Monday: Warm up
Finish Nietzsche Readings
Discuss Readings/ Nietzsche Lecture
Begin “Full” Existentialism Lecture
Tuesday: Warm up
“Full” Existentialism Lecture
Wednesday: Warm up
Continue “Full” Existentialism Lecture (if needed)
Sartre Lecture with Biography
Sartre Reading “Existentialism is a Humanism”
Thursday: Warm up
Finish Sartre Reading, Discussions of questions
Camus Lecture
Friday: Reading-based Warm up on “The Myth of Sisyphus”
Kierkegaard and Religious Existentialism
“Abraham and Isaac” (reading from Genesis) and Ethics
31 January 2011
Schedule for the week of 1/31/11 to 2/4/11
Monday: Warm up
Finish Nietzsche Readings
Discuss Readings/ Nietzsche Lecture
Begin “Full” Existentialism Lecture
Tuesday: Warm up
“Full” Existentialism Lecture
Wednesday: Warm up
Continue “Full” Existentialism Lecture (if needed)
Sartre Lecture with Biography
Sartre Reading “Existentialism is a Humanism”
Thursday: Warm up
Finish Sartre Reading, Discussions of questions
Camus Lecture
Friday: Reading-based Warm up on “The Myth of Sisyphus”
Kierkegaard and Religious Existentialism
“Abraham and Isaac” (reading from Genesis) and Ethics
Finish Nietzsche Readings
Discuss Readings/ Nietzsche Lecture
Begin “Full” Existentialism Lecture
Tuesday: Warm up
“Full” Existentialism Lecture
Wednesday: Warm up
Continue “Full” Existentialism Lecture (if needed)
Sartre Lecture with Biography
Sartre Reading “Existentialism is a Humanism”
Thursday: Warm up
Finish Sartre Reading, Discussions of questions
Camus Lecture
Friday: Reading-based Warm up on “The Myth of Sisyphus”
Kierkegaard and Religious Existentialism
“Abraham and Isaac” (reading from Genesis) and Ethics
24 January 2011
Schedule for the week and blog post asssignment
Schedule of the Week of 1/24/201to 1/28/2011
Great Ideas
Monday: Finish The Bacchae Performances, Begin Protagonist film
Tuesday: Finish Protagonist film, In-class essay on The Bacchae (organizational structure)
Wednesday: In-class essay on The Bacchae (execution and peer editing)
Thursday: Marxism introduction (lecture) and readings, Introduction to “ideology”
Friday: Marxism continued and the application of a Marxian critical perspective
Great Ideas
Monday: Finish The Bacchae Performances, Begin Protagonist film
Tuesday: Finish Protagonist film, In-class essay on The Bacchae (organizational structure)
Wednesday: In-class essay on The Bacchae (execution and peer editing)
Thursday: Marxism introduction (lecture) and readings, Introduction to “ideology”
Friday: Marxism continued and the application of a Marxian critical perspective
Blog Post for the Week
Last week I asked you about masks, in the spirit of asking you to comment on a theme related to the content of the week's class work. This week we continue this trend and, as we are beginning a discussion of Marxism and Marxist criticism with its importance on an economic interpretation of the world, I ask you to tell me how the economic structure, especially the implicit understandings which define one's perspective of the world (one's "ideology"), affects your understanding of a text. This text can be a work of art, a play, a film, a television, really any creative work.
17 January 2011
Blog Post and schedule for the week of 1/17 to 1/21
Great job everyone for your responses on last week's blog. I love that y'all have gotten into this. It can be a great resource if we use it.
First, the schedule for the week.
Tuesday: Making masks and practicing for the play. Remember to bring supplies to make your mask. I'll be taking a daily grade just to make sure everybody is contributing.
Wednesday: Practice, practice, practice. Wednesday is dedicated to finishing masks, finishing set pieces, backdrops etc. Remember the more creative the better. I'll also have copies of the play for everyone so that you can use it during the performances. When everyone is finished prepping for the performances, you'll write up the half page on the mask's symbolism.
Thursday: Today is performance day! Everyone will deliver their glorious theatrical experiences to the world.
Friday: Behind every lesson you get at school there is the underlying question of relevance. "Why are we learning this?" I have heard that (very fair) question thousands of times. This question becomes especially prescient when studying something like ancient Greek drama. Friday we will be watching Jessica Yu's film Protagonist. In this film four men's very different life experiences are juxtaposed against The Bacchae, with powerful and relevant effect.
BLOG POST FOR RESPONSE
This week we're making masks, but we are more comfortable wearing masks than we'd care to admit. Human beings put on a mask every day. Call it a "persona" or "etiquette" but in some way we all present a different face to the world than that which we know to be true when we are alone.
The question here is why do people do this? Can we be authentic if we continually put on a different face for the outside world? Is it simply a matter of diplomacy? Am I taking all of this too seriously? Write me some answers to these questions as well as some examples of "masks" (metaphorical or no) that people wear.
First, the schedule for the week.
Tuesday: Making masks and practicing for the play. Remember to bring supplies to make your mask. I'll be taking a daily grade just to make sure everybody is contributing.
Wednesday: Practice, practice, practice. Wednesday is dedicated to finishing masks, finishing set pieces, backdrops etc. Remember the more creative the better. I'll also have copies of the play for everyone so that you can use it during the performances. When everyone is finished prepping for the performances, you'll write up the half page on the mask's symbolism.
Thursday: Today is performance day! Everyone will deliver their glorious theatrical experiences to the world.
Friday: Behind every lesson you get at school there is the underlying question of relevance. "Why are we learning this?" I have heard that (very fair) question thousands of times. This question becomes especially prescient when studying something like ancient Greek drama. Friday we will be watching Jessica Yu's film Protagonist. In this film four men's very different life experiences are juxtaposed against The Bacchae, with powerful and relevant effect.
BLOG POST FOR RESPONSE
This week we're making masks, but we are more comfortable wearing masks than we'd care to admit. Human beings put on a mask every day. Call it a "persona" or "etiquette" but in some way we all present a different face to the world than that which we know to be true when we are alone.
The question here is why do people do this? Can we be authentic if we continually put on a different face for the outside world? Is it simply a matter of diplomacy? Am I taking all of this too seriously? Write me some answers to these questions as well as some examples of "masks" (metaphorical or no) that people wear.
09 January 2011
Blog Post for the Week of 1/10 to 1/14
First off, great job on replying to the blog post this last week. It looks like a pretty good percentage of you got it posted by the deadline. I am sure that we'll all get this week's assignment in on time. You all rock!
This week we'll be beginning The Bacchae, in which a major theme is "transgression and punishment." My question for you this week relates to this theme and asks... what is the difference between justice and revenge? Who decides what is defined as just? Is this socially or culturally constructed, that is, are these definitions incumbent on the culture or society from which they emerge? This is due by midnight this coming Friday.
This week we'll be beginning The Bacchae, in which a major theme is "transgression and punishment." My question for you this week relates to this theme and asks... what is the difference between justice and revenge? Who decides what is defined as just? Is this socially or culturally constructed, that is, are these definitions incumbent on the culture or society from which they emerge? This is due by midnight this coming Friday.
04 January 2011
The question for the week regards...free will. I've already (or will, depending on when you read this) ask you how much control YOU FEEL YOU HAVE in your life, and I've already asked you (see above), but now I want to know some actual examples. Give me an example of an event that you believe was FATED to happen.
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