Showing posts with label Lewis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lewis. Show all posts

The Great Divorce Project: Great Art Inspires (Great?) Art

  • The image to the right is the cover art from Gungor's Ghosts upon the Earth, their latest album partially inspired by Lewis' novella. Now it's your turn to churn out a little art, accompanied, of course, by some fine critical work. Check out the requirements below.
  • TGD Presentation (use Keynote, Prezi, or a professional presentation platform of your choice)
    • Slide 1: Your names, chapter number
    • Slide 2: A very basic outline of chapter content (just give a quick overview of the basic plot and main characters involved)
    • Slide 3: Three quotes - these should encapsulate the chapter
    • Slide 4: Transfiguration - explain how Lewis inverts "normal" (traditional/conventional) conceptions of heaven or hell in your chapter. 
      • You may focus on any of the Lit Terms from this unit:
        • convention, setting, dream vision, imagery
      • Also try to explain why Lewis does this. 
    • Slide 5: Artwork - Finally, draw a scene (or images) that best represent(s) the content of your group's assigned chapter(s), and include, if you desire, additional art based on memorable imagery from your chapter. If you cannot draw, then consider another medium, like a collage.
      • This artistic element you will photograph and import into your presentation so we can all admire its profundity and prettiness. 

DUE DATE: We will begin presentations next Tuesday (8/25).   

Wednesday, 8/21 - Houston, We Have a Touchdown . . . and a Problem.

One of the first pictures returned by the Mars Polar Lander
  • P&P
  • Binder check
    • 3 ring
    • loose leaf college ruled paper
    • dividers (at least four)
  • TGD - Chapters 
    1.  Hell - Grey Town
    2. Tousle-Headed Poet (Communist), Intelligent-Looking Man (Capitalist-Materialist), Apostate Bishop (Spiritualist)
    3. Landing in the Foothills, the Bright People . . .
    4. The Big Man ("I want my rights, see?")
      1. Sin - self-sufficiency,  
    5. Lions playing. The Apostate Episcopal Bishop ("honest academic inquiry!")  
      1. Sin - apostasy (elevating ideas over Reality . . . God)
    6. River walking and the apple tree and the Intelligent-Looking Man, a materialist-Capitalist. Waterfall angel.
      1. Sin - greed 
    7. Hard-Bitten Ghost (the conspiracy theorist)
      1. Sin - cynicism 
    8. Whimpering Ghost
      1. Sin - self-loathing (an inverted vanity)
    9.  
    

Tuesday, 8/19 - TGD Ch 1-2

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Gather 'round Uncle Jack for a fan-tasty story, children.
  • P&P
  • Pull up a chair and get ready to discuss chapters 1 and 2 of TGD. Please take more notes as we go. Any handwritten notes you take can be used on your ICE (In Class Essay). 

HW: Don't forget to bring a three ring binder, college ruled paper (loose leaf) and dividers to class on Wednesday.