Week 9  Representing Speech and Thought; First and Third Person Narratives

9.1 Direct and Indirect Discourse;  First and Third Person Narratives

Agenda

a. Listen to the Breeze/PowerPoint introduction to this week's work.

b. Review/print out the sheet on which I've placed all of the discourse examples from recast versions of Melanie's Science Museum story that appear in the PowerPoint intro.   Discourse Examples

c.. Read Toolan "Recording Speech and Thought" on Electronic Reserves.    Reading Toolan

d. Post your questions, observations, and understandings to the Language Concepts discussion, and respond to two other posts.

c. Review the sheet of examples from

9.2  Applying Language Concepts to Literature:  First and Third Person Narratives in Doyle

Agenda

a. Reread Chapter 9, pages 40 and 41 and Chapter 10.     Reading Doyle

b. Listen to the audio files for these chapters.   What is the effect, for you, of the shift from first to third person?

c. Using worksheet 9.2, recast any small portion of Doyle's story into the third person.  Worksheet 9.2

d. Doyle's most recent novel, Paula Spencer, tells Paula's story from a vantage point ten years later, entirely in the third person.  Read the selection from p. 136 (bottom) to 141 top, and 164 to 166 (They shot him.).  (To be posted Tuesday 11/6), noting the effect on you, as a reader, of this shift in voice.     Reading Paula Spencer selections

e. Drawing on your reading experience and your worksheet, post your discoveries and understandings to the Doyle discussion and respond to two other posts.

9.3 Your Research

Research Journal Weeks 8 and 9--(Optional)  Post any further clarifications re. grammar that you followed out as you worked on analyzing narrative syntax or discourse, or other ideas about your ongoing work