Traditional Fairy Tales, Class Five

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Monday, February 5, Period Two

"Today, for the first part of the period, work in pairs or groups to review the material we covered in the previous classes. I will be available to take questions if you have them. When the review period is over, Miss Lang and Miss Halliwell will pass around your exams, and you'll have the remainder of the period to complete them. Before you leave today, I will need absence excuses from Armony Eiselstein and Phoebe Halliwell."


Class One (01/08): Introduction
Class Two (01/15): Character Archetypes I
Class Three (01/22): Character Archetypes II

EXAM 1:
Choose two of the following and write a short essay in response to each.

1. In "Jack the Giant Killer", the central character achieves status and riches. In "John the True", the central character sacrifices himself for another. Examine the differences between the two characters, and explain how both still fit the model of "hero".

2. Using the examples provide by "Molly Whuppie" and "The Sleeping Beauty", examine the "active heroine" versus the "passive heroine".

3. Discuss how the three hermits of "The Dancing Water, the Singing Apple, and the Speaking Bird" fit the archetype of "helper".

4. Examine the differences between the parent/family figures in "The Sleeping Beauty" and "Mr Fox".

HOMEWORK: Your reading assignment for next week is "The Rose Tree" and "Brother and Sister".

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As you do.

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[iftheseshadows.livejournal.com]

Neil Perry

REVIEW FOR THE TEST

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Try to get a little studying done in amongst the gossip.

Re: REVIEW FOR THE TEST

[nadiathesaint]

The bizarre migraine from the night before was thankfully gone, and Nadia was flipping through her books, attempting to focus on reviewing for the test.

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[pyroliz.livejournal.com]

Liz was quietly reviewing the material that she needed to go over.

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[2-twin-devils-2.livejournal.com]

Kaoru looked over his notes and the stories they'd read so far. He'd studied while at work the other day, and felt pretty prepared for this.

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[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

Conner? Totally not eating meatballs while he studied. Really.

. . . the boy had a weird idea of what "cramming" meant.

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[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Turtle gets ready to flex her B.S. muscles.

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[chasingsnitches.livejournal.com]

Cedric studied his notes quietly.

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[enginegirl.livejournal.com]

Kaylee looked over her notes before taking the test.

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[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana's already studied pretty thoroughly, but there's no point wasting extra studying time!

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[proudsidekick.livejournal.com]

Layla was going through her notes with another set of highlighters, just in case there was something she'd missed reviewing.

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[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Billy stumps in, sits down, and begins skimming the stories. He hoped no one would trip over his peg leg.

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[chasingangela]

Angela leaned over her notes, half-reviewing, half-daydreaming.

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[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

River already remembered what she needed to know and played with her pens instead.

TALK TO AZIRAPHALE

[a-phale.livejournal.com]

This is your chance to clear up any questions before the test, or you can catch him after class.

TALK TO THE TAs

[a-phale.livejournal.com]

Another good source for study help.

Re: TALK TO THE TAs

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana's here, looking around and wondering where Phoebe is, but available to talk to anyone.

EXAM

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Post your two essay questions here, or handwave them and just tell me how you did.

Re: EXAM

[iftheseshadows.livejournal.com]

Neil had spent much of the weekend studying for this test and as such he turned in two essays with meticulous detail and threading of the work they'd gone over in class, the texts themselves and his own opinions supported by the text subject matter.

Grammer and punctuation were impecable.

Re: EXAM

[pyroliz.livejournal.com]

Liz's two essay questions were well structured, full of relevant evidence and she convincingly backed up the evidence that she had. Overall she did a handwavily very good job.

Re: EXAM

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia's exam isn't half-bad, but it's obviously not her best work, either. This might have something to do with the fact that she spent a good chunk of time for the exam staring vaguely down at her paper, her eyes half-shut.

Still, she does get it all done, and it's probably at least C worthy work.

Re: EXAM

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

1. In "Jack the Giant Killer", the central character achieves status and riches. In "John the True", the central character sacrifices himself for another. Examine the differences between the two characters, and explain how both still fit the model of "hero".

Well, I guess both of them will get a good spin on the ten o'clock news. Because we all know that it's just the stuff on the highlight reels that gets covered, and it doesn't matter how many times you turn the ball over or play really, really solid fundamental ball in between the highlights. All the people watching the news are going to see is the cool flashy highlight stuff.

So they both come out looking like heroes.

2. Using the examples provide by "Molly Whuppie" and "The Sleeping Beauty", examine the "active heroine" versus the "passive heroine".

The active heroine is the kind my friend Kira will write a song about. The passive heroine is the one I get to hear her complain about for hours on end, and that gets really tiring after a while.

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[untouchableskin.livejournal.com]

Marie had spent most of her weekend studying for her two exams, so she did a really good job on her essays and knew the material well.

OOC

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