Traditional Fairy Tales, Class Seven (02/19)

[a-phale.livejournal.com]

Monday, February 19, Second Period

The usual offering of breakfast pastries and drinks was laid out on the table. Aziraphale was looking slightly distracted, and occasionally would lose track of what he was doing and stare off into space with a bemused expression. He appeared to be in good spirits, however, albeit a bit sheepish.

“Before we begin our discussion, I have a bit of other business to take care of. First, there is a list on the wall of students who missed class last week, and from whom I will need written excuses.

Armony Eiselstein
Phoebe Halliwell excused
Jack Harkness excused
Jude Lizowski excused
Miley Stewart excused

Second, I’d like to remind all of you that I need to speak with at least one representative from your project groups regarding your end of term projects. My regular office hours are third and fourth periods on Tuesdays, or you can sign up below in the comments to schedule a meeting at another time. Lastly, I also want to remind you all that we’ll be making a trip to New York City over the weekend of March 16-18 with Dr Wilson’s Conflict Management class.”

LECTURE/DISCUSSION: “Your reading assignments for this week, and the reading assignment you’ll have tonight, deal with the themes of morals and morality in fairy tales. Not only do the tales present common character types, but they often deal with the concepts of sin, corruption and punishment, as well as the dichotomy of good versus evil.

“For today’s discussion, I want you to look at the tales you read, "Little Snow White" and "Lambikin", and consider how they depict the Seven Deadly Sins:

Wrath
Greed
Lust
Gluttony
Sloth
Envy
Pride

“To start you off, I’ll use the example of Pride as it’s found in “Little Snow White”. The evil step-mother, who is a witch or sorceress, owns a mirror which she uses to reinforce her self-image as the most beautiful woman in the land. When this self-image is threatened – when her Pride is threatened – she lashes out and attempts to destroy her competition. In this way, the evils of the extremes of pride are depicted for the tale’s audience, presenting a case for moderation and humility.”

READING ASSIGNMENT: “Your reading assignment for our next class is "Jack and the Beanstalk". Remember that there’s no class next week due to Spring Break. However, the week after we’ll be meeting in the Danger Shop for another Immersion Study.”

[OOC information about the group projects: Your group project assignment is choose a tale not on the reading list for class and to update it for a different setting, maintaining the character archetypes, themes, etc. There are a number of ways you can do this: rewrite the tale so that it takes place in a modern/futuristic setting, keep the “medieval” setting but rewrite the story itself to reflect modern sensibilities, rewrite the tale for a different cultural setting, etc. If you’re not certain how to go about this, please contact me OOC or talk to Aziraphale IC for assistance.]

[ooc: Please wait for OCD is up and class is in session.]

Syllabus
Class Roster
Project Groups
Linkdrop for classes

Comments

SIGN IN

[a-phale.livejournal.com]

Standard collapsey procedure.

Re: SIGN IN

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana Lang

Re: SIGN IN

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Turtle Wexler

Re: SIGN IN

[chasingsnitches.livejournal.com]

Cedric Diggory

Re: SIGN IN

[enginegirl.livejournal.com]

Kaylee Frye

DISCUSSION

[a-phale.livejournal.com]

For today’s discussion, I want you to look at the tales you read, "Little Snow White" and "Lambikin", and consider how they depict the Seven Deadly Sins.

Re: DISCUSSION

[sensethevisions]

Phoebe keeps her head down as she takes notes and keepss to herself.

Re: DISCUSSION

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia was taking careful notes, especially on the seven deadly sins, when it suddenly became much, much harder to keep her eyes open. Impossible, even, and her head was certainly now much heavier than it had been a few moments ago.

Soon enough, she had her head pillowed on her notebook and she was out like a proverbial light.

Re: DISCUSSION

[a-phale.livejournal.com]

Aziraphale saw Nadia's head drop, and realized what was happening. He didn't have any details regarding her discussions with Wilson, but he did know about her sleep problems, and it worried him.

Keeping a very close eye on her, he allowed her to remain asleep for the time being.

Re: DISCUSSION

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

Jack's bruised jaw had stiffened over night, which made talking not fun at all. Add in the incredibly painful shoulder, and the painkillers he'd taken before class, and Jack was so not up for discussing much of anything.

Re: DISCUSSION

[bookyeve.livejournal.com]

"Jack? Oh, lord. You look like you should lie down. Unless you want to talk about the Jackal and Lambikin being very full of himself, as well as grain?"

Re: DISCUSSION

[bookyeve.livejournal.com]

"Well, it's rather funny that only the villain in Little Snow White has those flaws, and the protagonist in Lambikin has quite a few in comparison. Unless we consider Little Snow White being as thick as two planks to be a Sin, which it isn't, just vastly annoying."

Re: DISCUSSION

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"Greed might possibly lead to carnivorous lamps eating you up."

True, it had absolutely nothing to do with either of the stories, but there you go. Turtle's big contribution to the class today. And it made her grin like like the idiot she probably sounded like.

Re: DISCUSSION

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"Well there's also envy in Snow White." Billy said. "Which would seem to go hand in hand with Pride in that case."

TALK TO AZIRAPHALE

[a-phale.livejournal.com]

Ask questions about the discussion, the projects, or duck-hugging.

Re: TALK TO AZIRAPHALE

[otherside-miley.livejournal.com]

"Do you want a note from my father for last week's absence?" Miley asked, trying to remember exactly why she had missed the class. With awards season in full swing, Hannah Montana was really busy on the weekends and her Monday class was bearing the brunt of that.

Re: TALK TO AZIRAPHALE

[dude-its-jude.livejournal.com]

"Um, hi, sir," Jude said sheepishly. "Do I like need a doctor's note for last week? I was just really sick . . ."

TALK TO THE TAs

[a-phale.livejournal.com]

But please wait for them to tag in.

Re: TALK TO THE TAs

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana was available to help anyone who might need it. She also couldn't quite keep the little smile off her face whenever she glanced at Mr. Phale.

Re: TALK TO THE TAs

[sensethevisions]

Phoebe was here.

SCHEDULE A MEETING

[a-phale.livejournal.com]

Schedule someone from your project group to meet with Aziraphale regarding your project topic.

OOC

[a-phale.livejournal.com]

Soooo tired.

Re: OOC

[dr-jwilsonmd.livejournal.com]

Err...I think it's the 16-17-18 hun.

Re: OOC

[chasingangela]

Does anybody from my group have a preference for the meeting? We should probably figure out what we're doing, too.

Re: OOC

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

*gives coffee*

Jack was excused last week already, I'd thought? Cedric told Phale why he wasn't in class (http://community.livejournal.com/fandomhigh/1232853.html?thread=72374485#t72374485) - do you still need Jack to explain IC?