a plea for help
hi all:
ok, so i'm taking dr tolson's "storytelling" class and one of the assignments is telling a five minute story to the class (go figure). anyway, dr t assigned each of us an object to tell a story about...mine is "pencil." now, the obvious phallic image aside, i am kind of stumped. i googled "pencil story" and i found some ideas but most of these stories are for little kids going to school...parables, etc that are kind of cheesy. does anyone have any ideas or have you heard of a pencil story or poem? i will totally credit you and give you full props...that is, if you want me to :-)
i did come across a blog that featured a youtube video of a guy who could break pencils with his butt cheeks...but i don't know if i am creative enough to craft a story out of that but i must say it was an impressive (if not scary) sight.
ok, so i'm taking dr tolson's "storytelling" class and one of the assignments is telling a five minute story to the class (go figure). anyway, dr t assigned each of us an object to tell a story about...mine is "pencil." now, the obvious phallic image aside, i am kind of stumped. i googled "pencil story" and i found some ideas but most of these stories are for little kids going to school...parables, etc that are kind of cheesy. does anyone have any ideas or have you heard of a pencil story or poem? i will totally credit you and give you full props...that is, if you want me to :-)
i did come across a blog that featured a youtube video of a guy who could break pencils with his butt cheeks...but i don't know if i am creative enough to craft a story out of that but i must say it was an impressive (if not scary) sight.
posted by commodifiedqueer @ 7:32 AM
5 Comments:
At 9:32 AM,
William said…
Read Dennis Baron's essay "From Pencils to Pixels" and tell a "story" of how the pencil revolutionized education ... adding the eraser changed everything, as his essay suggests, and teachers were PISSED about it. At ISU, back in the day, students were allowed TWO mispelled words per term, and they could not erase or mark through. When I tell this story to my students, they freak out at what it would mean to their writing processes ... it can be a fun story to tell ... but a little nerdy, I suppose ...
At 10:19 AM,
commodifiedqueer said…
thanks for the great tip will...it's not nerdy at all.
At 5:16 PM,
Lori O said…
I almost stabbed Marion Woodall with a pencil in fourth grade...in the middle of class...she got a full hour of detention & I only got 1/2 hour.
And MAYBE the eraser changed everything, but all I remember is the way those big, fat pencil erasers ate into the flimsy lined paper we practiced cursive on in second grade...all they really did was smear the lead around. Use one of them and everyone knows you made a correction cause there's a big honkin' hole in your paper.
You could tell a "multimedia" story and pass out those big ass pencils and ask the class to write their own damn stories for the fridge.
My stories suck, but Will's tip is promising...
At 6:30 PM,
commodifiedqueer said…
lori, i love your pencil story and reading your comment made me remember how those stupid erasers did make a damn hole in the paper letting everyone...including your teacher know that you "corrected" something. however, i really like your last suggestion the best!
At 7:09 AM,
mountainmomma said…
And let's not forget the pencils and erasers that get shoved into orrafices by children. My brother, when he was very small, got ahold of a pencil and stuck it eraser side up, into his nose. A gross story, but there you are.
Good luck,
Jess
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