Friday, September 12

is for ever after, happily that is.

GROUPS:

• graphic novel of the Wizard of Oz
• prepared in secret
• must mix up reality and relevant materials
• historical and real life events with the myth
• historic person and the myth
• forms of technology (video cameras, you-tube, etc)
• how it connects with other things from the class
• myth and displacement addressed
• don't tell things that are obvious

skipping rope songs

we are not sentimentalizing children "they are awrnry little bastards" ~Dr. Sexson

not what it means, what it is

'not what does this poem mean, but how does this poem mean?'

at the end of The Odyssey, they don't make love, all they do is tell each other stories, it is better than sex, and because they are so happy to be together, Athena makes the night longer for them

Cupid and Psyche= East of the Sun, where they ride on a polar bear, like in The Golden Compass
you enjoy watching movies and reading, because you talk about it

the greatest moral of all: "the story is the story"

Glenda to Dorothy: "Well, D, what have you learned?' 'I've learned that I don't have to go any farther than my own backyard'

"Once upon a time, there was a little girl who stayed in her own backyard..." WoO

the only way to discover and learn, is to leave and live it

The Alchemist: the treasure is always at home, but you don't know it until you leave

3 levels of a journey:

1. separation
2. initiation
3. return (transformation)

they always do what they are told not to do, THERE is the story, this also brings the moral

that is how, you do the bad thing and then learn

Hoodwinked
The Frog Prince, Continued

phone call to adventure... the story is in motion and you can't go back again


euphemism: stepping over the threshold is key to the story
FOREST:

• the zone of the unknown
• where the hero/heroine are tested by the evil
• usually occupied by evil/dark forces

"Where are you going? Where have you been?" ~Joyce Carrol Oats

Charles Schmid

DREAMS:

Margaret Atwood: 'it isn't our outer life, it's our inner life'

the dream world is the fairy tale world, and who wouldn't want to go there?

They are 'the royal road to the unconscious' ~Freud


'FT's are as illusive as dreams' you cannot analyze them


Erich Fromm: Interpretation of Red:

• sensuous and sexual lives
• bottle- virginity

Aarne-Thompson classification system

children have an obsession with eating

"piper's at the gates of dawn' ~Pan from Wind in the Willows

Haphazard rules: no 2 the same, you must be able to distinguish them from one another

Important Birds:

• Cinderella
• The Birds
• Mockingbird
• Snow White and the wishing well
• The Juniper Tree

'When you are a child, you think as a child thinks, when you are an adult you must learn to think as a child.' ~Jesus

same plane, different place

LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD:

• "This class is intended to remove the cloud that blinds us from sight" ~Dr. Sexson
• ears, eyes, teeth
• things are under the bed and in the closet
• the difference in between the Grimm version and the Perrault version is in the end. One has a moral, one has gruesome death
• which is preferred?
• Moral smoral...