june 3

JOURNAL TOPIC:
Take notes on the presentations that will enable you to connect the dots and prepare for your final.

AGENDA:
1. Journal
2. Masterpiece presentations

June 1
3
Esme
Christian

7

masterpiece academy question

When the last presentation has been given, this is the question I'll ask you to write on for your final reflection.  Please feel free to start a post or notes that will help you remember what's important.
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For the last two weeks the Masterpiece Academy has been your showcase.  As you reflect on this experience, and your overall experience in this course throughout the year, please address the following questions in a traditional MLA-style essay.  Then post about it to your blog in any medium (music, pictures, video, animation, [?]) that brings your thesis to life.  (You may embed the original paper if you can't think of a better way to communicate.)

Please Note: Everything on the traditional paper assignment counts.  Please proofread and/or ask a friend or relative to help with organization, flow, and mechanics (capitalization, punctuation, spelling, grammar, MLA style, e.g.)


Masterpiece Academy Question

Montaigne ended his essay "Of The Education of Children" this way:

To return to my subject, there is nothing like alluring the appetite and affections; otherwise you make nothing but so many asses laden with books; by dint of the lash, you give them their pocketful of learning to keep; whereas, to do well you should not only lodge it with them, but make them espouse it. (1580)

The word espouse originally meant "to marry" and took on connotations like "embrace," "love," and "advocate."  Have you espoused learning?  Explain your growth in this course via a narrative that portrays you as the dynamic protagonist in your own Bildungsroman.  Please include the following elements.

ELEMENT 1: You have been treated as colleagues and you have been given a great deal of choice in this course; this represents a high level of trust.  Did you and the others deserve it?  Earn it?  Honor it? 

ELEMENT 2: Fiction has been called "the lie that tells the truth."  Which works, authors, or characters did you read this year that rang true enough to make you feel like they described parts of you and/or your journey? (Please mention at least three.  It makes them sad when we forget them.)

ELEMENT 3: Have you re/connected with a passion that drives you?  If so, how will you continue your learning?  If not, how will you proceed?

ELEMENT 4: [Something about literature or this course that made you laugh out loud.]

ELEMENT 5: [A unifying theme that runs through a minimum of five (5) presentations; a quality of the content, or the speakers, or their communication techniques that strikes you as something important that we have in common.]  Please illustrate/support your point with specific examples from the presentations.

ELEMENT 6: Evaluate whether you completed the hero's journey.  Are you a hero?  To what extent did you respond to the call of adventure?  Did you find a mentor, conquer a challenge, and return enlightened?

ELEMENT 7: For old time's sake, sneak in a literary technique.  Don't make a big deal out of it.  I'll know it's there.

orientation for next year's students tomorrow at lunch in 608

If you are interested in co-facilitating a brief lunch meeting tomorrow in 608 for next year's students, please let me know.  And if you know a junior who is planning to take the course next year, please let him/her know.

june 1

JOURNAL TOPIC:
Take notes on the presentations that will enable you to connect the dots and prepare for your final.

AGENDA:
1. Journal
2. Masterpiece presentations

June 1
3
Ashley
Morgan

7
Mollee
 

may 29

JOURNAL TOPIC:  Please take notes that help you connect the dots and prepare for your final.

AGENDA:
1. Journal
2. Masterpiece presentations


3
Justin
Christina
Emilio


(Brigette if time)

7
*Follow up on Jared's work
*Quiz

1: Who is the main character? 

2: What is the event that scars the main character? Why does it affect him 

so deeply, meaning, why does he almost shut everyone out?

3: What happened to the main characters mother when he and his brother 

were young? 

4: Who is Catherine and how is she effected by the same event, and why?

5: Who is Amon, and whose orders is he following? 

6: Who and what is Ragnarok? Why does he serve the main character?

7: What age was the main character taken captive, and what was the group 

that did it?

8: Who is Hina? What does she do in the coils, and what is her special 

ability?

9: Who shows up after Archer is revealed to be alive? Do you personally 

trust him?

10: Who is Lord Dreadwyrm? What is his real name? What really happened to 

the main character's mother, and what is the out come of the epic battle? 

may 28

JOURNAL TOPIC:
Take notes on the masterpiece presentations that will help you connect the dots and write on the final. 

AGENDA:
1. Journal
2. Masterpiece presentations

3
Isaiah

7

may 27

JOURNAL TOPIC:
Take notes on the masterpiece presentations that will help you connect the dots and write on the final.

AGENDA:
1. Journal
2. Masterpieces:

Period 3
Jonatan
Ronaldo
Brigette

Period 7
Rachel
Christine