1. Identifying Narratives: Yours Mine and Ours
Chapter 23 Dramatism of Kenneth Burke and Chapter 24 Narrative Paradigm of Walter Fischer
By Amber Dyson and Sadzid Grahic

2. Personal Outcomes for Workshop
Sadzid
Introduce activities better so that they are easily understandable.
Balance of communicating with partner so that there is a more fluid rhythm when presenting/speaking.
Amber
Make sure the PowerPoint is readable and easy to see for the audience.
Make sure that partner and I both equally share the presentation

3. Activity 1
Welcome Everyone, please put away all electronics. We would like you to remain silent during this activity, and listen attentively. Please close your eyes, and listen to the audio.

4. Lets Discuss… Identify the name of the narrative that you heard?
Did you recognize the story right away, and What elements within the story did you recognize? Give an example of when

5. Coherence and Fidelity: Why is the Creation Narrative relevant to our topic
Identification
The common ground between speaker and audience
Coherence
Consistency
Does the story flow together
Fidelity
Audience identifies the humane values the story embodies
Sparks something within audience member

6. Narratives are everywhere…
Dramatism theory and Narrative Paradigm
Burke and Fischer
Dramatism Theory
“Life isn’t a drama; life is a drama”
Narratives are performed and purposeful
Dramatistic pentad tool for analyzing narratives
Narrative paradigm
“people are story telling animals”
we use compelling story telling to deliver messages to people
We judge those stories by their
Coherence and Fidelity

7. Burke’s Pentad of Dramatism: Assessing the motives of the speaker and Identification
More common ground between audience and speaker equals a story that will hold substance to the audience

8. Sharing Narratives
“We are narrative beings who “experience and comprehend life as a series of ongoing narratives as conflicts, characters, beginnings, middles, and ends” (pg.303)

9. The Mines: Z’s Narrative
Video made for digital narratives class
Directions
Watch the video, and think about these questions
Is the narrative successful in its purpose
What elements make it successful?
Do you connect with the narrative?

10. Pentad Elements
Act
 To show how a love can be lost, but will never be forgotten.
Scene
 Germany, Bosnia and Bosnian & Serbian War.
Agent
 Sadzid Grahic a.k.a “Z”, my mothers son, Mama’s Boy.
Agency
 Music, pictures of father, mother and I and my narration.
Purpose
 To show appreciation for my mom and everything that she has done and to show that I understand that she has lost way more than I have.

11. Mines: Amber’s Narrative
Speech
Given at Window’s on Stritch
Telling my story to help raise scholarship money for other students
Directions
Read the speech, and think about these questions
Is the narrative successful in its purpose
What elements make it successful?
Do you connect with the narrative?

12. Pentad Elements
Act
Scene
Agent
Agency
Purpose

13. Activity 2: Identifying Narratives

14. Yours… story tellers among us
Directions
You will be analyzing two different narratives. Once you have read and listened to each narrative, you should identify the parts of the pentad that are present in each narrative.
Act
Who
Scene
Where and When?
Agent
What
Agency
What did they use and how?
Purpose
Why

15. Small Group Discussion
Share the 5 elements you found within the narrative?
Share what you thought about the coherence of the story? Did it “hang together”?
Share what resonated with you and why?