During the first ten minutes of class, write your summary of Jonathan Gottschall’s The Storytelling Animal, The Future of Story in your notebook. Also, write about the other ways that you experience story. Think about some of the examples that Gottschall mentions in this chapter. Before our next class, post your summary/discussion as a comment on this post.

During the first ten minutes of class, write your summary of Jonathan Gottschall’s The Storytelling Animal, Life Stories in your notebooks. Before our class on Monday, post a comment of your typewritten summary.

During the first ten minutes of class, write your summary of Jonathan Gottschall’s The Storytelling Animal, Ink People Change the World. Also, what “ink people” do you think of as changing the world? Before our next class, post your summary as a comment to this blog post.

During the first ten minutes of class, write your summary of Jonathan Gottschall’s The Storytelling Animal, The Moral of the Story. Also, write about how he incorporates the ideas of others into his argument. Does he mention their names? Does he state the title of their work? Does he use quotations? Before our next class, post your typewritten version of your summary as a comment to this post.

During the first ten minutes of today’s class, write your summary of Jonathan Gottschall’s The Storytelling Animal, The Mind is a Storyteller in your notebook. Before Wednesday’s class, add your summary as a comment on this blog post.

During the first ten minutes of class, write a summary of your reading from Jonathan Gottschall’s The Storytelling Animal, Night Story. Before our next meeting, post your summary as a comment to this blog post.

During the first ten minutes of class, write a summary of your reading from Jonathan Gottschall’s The Storytelling Animal, Hell is Story-Friendly in your notebooks. Pay attention to the idea of “universal grammar” and how it applies to storytelling. Before our next class, type up your summary and post it here as a comment.

During the first ten minutes of class, summarize your reading from Jonathan Gottschall’s The Storytelling Animal, “The Witchery of Story” chapter. Also, what kinds of stories do you like to hear? What kinds of stories do you like to tell? Think about the many kinds of examples that Gottschall mentions. Before our next class, type up your summary and post it as a comment to this blog post.

During the first ten minutes of class, write your summary of the Exploration chapter from John Medina’s Brain Rules. Before our next class, type up your summary and post it here as a comment to this blog post. Remember, this is the last chapter that we will read as a class in this book. Next Monday, we will begin reading Jonathan Gottschall’s The Storytelling Animal.

During class today, spend the first ten minutes writing your summary of John Medina’s Brain Rules, Gender chapter. Before our next meeting, type up your handwritten summaries and post them as a comment to this post. Remember, moving forward this semester, there are no more make-up opportunities for the in-class writing assignments.