- not limited to print material (can use videos)
- eliminate information we already know about the story – go beyond the facts
*Don’t ask, “what does this poem mean?” but “how does this poem mean?”
* The moral of the story IS the story
* Dorothy
- The Alchemist finds the treasure right at home – in his “backyard”
- but Dorothy teaches us that the only way you can appreciate your own back
yard is to leave it and go to the land of Oz
- the journey is always the same
1. Separation
2. Initiation
3. Return
*When something in a story is forbidden, you can be sure it will be done
*The call to adventure that’s been denied – but once you have heard the call, you cannot go back again
- Frog and the Princess – she cannot ignore the frog requests, the princess
has heard the call and cannot return
- the return can never be to the same place – it has always moved through
our experiences
* “It’s wonderful to be terrified.” – MS Why?
* “Sometimes a cigar is only a cigar.” – Freud
*The wind in the willows – the music of the god Pan removes memory with a floating mist
- The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
* Book List / Class Bibliography:
- Mirror, Mirror on the Wall by Margaret Atwood
- there is a certain element of the haphazard in fairy tales
* Dreams happen to you – they are not decided upon before hand
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