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daybreak123
Registered User
(9/19/05 12:04 pm)
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intro & my class
hi! I'm Allison, a mom to a 5-month old baby, teacher, musician, museum receptionist, and lifelong lover of fairy tales!
I've recently been engaged to design a syllabus and teach a class for 7-8 graders about fairy tales! It's very exciting and it's coming together well, and will be greatly helped by the Sur La Lune website. It's a mainly online course and is designed to replace a traditional 5-day-a-week language arts class for gifted students, so I can have them do a lot of work and really dig deep.
Just wondering if anyone has done anything like this before - what resources you'd suggest - etc. I'll keep you posted as I work on this... it's really fun.
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kristiw
Unregistered User
(9/19/05 12:13 pm)
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just a thought
It would be interesting to do something on how different authors
in different time periods have found different messages in the same
story: how the flexibility and utility of fairytales accounts for
their persistence. There's an essay called Shakespeare in the Bush,
(www.cc.gatech.edu/people/..._Bush.htm)
which considers how a story might make perfect sense to one culture in a way that another culture never considered. (Fair enough, Hamlet isn't a fairytale, but what with ghosts and wicked uncles you could make a case for it.)
The class sounds neat; good luck!
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kristiw
Unregistered User
(9/19/05 12:14 pm)
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sorry
Oops, bad link:
www.cc.gatech.edu/people/...n_Bush.htm
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EleriJilly
Registered User
(9/21/05 1:04 pm)
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Re: intro & my class
I just have to say, I LOVED READING THIS!!! I was an anthro major at college and it was absolutely freakin' hillarious.
Eleri:lol
Edited by: EleriJilly at: 9/21/05 1:05 pm
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