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Story Pass 4

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Online Assignment 6  Review of “The Journey to Red Water”

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Story Pass Three

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Road Trip to New York City 
See what happens when 5 friends do a road trip to New York City and love smacks a reluctant 30 year old right between the eyes. 

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 ”Take out your pencils and scantrons.”
If there is a dreaded sentence in any student’s vernacular this one should be in the top five. Another would be the phrase Pop Quiz.  If this brought back memories of feelings of anxiety for you, you can relate to your students fear when you utter these words. But [...]

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 The Importance of Bruner’s Referentiality
(Or lack of) in the film The Princess Bride
“Scaling the Cliffs of Insanity, Battling Rodents of Unusual Size, Facing torture in the Pit of Despair.
- True love has never been a snap” (Wiki Quote, 2007)
Film Summary
The Princess Bride (1987) is based on the book by the same name published in [...]

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“Take out your pencils and scantrons.”
If there is a dreaded sentence in any student’s vernacular this one should be in the top five. Another would be the phrase Pop Quiz.  If this brought back memories of feelings of anxiety for you, you can relate to your students fear when you utter these words. But how [...]

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What types of stories are you gong to tell? 
The story that I will use throughout this process is an instructional story. This instructional piece will be one piece of an overall training unit for community college faculty that informs them about alternative assessment strategies for the classroom. 
In which genre will I be writing? 
I will be [...]

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The first assignment for my course asks class participants to include the following information:

A general introduction; academic background and any interesting details
 My interest in narrative and storytelling
My interest in media

Well, I’m pretty boring, I think, but I have a wicked sense of humor. My average day either begins or ends with the gym. I’m on a [...]

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