Cornell Notes

1. Jenkins
Eng 12CP
DUE: 30 October2015
Cornell Notes Focus Questions
“One Story” Chapter
How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas Foster
Instructions: Your Cornell notes should ultimately address the following questions and concepts articulated below.
That said, you are not just merely sticking to this information alone and your notes should NOT merely be a list of
these questions with answers. You are to use your notes on the entire chapter to address the main idea points
presented here.
1. What is the one story theory? Explain in depth.
2. Why do writers keeptelling the same story over and over? Why do readers keepreading
stories if it is merely the same story over and over?
3. Define, offer examples, and explain intertextuality in terms of the theory of one story.
4. Define archetypes and explain their roles & functions in the theory of one story.
KEY VOCABULARY: One Story Theory, intertextuality, parody archetypes
FOCUS CORRECTIONAL AREAS
________/ 30 Total Points
MRS J YOU TOTAL
PTS
10 10 All main idea questions prompted (above) are fully addressed/answered.
5 5 Each key vocabulary word appears highlighted/underlined and accurately defined.
4 5 Key Concepts include a record ofat least 8-10 key ideas expressed directly in the
text (should appear as a balance between direct quoting and key phrases/points).
5 5 Recorded Notes include thorough and accurate responses to the Key Concepts
section by specifically referencing details from the text.
5 5 Summary fully and accurately sums up, in 6-8 sentences minimum, at least 5 main
ideas expressed in the chapter.
Requirements:
❏ MLA format; types (unless otherwise approved)
❏ Cornell notes format (must include Key Concepts, Recorded Notes, & Summary sections)
❏ Chapter title in quotation marks and book title in italics/underline
❏ Notes appear in “short-hand” techniques are used in that bullet points, indentation,
highlighting/bolding/underlining appear to organize the chapter in notation form

2. Jenkins
Eng 12CP
John Blackman
Mrs. Jenkins
English 12CP
30 October 2015
“One Story”
KEY CONCEPTS RECORDED NOTES
The One Story Theory
Why do the writers repeat the same
story?
Do writers know this?
Readers keep reading
Intertextuality
Parody
Archetypes
-That every story is the same but changed in the author's ideas
It's the only thing the writers know, back from the dead white guys
And now it's just a second nature to them and us.
● “behind all these specific interpretive activities, a truth that
informs and drives the creation of novels and plays and
stories and poems and essays and memoirs even when (as is
usually the case) writers aren't aware of it.”
Yes
● they know from all the ones before them wrote one story
theme
● John Barth discussed about a egyptian papyrus know that
there wasn't any more stories to tell or create cause there
isn't any more
No
● They don't know that they are doing it in till shown or sit
down and see it themselves
● that its just there in the life and that it's been around since
mankind could tell a story to each other
Human population keep reading cause it the only available writings
or it's the only thing they know
- The relationship between texts, especially literary ones.
taking a scene from a book, show or movie and putting it in
another book, show, or movie
Examples: Breaking Bad-Pulp Fiction, Nite Owl-Batman
One Story- It follows the theme from hero saving some one to
him/her facing death
When they take in and make fun of something that has happened in
the everyday life
The original pattern of the one story theory

3. Jenkins
Eng 12CP
Examples: Disney movies, Lord of Rings, Star Wars
SUMMARY: In the chapter “One Story” the author Thomas Foster talks about the one story theory and
how we use it in all our lives. He talks about how we can see it in everything that we watch to the books
we read. And that this theory of one story has came back from later years to the dead old white guys even
dating back to ancient Egypt. That even authors try to play it off that it's their own piece of work, but it
shows that its not its the same from the next guy to Shakespeare. we now know there is types of textual
subjects from intertextuality, allusion, parodias, and archetype. All things come together to make up the
theory we all call now is the One Story Theory.