In class today we talked about narratives.  While you each blogged about your understandings and experiences of narratives, below is the list that we came up with during discussion after the in-class writing.

  • Narratives tell a story.
  • Narratives include events, dates, people, and ideas.
  • Narratives can be in many forms including poetry, prose, dance, theater, etc.
  • Narratives convey a message to the reader or viewer.
  • Narratives include movies (and we listed some movies including Scary Movie and Forrest Gump).
  • Narratives often include multiple events or interrelated events.
  • Imitation is a factor that is important to narrative.
  • Narratives help form our views of the world; the example from class was that if we’ve never been to Europe we may build an opinion of Europe based on narratives we are familiar with.

We also talked about samples of literacy narratives.  Some that we came up with included:

  • Book-It where students are rewarded with free pizza for reading.
  • Ohio Reads where high school students read to elementary students.
  • Parents or guardians who may have paid/rewarded us as children for good grades/reading/etc.
  • Scholarships for college.
  • Summer reading programs at local libraries.