=2166"},"modified":"2023-09-23T15:52:30","modified_gmt":"2023-09-23T19:52:30","slug":"class-notes-9-21-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/storytelling2023\/2023\/09\/21\/class-notes-9-21-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Class Notes 9\/21\/23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Differences between Prof. Dolson\u2019s teaching style and Dr. Coogan&#8217;s<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. Coogan &#8211; more rigid, get an assignment, turn it in, get feedback, and rework.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prof. Dolson &#8211; more of a flow, not specific<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li>see <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/storytelling2023\/2023\/09\/23\/about-teaching-professors-and-what-we-are-doing-in-this-class\/\">this post<\/a> for a detailed explanation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At what points did the discussion feel awkward?<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kaylee &#8211; when she asked about social services.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Terence asked if anyone had been in a similar situation as him, and he noted that there were no black people in our class. Kaylee actually did grow up in a similar situation to him, she wasn&#8217;t asking from an outside\/above perspective but actually, she just wanted to hear his opinions because\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Context plays an important role when asking these questions<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Julia &#8211; witnessing the dynamic between Dr. Coogan and Terence and Kelvin, him \u201cshushing them.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What did Terence view as bad with social services?<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its just so different of a service now vs. when it could have affected him.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What is the assumption\/cultural views about white women when it comes to black men?<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bad things can happen, for example, the woman calling the cops on a man just watching birds.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Karen &#8211; a stereotype and narrative in our culture<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prof. Dolson and her friend on parents telling them what to do if they ever got lost.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIf you get lost find a policeman\u201d vs. \u201cgo and find an older woman.\u201d<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Completely different scripts<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prof. Dolson was having a hard time making Terence feel welcome because he took what she was doing as hovering. She told him however that she is a mom, and she makes people feel welcome by feeding them, and he started laughing and understood why she was doing what she was doing.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When we share a personal story, it sets a different tone and a different level of trust.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It allows for a different kind of conversation.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Family<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your family is still your family.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They put out things about their family exactly as it is<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nick &#8211; if someone calls out one of your family members since you identify so closely with your family, it then feels like they&#8217;re calling you out.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Identity &#8211; your family is such a big part of your identity, and once you start college you get away from that part of your identity and you get a chance to view that part from a different perspective.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do you (international students) have thoughts\/questions about American culture?<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Angelos had a bigger culture shock coming here compared to when he went to Singapore when he was sixteen<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He saw a lot of ignorance and privilege, which led to a lot of assumptions and stereotypes leading to his culture shock<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Greece is much more homogenous, whereas people in the US feel they are already diverse simply because they are around different cultures<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wesley doesn\u2019t consider himself a typical Chinese, he uses a VPN to access information that a lot of Chinese don\u2019t; ways of entertainment are different, but lifestyles are very similar between the two cultures.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When we were telling our stories from our childhoods in the first week, the goal was to get to know each other and create a level of trust. We&#8217;re going to go back to that with our memoirs,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Personal storytelling &#8211; We are going to \u201cwork up\u201d one of our stories, we will pick one of our childhood stories and expand on it<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Realness<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mitch &#8211; Since they chose what to put in their story ten years ago and now, we got to hear from them in real life with no filter it was so much more real, and even their talking about it couldn&#8217;t be everything they wanted to share.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can only say so much, but they were so animated and loud<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Javier &#8211; They commented how much more there was to their lives, but they kept them out because they didn&#8217;t want it to become embellished.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What was important about having the opportunity to tell their story and then come talk to us?<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s real it\u2019s messy, uncomfortable, and sometimes funny; you feel good when you make a connection<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are so privileged that when reading written text, we can lose the power of oral storytelling<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Looking for shaping and impact \u2192 close textual analysis<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why is that an academic discipline?\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brice &#8211; It helps you to connect your own world and personal experience\/perspectives to other things<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mitch &#8211; science is much more rigid whereas English is a lot more interpretive, free form, less boundary<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WOWO was a nonfiction memoir<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a memoir, it is a book, but it&#8217;s not a novel because it&#8217;s not fiction<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the past priests were taught to read so that they could pass down the knowledge of the bible or religious text so they would tell the stories and interpret them for the people<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When the printing press happened people could get the book for themselves and have their own interpretations but people also stopped telling the stories orally<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Collegiate_Gothic\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Collegiate Gothic<\/span><\/a>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Place of learning<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Following in a long line of people who are learning storytelling.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Learn more:<a href=\"https:\/\/human.libretexts.org\/Bookshelves\/Composition\/Introductory_Composition\/Writing_in_College_-_From_Competence_to_Excellence_(Guptill)\/1%3A_Really_Writing_Again\/1.2%3A_The_Origins_of_Higher_Education\"> quick note on current higher education<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Learn more: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scriptorium\">monasteries and writing (scriptorium)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our class focus going forward:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Focusing on language and our interpretation of stories<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Learning from experience, peers, writing, and reading<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our portfolios will be process portfolios<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Several pieces where we\u2019ll quote ourselves about a certain quote.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reflection Questions:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Look at the number next to my name in the blog, how many times have I written to the blog? What were those like? What are some other opportunities to contribute to the blog that I will have in the future?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Have you gone back and read the class notes yet? If so when? How might it be helpful to read them?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Have you read other people\u2019s prep notes? Is that something you would want to do? What would be the effect of doing that? Have you commented on someone else&#8217;s prep note?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thinking about the assignment instructions for the analysis essay how many times did you read them?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thinking about the content of the class, what interests you the most? 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