Last day of class. Sigh. Here’s where you want to be. Each episode page for your Narcos group should include: a brief plot summary an…
More Narcos! On each of your episode pages, you should now have: a plot summary (no more than 250 words or so); a sequence of…
We did several things with the Season 1, Episode 1, of Narcos in class on Tuesday: 1) boiled the episode down to its sequence of…
Remember, no class Thursday, November 21. Have a great recess! Vamos a Narcos! Things to do before we meet again on Tuesday, December 3 (see…
Let’s talk about Vladimir Propp’s “morphology of the folk tale.” I’m organizing our project groups – – check back before class for the Narco episodes…
Let’s take a look at Vladimir Propp’s “morphology of the folk tale.” And, it’s a Wikipedia day! On Thursday, we’ll review adding links, media, and…
Let’s read about the narrative grammar of the classic Western movie. (And, we’ll discuss Seymour Chatman’s terms: story and discourse.) We’re preparing to do our…
Let’s read pages 15 – 27 of Seymour Chatman’s Story and Discourse. (You may notice that his terminology is a bit different from Aristotle’s or…
Let’s read and talk about this brief excerpt on plot from Aristotle’s Poetics. And, let’s take a look at Hemingway’s “A Very Short Story.” You should…
Wikipedia day! I’ve assigned everybody two articles to review. (Look in the “Reviewing” column next to your user name.) (If you don’t have any reviews…