EDUC 3308 O’Connor Instructions
Here are the guidelines for the O'Connor narrative, due on October. Have fun
with it; it may make you think about a few things. Hope so.
You are to prepare a short reflective narrative based on your reading. You should
draw connections between O’Connor’s depiction of human nature within place
and implications for enriching your own pedagogy. Approximately 3-4 pages; 12
point font, use citations from the stories.
Consider the following points to help you with your narrative. You might even
structure your paper according to the bullets, making it 5 paragraphs:
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What does it mean to you to have a “sense of place” or “attachment to
place”?
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What plot conventions (symbolism, characterization, irony, etc.) does
O’Connor use to make her stories powerful?
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What “evidences” of place do you see in the story? Or, what “textures of
place” do you see?
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What cultural dispositions can you identify in the story (characteristics that
traditionally or even stereotypically pertain to a particular culture)?
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What implications can be made from this assignment (not the story itself,
but from reading a place intensive work of fiction such as O’Connor’s) toward
curriculum & pedagogy? (Hint: even if your response is “not a doggone thing,”
please be creative and try to think of something)