An autobiographical narrative can be about anytime that you experiences something or thought a certain way that made you have an epiphany. Sometimes you can think a certain way about a person and then once you hear about them or understand why they are the way that they are, your opinion of them completely changes. This would be an epiphany to write about but you don't just state the facts, you make it into a story. You can make it engaging and you can make a seemingly insignificant event into a meaningful life experience.
"As you generate and explore ideas, your goal is to develop a plot-a significant moment or insight arising out of contrariety-that you can develop with the storytelling strategies of open-form prose. If you are still searching for ideas, the following questions might help."
- Questions arising from your achievement of a new status
- Questions arising from challenges to your normal assumptions about life or from your failure to fit or fulfill others' expectations of you
- Questions arising from conflicts of values or failure to live up to values
Hi Hannah,
ReplyDeleteYou've been doing a great job at writing thorough and clear responses to the readings - thanks! Remember, though, that the point of these journal responses is to prepare you for class - to make sure you've done the reading and synthesized it by writing about it. That's why the assignment is to post them before class, and not after. So make sure you are writing your responses before class. (The time stamps on the blog give you away if you post it after class.) Just keep up the good work, but make sure you do these responses before class.
Thanks,
Rebecca