Profesor Flaco presents:

Creating Narrative Essays Through Photography

Who was here before you?
Who came in after you?
Why did you chose your seat?
Quin soy yo?

Willie J. Young II (Profesor
Flaco)
Second semester graduate
student
Teaching Assistant
Bachelors of Arts in English
Language & Literature
Minors: Professional Writing &
Spanish
Hiphopologisticismist
Nightlife Photographer
www.facebook.com/hemphillian

Teaching Philosophy
Ojo
Teach what you love and
love what you teach (N.
Haydock).

We need to keep a sense of
play in teaching. Teaching
is an improvisers art (E.
Showalter).
Performance
Ms y ms, mucho ms
Writing with a topic close to
students experiences and
substituting popular culture or
media for literary texts motivates
students writings from an already
knowledgeable basis (John
Timbur).

Writers use language to recreate
reality (James Critton).
Why use photos?
Enhances
memorization of
information
My Ideal Classroom

Ingl 3201
All levels of proficiency
28 Students
Split desks
Functional technology
Air conditioned
No podium

An account of a series of events

It could be real or imaginary (or both)

An organized sequence (or not)

A narration has:
Actions
Details
Climax (when the events se explotan!!!)
Resolution (resolves the existing problem)
What is a narrative?
Makes a point

Expresses action & detail

Presents a conflict and creates tension

Shows a sequence of events

Uses vivid details that advances the story and the most important point

Uses dialogue

Tells a story from a particular point of view
What does a narrative do?
Makes a point

Tells the readers about
an event or series of
events

Describes the
significance of events

Makes an observation

Presents new
information

Expresses action & detail
Details of the event

Like a camera lens

For the readers to see
and feel the experience

Physical description
Vivid Details
Describes:
Types of details
The scene
The actions
Participants
Feelings of the writer

The Six Senses
Sight
Smell
Taste
Sound
Feel
Extra-sensory perception
Conflict
Presents a conflict
Struggle
Question
Problem
Between people or an
external force
The law
Morals
Nature
Tension
The tension is the
created suspense as
the story unravels.

The point before the
climax.
Sequence of Events
Chronological Order
(maybe)
Sequence of Events
Flashback

Scenes of the past

Organized

Unorganized

Foreshadowing
Foreshadowing
Insinuation of events that
will transpire in the future


Quick Activity
Put these photos in chronological order:
What actually happened
Pulp Fiction
Climax
Dialogue
Basically:

Conversation
Narrator & Character
Character & Character
Narrator & Reader
Point of View
First Person
Personal Tone
I = Intimate

Third Person
Distanced from the
action
The/ He/ She/ It

Activity (15 minutes)
Directions
Choose a frame of time (ex. 1 year, 3 days, 7 months)
1
st
Person Point of View (the item)
Tell its story from its creation to the current picture
REMEMBER:
Actions
Details
Sequence of Events
Climax
Resolution
Questions?
Comments?
So what can you do with
narrative photography?
Pulp Fiction

Miss Peregrines
Home For Peculiar
Children

Childrens Literature
The End
Gracias a todos!