Wednesday, November 26, 2008

November 26, 2008 presentations

GREAT job everyone!
for those who missed it ... you did indeed miss it

YES you can bring your daemon to class!!
revisit Plato's Allegory of the Cave in light of Pullman

Taylor -- All the Skins of a Life
Molly the ball python
add/remove skin
JW Waterhouse
Keats: Le Belle Dame sans Merci
the animal and the human/ the wild and the civilized
wholeness

Hannah -- The Portal between Adulthood and Childhood
Carroll childlike /Dodson adult
puer aeternus
Peter Pan

Sadie -- Too curious?
Psyche, Bluebeard - desire that is dangerous AND essential

Jesse -- Illustrations
something we can’t do with words
Alice in Sunderland, pp 79 and 135
variations in Beast, Puss in Boots, Rumplestilskin
Lyra’s alethiometer
Picasso -- Gertrude Stein's portrait “it will...”
Calvino: The Castle of Crossed Destinies -- mute, Tarot cards

Ronnie -- The Power of Literacy
Greenblatt: Marvelous Possessions
Columbus and indigenous peoples
Frederick Douglass “the pathway from slavery to freedom”
Knowledge is Power
Lyra’s sacrifice -- what is lost, what is gained
the many different forms of literacy

John
-- Transformation
surrounding ourselves with art
suspension of disbeliefs
Henry V opening soliloquoy
O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend
The brightest heaven of invention,
A kingdom for a stage, princes to act
And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!
The Second Shepherd’s Pageant
Linfield Theatre Rm 125
Dec 3
7-9

plus

Raquel’s Recital
Howard Hall
Dec 6
7:30 pm

Ben -- Cannibalism
Tracy Willard -- Tales of the Border -- stepmothers
Margaret VanDyke “Horrid Warnings”
cf theme of resurrection
jack and tom thumb offer themselves to be eaten when they are hungry
the apple as evil, as a weapon -- YET “keeps the doctor away”
eat the body and drink the blood
the unconscious learns from the stories

Kathleen -- The Slanted Truth
all these questions and no answers
Emily Dickinson “dazzle gradually”
"...because truth is such a rarity today, it SHOULD be in children’s lit..."
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant---
Success in Cirrcuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth's superb surprise
As Lightening to the Children eased
With explanation kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind---
Jill -- John Lennon
Lucy in the Sky + I Am the Walrus
dreams, shadows, mirror images
Revolution #9 and Revolution #9 Dream
layers
1964-65 A Spaniard In The Works and In His Own Write
Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll
Lear: The Owl and the Pussycat
The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea
In a beautiful pea green boat,
They took some honey, and plenty of money,
Wrapped up in a five pound note.
...They dined on mince, and slices of quince,
Which they ate with a runcible spoon;
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon,
The moon,
The moon,
They danced by the light of the moon.

John Cage
Jabberwocky "this nonsense reminds me of something..."

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