Reasha Sharma

Mr. White
AP English 12-P2
16 October 2015
Senior Project Outline
I.

II.

Introduction
A. Explain senior project - Boo Bash
1. Components
2. Event planning
B. Research
1. Effects of Storytelling
a) Importance
b) Messages
c) Construction of effective stories
2. Age Groups
a) Adults - Emotional/Mental
b) Children - Creativity/Development
3. Leadership
4. Scary stories - benefit to society
5. Gothic literature
Research
A. Effects of Storytelling
1. Importance
a) Stories were served as a tool for
growth of society.
b) They were a means of
expression before technology emerged.
c) People make connections with
stories.
d) Studies show different genders
tend to like different genres.
2. Messages that Stories Send
a) Stories create a picture in
peoples mind.

b) Opinions and reason come from

the stories people hear.
c) They have a moment of truth
which conveys the message of the story clearly.
3. Construction of Effective Stories
a) Effective storytellers enhance
their stories through the utilization of vocal inflection,
gestures, and movement to further engage their audience.
b) Authors try to steer clear of
predictability.
B. Age Groups
1. Adults
a) Most adults actually learn through
experience and interest, or rather the situation is absorbed more
than the subject.
b) Adults tend to only listen to those
they can relate and compare to.
c) If a character holds ones attention
long enough, they begin to develop an emotional attachment, what
narratologists call transportation
d) Stories that are more personal and
relatable are more compelling and memorable, therefore
remembered in the brain in the long term rather than facts stated
plainly with no part standing out.
e) Simple stories bring out an
empathetic response from humans, triggering certain
neurochemicals.
2. Teens

a) Young teens and adults have begun

to learn stories in a therapeutic aspect, in order to bring light to
forgotten values.
b) This expression helps teens to dwell
on their challenges and triumphs they have faced in the past,
present, and future.
c) Stories reveal universal truths about the
world. Through stories we see how very different people share the same life
experiences and how human nature can transcend culture.

d)
3. Children
a) An infant first begins to
communicate with their people through words, sounds, and
pictures, all elements of storytelling
b) Language and literacy development
begins in infancy by dialogue, which in turn helps develop skills to
read, and in the long run gets them through school and starts them
on the journey to become lifelong learners.
c) Expressing themselves through
pictures and stories allows a childs mind to develop creatively as
well as gives them ease in social situations.
d) Children begin to develop a creative
mindset as well as recognize patterns in stories and can therefore
predict the rest.
e) Those who are exposed to a variety
of stories are more advanced in vocabulary and syntax.
C. Leadership
1. The key to being a leader is narration because
narration helps a leader have a sense of organization, encompass the

message or change they wish to convey, establish credibility, communicate

with the people they lead, and transform dull information into a
compelling insight.
2. Strategic leaders can convey their visions through
telling a story, which promotes dialogue and communication as well as
gives a universal comparison in which everyone can understand.
D. Organizations/Businesses
1. By starting with the story, the direction and details
of the story can then be understood after the big picture is comprehended,
consequently allowing organizations to evolve and learn.
2. A teaching method which incorporates the use of
storytelling as well as leadership is the case study method in which a
problem is set up with background information and students are to find
solutions, encouraging active learning, social development, and different
perspectives, as well as give the students a chance to finish writing the end
of the story.
E. Horror Stories
1. Role in Society
a) Horror stories have become very
popular in the modern day due to, as many researchers believe, it
giving humans a way to fill in the blanks about the historical and
cultural parts of society that have been lost.
b) Many psychologists believe this
obsession of society of fear of becoming dinner to a carnivorous
predator and other unnatural features of horror stems from the idea
of feeling fear within a controlled setting.
c) Popular novels, including
Frankenstein and Dracula, give people a way to confront fears

safely through frightening yet familiar language, imagery, and

relatable characters.
2. Gothic Literature
a) The origin of the well known horror
of today stemmed from gothic literature, a genre which combined
horror and death with romance.
b) Popular novels of gothic literature
include most works of Edgar Allan Poe, Dracula by Bram Stoker,
and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
c) Events are held to celebrate and
appreciate works of gothic literature, such as the Lumous Gothic
Festival and the Drop Dead Festival, showing just as much how
gothic literature affects society
III.

Application
A. Restate Introduction
1. Resummarize Boo Bash
B. Restate Research
1. Each point briefly