3.+Telling+Stories

=TELLING STORIES:= Objective: All media tell stories. Students will analyze the author’s intentional construction of narrative to achieve desired effect.

Teaching sequence is key

**__Initial Brainstormed Ideas__** Story creation, decisions that go into telling stories matter. Constructed stories, see epic. Narrative is overall construction. Jokes, lab reports, news, comic books, No matter the medium, sequence is crucial. Break down narrative “Everything bad is Good for You,” Stephen Johnson. How real is reality TV? Making assumptions. Telling stories in Ads (Hallmark, Coke,etc). Memoir: telling your own stories. Photojournalism, reporting, theatre, do cumentary, film

**__Key Terms and Concepts:__** Narrative Sequence

**__Lessons:__** __**Unit Intro**__ 6 word biographies - NPR (Need activity) “Up” beginning sequence.
 * __Narrative Structure Lesson__**

--Understand effects of varying narrative structures based upon core concepts (audience, format, authorship, etc.) (Poetry/SongLyrics, Memoir, Photojournalism, Magazine/Newspaper Feature, Picture books, Short story
 * __Apply Narrative Structure to Various Genres__** (Layer genres from linear/simple/thin to complex)

--Flip book, Storyboard, Film --Language of Film (distance, angle, movement) Resources = []
 * __Intro to Film__**

__**Exploration of Teen Story Through Film and TV**__ Explore the ways that various narrative structures affect the teen story (i.e. TV sitcom, TV drama, comedy film, drama film) Resources = David Denby Ideas: Comparison of That 70s Show to Bardy Bunch Look at documentary style like Office, Modern Family and real time shows like 24. Documentary: //American Teen//

Reading : //Fahrenheit 451// Reality v. illusion: []

Short Story Memoir Television/Reality TV Newspaper Magazine Film Photojournalism **
 * Genres to include:**
 * Poetry/Song Lyrics

Story Corp - NPR (Interview another of different age, different ethnicity, sex) Interview three different family members about same event and edit to show differing perspectives.
 * Culminating Activity**

Video: The Persuaders. Assignments: Creating own reality series or pseudo; redesign film poster. Storyboarding how you might approach a TV show differently, alternate endings., write a memoir (have done it in other classes).
 * __Other stuff__**

First Unit: Storytelling – through audio, words, pictures/visuals/graphics. Develop common vocabulary around media literacy. Terms and core concepts. Daily record of media exposure. Using Media in combination. Media Literacy, Keys to Interpreting Media Messages (57) Mad Men, The Persuaders, Digital Nation (PBS ) Everyone is a storyteller. Organize through core questions. Center for Media Literacy Core Questions. Guiding Questions -- Deconstruction: author, audience, content, purpose, format. Artist’s engagement from previous cultural materials. So we appropriate and transform. Retelling of stories: Three Little Pigs, Romeo and Juliet and representations. Cinderella story. The Epic: Odyssey.

Media Rich Classrooms, Lesson #9: Analyzing epic patterns of the Odyssey in Contemporary Films, 72. 20 Master Plots: all stories fall into those plots. Discovery of types of stories. Author of text: why is it told this way? Each group investigate why it was published and for whom. Formula for epic story (US Airlines article) How do different people react (audience)? Super Bowl Ad for Google searches. Disney/ABC affiliation. -Long form journalism site: [] Advertising: slotted for demographic time. Criticism Skills: High School Confidential, AP Lang. do teen movies exist as reflection of us or do we reflect teen movies? Author: nerds who went to film school. “The Outsider” in various media… narrow down character in stories. Currenttv.com: viewer generated content. www.archive.org/details/movies: Wendy’s suggestion: writing better social letters.
 * __Resources (Add below):__**