Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Wednesday, December 3

Individual Presentations 2:

Me:
  • everything is a story
  • loved reading/ words since childhood

Danielle:

  • parents want her to be passionate
  • tautological answer not ok
  • 'i want to be the dragon-lady'
  • great teacher inspired her
  • 'reading is a portal into fantasy'

Derek:

  • being a professional reader is more practical than being and athlete
  • science-fiction/ fantasy are his favorite, so he is defending them against non-believers (Dune, Ender's Game, Harry Potter, Wheel of Time)
  • wants to learn to write like these writers

Jessi:

  • movies and literature are connected
  • how it effects people without them knowing it
  • pixar movie-making process

Chelsea:

  • who I am as defined by her degree, not her name
  • instruct people as to what it means
  • English controls the world- you can't have math w/o it
  • Shelley: everything refers to literature
  • Sidney: nothing can blossom without English

Kari:

  • she likes to read, loves it actually
  • 'why would you like to read something that someone just made up?'
  • the point of stories that aren't 'true'
  • the truth: can be found through ways other than newspapers- imagination enables the other truths
  • not the way things are, but the way they could be

chaos: is a word used to refer to a form of order that you don't yet understand

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