Ariana Luk & Jayla Balderas
Daily Blog for Thursday the 25th
Today was day four of the Stories, Retellings, Disney, and More A-term. Each student received a book of their choice that re-told classic fairy tales, and we started with 45 minutes of personal reading time. We were encouraged to choose retellings of Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Mulan/Warrior Woman or Aladdin/One Thousand and One Nights. These books will tie into the final project next week. Afterward, the class read an article on the original version of Sleeping Beauty and how horrific the tale was, answering and asking questions as to why the story of Sleeping Beauty continues to exist and why certain parts were taken out. This led us to the next activity; a seminar focusing on the live-action Maleficent movie. Offering a completely new lens to the well known Sleeping Beauty tale. Many points were brought up, questioning if Maleficent was truly a villain or what can redeem one. The students discussed how solid Maleficent's motives were and how much involvement she held in Princess Aurora's fate. The morning finished off with class splitting up into groups to create big questions, a few popular ones were why true love is a consistent concept in Disney movies, why it's important to hear the perspective of the villain, and what is a lesson in Sleepy Beauty. Then for thirty minutes before the class broke for lunch everyone started to answer the big questions on a document.
After our self-reflection session on the big question of our choosing we joined back together to engage in a seminar. Of course our discussion topics are quite similar to our big questions because they were discussion of the questions. The motives of villains, disney's stories on the concept of love, and why it's important to hear the stories of villains were defently all included. As this is our last activity regarding Sleeping Beauty, a discussion about our big questions was well-fitting. When the schedule wouldn't allow for further discussion we could end the day with Disney's
Mulan (1998), in preparation for tomorrow's activities.
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