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:
- separation
- initiation
- 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 againeuphemism: stepping over the threshold is key to the storyFOREST:- 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:
'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...
My favorite fairy tale would have to be Donkeyskin by Charles Perrault. Although the beginning is horrifying because of an almost case of incest, it redeems itself in the end. I have always loved to imagine her dresses at the end, 
one the color of the sky, one the color of the moon, and one more splendid than the star of night. They are of unimaginable beauty especially to a young me. To imagine the color is 
not the hard part, but to imagine making fabric that color is intense. I do so enjoy the stark irony too that the dresses that the godmother suggests to spare herself from her father are the same that in the end help her get her man. I also loved that she was a great baker, because although I cannot cook at all, I love to eat. 
