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One of the themes in our class will be the role of narrative in development and learning. Please write up a brief story (2 – 4 pages, typed, double-spaced) from your experience as an adolescent, age 3-19.
It could be a story you thought of while doing the class readings. It could be triggered by your observations of other children or an event that was developmentally significant for you. In any case, I ask you to choose a ″middle story″ — a story about subject matter that is neither stale nor raw and unprocessed. In the write-up, imagine telling it to someone in our class.
You could be inspired by watching the 2015 Walt Disney movie “Inside Out.” It is an animated film directed by Pete Docter and Ronnie del Carmen. It follows the story of young Riley, who is uprooted from her Midwest life and moves to San Francisco. The film explores her emotions -Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust, and Sadness as they navigate her new life.
″Language is the greatest human resource for representing and structuring life events. And no language practice has more impact in this direction than storytelling. Storytelling, one of the earliest forms of communication with young children, is universal to all human cultures and a powerful means of socializing values and world views to children and other intimates″. Capps and Ochs, 1995