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Here are the assignments for this cycle. As you now realize, this is a six week course, meaning that there are often only one week in each cycle. Please do not get behind because the assignments build on one another. The assignments are generally broken up into three types: Text and Reading assignments (for which there MAY be follow-up reflections or activities), topical discussions that you will be asked to participate in, and some activities that will help you better understand the story invention process and its relevance to teaching and learning.

Finish reading Storyproof book and take the self-check that covers the entire book. This is a self graded quiz. When you are done post in the Drop Box in Canvas a reflection as to how well you did. Which questions you missed, which ones were a surprise, what you learned form taking the quiz, etc.

It is expected that his should take about 2.0 hrs to complete

Read Edward Branigan’s Branigan’s definition of story as synthesized from his book: Narrative Comprehension in Film. Hopefully, the discussion due this cycle will be influenced by whatever you glean out of these readings.

It is expected that this should take about 2.0 hrs to complete

There is a new discussion board set up in Canvas. This time, based on the new information you have gleaned form the readings on story invention and previous discussions on the topic, post on the board your personal definition as modified by your more current readings (or not).

This should take about an 1.0 hr to complete

1. To continue on our journey into story creation, this week you are being asked to evaluate a series of meStories created by former video production students. Based on Baranigan’s four elements, indicate in the rating surveys that follows each one, your evaluation/assessment of each video and enter one or two sentences to indicate your rationale for each vote.
2. Along the same lines, you need to go back to your previous submission of your Fantastic Binomial and post in Canvas in the Drop Box a short paragraph indicating how your new /updated definition affects the way you wrote your narrative.
   

   These should take about 2.0 hrs to complete

3. To help you understand some more about the visual concepts of story, you are to write out a story based on a series of paintings. Place your write up in the drop box on Canvas.
   
   Without cheating (looking it up on the ‘cheat sheet’ provided) see if you can get a sense of the story line that is being told by this medium. The goal is to demonstrate that there are many ways to tell stories: telling, text, video/film/ painting, dancing, pantomime, poetry… Hopefully, this well help you understand that a story is not a ‘thing’ but a structure, framework, or construct that is modifiable as to how it relays information and to help people recall what they are being communicated.

   This should take about 1.0-2.0 hrs to complete

Week one we introduced the final project . Spend some time this week relating any new ideas you have for your final story. You are encouraged not to wait until the last week to organize it.

These should take about 1.0-2.0 hrs to complete

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