The homework for this week is to interview three different people about the events that changed the world for them. What event let them know that life and the world were more fragile than they realized?
It would be especially good to interview people of different ages. Little kids count! In fact it would be very good to interview someone younger than you are.
You can interview them using the sheet I handed out in class today, or you can use this video to both do the exercise together. You’ll do this with three in all in the widest age range you can manage. Each time you do the exercise, I want you to write about a different incident that changed your view of life or the world in a different way. (How many are there??) While you are participating in collecting these stories from others, you’ll end up with an interesting series of your own stories of these moments.
Start by asking your writing partner to draw an X on a piece of paper and think of one of the local, national or global events that changed the way they saw the world. This can be a big event or something other people could consider small. Ask them to write the name of that event at the top of the X page.
Then ask them to picture where they were when news of this event happened, ask them to draw an X on a blank sheet of paper, tell them they can write anywhere on or across the X and then let the video play – both of you should be doing this exercise at the same time. If you have some friends family members you like enough, this could be an amazing activity to do as a small group and then read the results out loud to each other.
You will need to do four 3-minute drawings for each of the three stories other people have written. Do them on 4X6 index cards. Change the ‘camera angle’ in each drawing. Include entire bodies in at least two of the four cards.
Invite others to contribute their drawings. Show them the basic Brunetti style.
For ultra extra credit, write down what they say when you ask them to draw. Direct quotes on index cards are most appreciated. Ask them to tell you a story about when they quit drawing and why.
For a GOOD TIME, and to see them get giddy, Have them draw a comb, a giraffe and the Statue of Liberty with their eyes closed.
Any paper is good to work on including grocery bags, and you can use any kind of mark maker.
Remember that by doing this you are creating historical documents of several kinds from first hand recollection of national events to a 2016 sampling of a variety of handwriting captured by this exercise.
Keep everything they don’t want and glue it into your compbook. If the paper is too big, fold it and glue just one side.
Show people how to do the things we’ve done together this semester and try to get them to draw. (Scribble monsters? Face Jam anyone?)
It’s fun and it’s so much better than small talk.
We’ll make a comic strip using one of these stories when we are together again next week.
This Thanksgiving I want you to know I am thankful for you, dear students!
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