Notes 4-21-08

“Hearthcake”

Sam is taken for blood tests, and they find out that he has cystic fibrosis. 

She thinks God is in the bathroom.

She refers to the story of Elijah from the Bible.

 

“Into Thin Mud”

The person she was in love with broke her heart, her friend died.

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Neshama asked her to go on a hike.

The started to play in the mud and this made her feel better.

 

“Baby”

Son when on the boat trip, she couldn’t make it out on the trip so someone else had to take him out.

His wet suit wasn’t thick enough and he got hyperthermia and she prayed that God would help him feel better. 

Seals swam up to the boat.

 

“Gypsies”

Her coming realization that she needs to just be comfortable the person that she is, that she isn’t going to lose ten pounds or get rid of her crows feet before she is sees the guy she likes again, but she is her.  And she is OK with that.

Class Notes 4-14

Class Notes 4-14-08

 

“Why I Make Sam Go To Church”- 

-         Sam always went to church with his mom when he was younger

-         When he got older he would rather hang out with his friends than go to church

-         No matter what kinds of goodies his mother took along with them he would rather have gone somewhere else.

 

“ Grace”-

-         You can fail and still be graceful

-         No matter how you fail you can still fail and be graceful about it and be happy

-         Just because you fail at something does not mean that’s the end, there is always something you can do that will make it better

-         You need to keep grace even through hard times

 

“ Tumblers Dog”-

-         No matter what you fears are you can always over come them

-         If you take things little by little than you can accomplish anything

-         Never say you cant do something

 

Basically its saying that if you don’t try you will never know how things will turn out, and most of the time when you actually do something it isn’t as bad as you think it’s going to be.    

 

 

 

 

Class Notes 4-7-08

Need to read- “Shitty First Drafts”Poems we brought in-
  Edony & Ivory by Paul McCartney
This song talks about learning to live, and learning to give.

   May If Be by Enya
This song talks living in both worlds and knowing how to live freely in both worlds.

    Hillbilly Deluxe by Brooks and Dunn
This song is all about this mans life and how free he is and how much he loves his life.

   We talked about how in the Color Purple how at the end Celie gets the right to live freely in her two worlds. Also how her sister Nettie comes back to see her and is living freely in two worlds.

   In the large group we talked about endings. How there are good and bad endings. Also how most people like a happy ending.

Poem #1- Write about the final scene of the Color Purple
Poem #2- Write about how were running out of ideas for peoms
Blog- A personal experience dealing with freedom to live

 

Notes from Class

Master of two worlds

Monomyth definition:
“Once the hero crosses the threshold, he comes to realize that there really is nothing separating his home from his new world. He now understands the differences and the balance between the comfortable safety of his home and the new world. With this understanding, he has also balanced his character and mind.”

Songs brought into class:
Brian: Beatles “hard days night”
Carolyn: Rent Soundtrack “No Day but today”
Jessica:Bible excerpts- Jesus coming back to life
Tanya: Travis Tritt “Where corn dont grow”

Examples from Group Discussion:

Literature:
Siddartha: he was educated and had possessions at the beginning of the novel, and then wanted to reach Nirvana, which he started with nothing.
The Color Purple: Celie was controlled by Mr. Albert in the beginning of the novel. But after Shug convinced her to leave, she led her own life.
Odyssey: Odysseus mastered both worlds of Troy and Ithaca.
Watership Down: The rabbits started at one burrow and then eventually moved to another.
Funny Boy: Arjie’s mom had a life at home, and another life with her affair.

Our Experiences
-Our home life and our college life
-Marlen: Japan and America

Examples from class discussion:

Hannah Montana: regular student during the day and a popstar at night
Superheros: regular person during the day, saving lives at night
Divorced Parents: children have two different lives at each of their households
Children: when they play pretend play world and real world

Class Notes

Examples of The Rescue from Without:
Titanic – Rose rescued from water
Watership Down – Fiver rescues Hazel from pipe
The Color Purple – Shug saves Celie from Mr.Songs the depict The Rescue from Without:
Mike: “I Won’t Back Down” by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Tanya: “Heaven Help My Heart” by Wynonni Judd
Zack: “Blue” by Joni Mitchel
Peggy: “Redemption Song” by Bob Marley

Write Blog #15 on: Have you ever needed help? Describe the person who helped you and how they rescued you.

Middlesex: British ship rescues Lefty & Desdemona from Turks and burning city.

 

Class Notes 3/31

3/31 Group notes:
Funny Boy
-So far no definite sign of sexuality (sex act)
-uncommon names
Ardha Aunty
  -spent time in america, came back to Sri Lanka
  -plans to marry man from america, but doesnt want to
  -Aunt meets another guy, family is mad
Arjie (main character)
  -plays with girls instead of boys
  -found with veil on and deemed ‘funny boy’ as an insult by his father
  -journey: to be accepted/find someone else like him to convince him that
   he is normal
  -archetype: the innocent/seeker

Middlesex
-born girl 1st
-born 2nd time as a teenage boy through surgery
-from Greece, family has strong Greek ties
-more male characteristics than female
-something different about the main character’s genes/chromosomes
-journey: to find identity
-archetype: seeker/creator

Poems
‘Home’ by Daurghty
‘Golden Slumbers’ by Beatles
‘She Can Change Me’ by McMumery Gentry
‘For Good Lyrics’ by Kristin Chenoweth

Return home/gatekeeper
Wizard of Oz: 2 thresholds; Glenda gatekeeper for both telling Dorthy knowledge

Homework
Write a poem about crossing a threshold from a friendly place to the unknown.

Notes for the day… week 11 A

The Magic Flight:
The hero may rather decide to return home after finishing his quest. He may be accompanied by a protector who helps him overcome the obstacles the hero might face as he returns home. With the prize in hand, the hero must flee from those he angered on his journey.Notes:
Zac – Thom Yorke – Atoms for Peace (Has to do with someone wanting the other to not do something harmful to themself.)
Peggy – And In the Night The Voices Claim my Ears (A man remembering the war in his dreams and in the night)
Mike – T.I. – Live In The Sky (Someone’s best friend dies and lives his life without fear of death.)
Tanya – Leanne Rhimes – 10,000 Angels (Meeting someone from the past and them calling upon 10,000 angels to help them)

-The hero finally accepts the fact to go home. With all the stages that have led up to it, the character seems to wanting to go home.

-Athena helps Odysseus come back home.

-Wendy (from Peter Pan) decides to go back home and Peter Pan follows her home and waits for her father to come home and get her.

-The magic flight relates to a date. The entire ‘hero’s journey’ is a date. Meeting someone new, embarking on a new journey, and wishing it would never end. The magic flight being the ride home.

Poem: Any character from literature or movie and conduct a poem on their magic flight.

Notes 10 B

Week 10 B

March 19, 2008

Class Notes

Note taker: Tanya Grenoble

  

Refusal of the return

-         Jess brought the song called “The Day Before You.” By: Rascal Flats

-         Song is about the singer met someone and they don’t want to go back to the way of life before they met that person.

-         Tanya brought the song called “ My Give A Damn’s Busted.” By: Jo Dee Messina

-           This song talks about the singer’s ex-boyfriend trying to get her to come back to him and she tells him that he’s broken her heart so many times that her give a damn’s busted. And she really don’t want to go back to life with him.

Blog theme

-         a time in our lives when we refused a return

Poem theme

-         refusal of the return