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Capstone
Capstone explained: It is your FINAL PROJECT for Literature & Composition I. It will be made up of...
A multi-media project that answers the course's essential question: Why do we tell stories?
An annotated bibliography covering each of the texts you've read this year
Due TBD
Many more details to follow
(at right) We touched on this quotation in class. It comes from Maria Popova's site, BrainPickings. “Great storytelling, then, deals in the illumination of complexity — sometimes surprising, sometimes disquieting, always enlarging our understanding and self-understanding as we come to see the opaque parts of ourselves from a new angle, in a new light … So understood, storytelling becomes a way of walking with uncertainty and sitting with nuance, which is in turn a way of broadening the possibilities of existence in each of our lives.”
(at right) From Austin Kleon on navigating these pesky devices we have with us much of the day but also having a rich reading life: "Read a book instead" phone wallpaper.
(at right) LeVar Burton on The Daily Show discussing how stories have given voice to his experience and how he once helped define the gateway reading experience for kids on "Reading Rainbow."
“To study the way we read is to study the way the mind works: the way it evaluates a statement for truth, the way it behaves in relation to another mind (i.e., the writer's) across space and time. What we're going to be doing here, essentially, is watching ourselves read (trying to reconstruct how we felt as we were, just now, reading). Why would we want to do this? Well, the part of the mind that reads a story is also the part that reads the world; it can deceive us, but it can also be trained to accuracy; it can fall into disuse and make us more susceptible* to lazy, violent, materialistic forces, but it can also be urged back to life, transforming us into more active, curious, alert readers of reality.”
-George Saunders, A Swim in the Pond in the Rain
*susceptible (adj.)—likely or liable to be influenced or harmed by a particular thing
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