Books vs Movies, Tuesday first period

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Jon was a bit (more than his usual) tired today, but put on a good face and did his best to smile at the students. "I hope you all enjoyed the book. If so, there are two more in the series. If not, well, you can put it down after today. Meanwhile, you get to learn a lot of apocryphal things about Oxford. Call it another universe." He thought for a moment. "Which is, I suppose, plausible, but it was fictionalized. Anyway, let's get started on the movie."

There was a newer one, apparently, that had gotten better reviews, but a series was a bit long for class, so they'd be watching the 2007 version.

And afterward, there would be the usual note about next week's text: The Bicentennial Man.

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Magically! Or as an animal.

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Josephine Jones

Listen to the lecture/Watch the movie!

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Wonder how cool Jon is for actually going to Oxford, then remember it hasn't actually got magic (or a Jordan College).

Class activity

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What are the differences? What do you think about the different endings? Was the religious aspect too downplayed in the movie? How cool are armored bears? Discuss!

Talk to Jon!

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He's mostly here!

OOC!

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I just remembered we've actually done daemons as an event, so if your character's been through that, feel free to notice? (And of course assume this is meta for Golden Compass, I just don't know what that's called.)