One Story Theory Cornell Notes

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Eng 12CP
DUE: ________
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 All main idea questions prompted (above) are fully addressed/answered.
5 Each key vocabulary word appears highlighted/underlined and accurately defined.
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 Recorded Notes include thorough and accurate responses to the Key Concepts
section by specifically referencing details from the text.
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. Post
Eng 12CP
Sydney Post
Mrs. Jenkins
English 12CP
29 October 2015
“One Story”
KEY CONCEPTS RECORDED NOTES
1. What is the One Story Theory?
2. Why do writers tell the same
story?
3. What is Intertextuality?
4. What are Archetypes?
5. Who is Carl Jung?
6. What are the three types of
Archetypes? Give one example of
each.
7. Who is Joseph Campbell?
8. What is a monomyth?
1. A story that is repeated without originality
Has a generic plot, same old, same old
2. It’s hard to be original, all the stories are based off one another.
“Everywhere you look, the ground is already camped on.”
“Only Shakespeare and Joyce coin words, but even they mostly
use the same ones as the rest of us.”
Its nearly impossible to be original
3. Stories that are borrowed from another story
Not having new ideas
Referencing something else, parodies- humorous, allusions, etc.
Examples- Breaking Bad copying a scene from Pulp Fiction
4. Means “original model,” which other things are copied,
Greek roots:”Archein”- original
“Typos”- pattern, model
5. A psychologist, considered to be “the Godfather,”
Worked with Sigmund Freud,
Psychoanalytic literary criticism
6. “Ego Types”- The Hero
“Soul Types”- The Lover
“Self Types”- The Sage
7. American mythologist, wrote A Hero with a Thousand Faces.
had a part with the Star Wars origin
8. Mono= one, Myth= story,
All stories and characters play out the same way, all generic,
Hero- “someone who gives their life for a better cause”- not
because of their looks, muscle, or any other stereotypical hero
quality

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Eng 12CP
SUMMARY: In the chapter “One Story,” Thomas Foster describes what to look for while reading
literature. He explains that reading includes being able to read deeper into the text and take out a critical
meaning, and how that is crucial in order to actually understand/ comprehend what you’re reading.
Thomas Foster also explains that it is impossible for writers to be original with the literature that they’re
writing anymore. Stories and literature tend to borrow other ideas from stories and use them in their own,
usually writers reference other pieces of literature in their writings. When Thomas Foster is telling about
“How to Read like a Professor,” he gives strategies for looking at the literature in each chapter. At the end
of the book, a reader should fully understand what it is like to read like a professor and understand it in a
way that they didn't before.