Isabelle Saxon & Sofi Savarese
Daily Blog for Wednesday the 24th
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This Morning we all came into the classroom and started with our Seminar on Cinderella. We had amassed a lot of questions and thoughts about Cinderella on the class Padlet; however, we focused on our big questions and Ever After questions. Our big questions were unlike the specific movie questions; the big question focused on larger overarching topics about all Cinderella stories as a whole. It was an interesting discussion about what defines a “Cinderella” and other larger discussion-worthy themes in the stories. Everyone had such interesting perspectives, it was so interesting to see what everyone noticed about the stories. Then we took a break and when we came back we watched the original sleeping beauty. It was very interesting to get to see the movie and see it in a very different way then when I was a child. Then after that, we all headed out to go have lunch.
The Hybrid and In-Person Students Talking Over Zoom
After our break for lunch, we read three different short stories of the original versions of sleeping beauty. We read two versions of Little Brier-Rose by Jacob and William grimm and The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood by Charles Perrault, the earliest version. We then developed “big questions” about the story and the text about views on the protagonist/ antagonist, villains' characteristics, storyline, language, timeframe, gender roles and more. We then proceeded to have a short break before coming back and watching Disney's Maleficent. This was a movie that shows the villain's perspective and twist to the story. We also worked on analyzing the movie and creating discussion questions for our upcoming seminar.
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