Unit 1 What Makes It Believable Active versus

Unit 1 What Makes It Believable?

Active versus Passive Reading Critical reading is a more ACTIVE way of reading. It is a deeper and more complex engagement with a text. Critical reading is a process of analyzing, interpreting and, sometimes, evaluating. When we read critically, we use our critical thinking skills to QUESTION both the text and our own reading of it. Different disciplines may have distinctive modes of critical reading (scientific, philosophical, literary, etc).

What’s Important to Note in Critical Reading?

Note Taking: What To Record DO NOT TRY TO REMEMBER EVERY EVENT, CHARACTER, ETC Instead, ask yourself: ● Which characters are mentioned a lot, appear repeatedly, or speak the most? ● Are there certain ideas, worries, concepts, etc that are mentioned multiple times? ● What moments does the text spend a lot of time/space covering? ● Reviewing class discussions, what things do a lot of people latch onto?

Responding to Peers ● Frame comments as a response to something a peer wrote. ○ It’s best to include the person’s name. ● Be clear when changing the subject or moving to another point. ● Make your responses explicit ○ ○ “My point is…” “What I’m trying to say…. ” ● Remember that discussions are informal like class participation.

How Understanding Individual Perspective Links to What is Believable? Paper

Q&A on the Believable Project Am I trying to persuade the reader that it is a myth? Do I just report on what the myth is? Do I have to write about one of the topics on the google doc? https: //docs. google. com/document/d/1 guas. ZFjt_Ibk. Pm. E 7 Ug 4 Ekj 6 KKET_Kn 8 1 d. SIv 3 b 6 ew 9 s/edit? usp=sharing

What is POV? Point of view (POV) is what the character or narrator telling the story can see (his or her perspective). The author chooses “who” is to tell the story by determining the point of view. Depending on who the narrator is, he/she will be standing at one point and seeing the action. This viewpoint will give the narrator a partial or whole view of events as they happen. Many stories have the protagonist telling the story, while in others, the narrator may be another character or an outside viewer, a narrator who is not in the story at all. The narrator should not be confused with the author, who is the writer of the story and whose opinions may not be those written into the narrative. POV provides the context and backstory readers need to understand the scene, and helps the audience best see characters and interpret the material. An omniscient narrator knows everything, but a firstperson narrator is limited to just those experiences.

Why Does Critical Reading Need POV? When perspective (another term for POV) is overlooked in social research, researchers may draw misleading conclusions. Perspective is the way individuals see the world. It comes from their personal point of view and is shaped by life experiences, values, their current state of mind, the assumptions they bring into a situation, etc. Perspective-taking is about being able to understand a situation from the point of view of another person. The nice thing about this skill is in how it allows us to better explore a situation that happened in the past — or it can support you in making an upcoming decision.

What Makes It Believable? Draft Due: Friday, Sept 4 by 11: 59 pm Assignment type: Dropbox Worth: 35 points Graded: based on completing all requirements Draft grade is no reflection or indication of grade on the final project.

Types of Plagiarism Intentional ● Using same work from another place ● Using another person’s work ● Buying or having someone else write it Unintentional ● Dropped quotes ● Bad paraphrasing ● Missing citations

Why is Cheating/Plagiarism a Bad Thing? ● Getting credit for work you didn’t do ● Ethical dilemma of unfair to others ● Illegal, such as violating copyright

Vocabulary for Novels Novel: chapters, prose, book length novella: short novel but longer than a short story Narrator : person telling the story omniscient narrator : "all seeing eye" first person narrator : main character tells story, look for "I, " single (or limited) perspective unreliable narrator : one sided viewpoint, biased, may or may not be the truth Character : person or figure in the story Climax: high point in the story or the plot, possibly the turning point protagonist : the hero or good person, often the narrator or the POV for the story antagonist : anti-hero, the bad guy, opposite the protagonist

Vocabulary for Poems speaker: perspective in a poem; narrator listener: audience (reader or other people in the poem) images: concrete to represent abstract thoughts, especially when repeating rhyme: ends of words or several syllables at end are the same assonance/consonance : repeating consonants or vowel sounds meter: think rhythm--syllables form: arrangement lineation: line breaks stanza : sections juxtaposition : unexpected similarity between unlike things allegory: extended metaphor providing two readings, often religious