Blog, blog, blog........

Welcome, children, to our blog, a little space on which you may leave your personal imprint (as it pertains to literature and my class, at least). If you have not blogged yet, then it will be an experiment for both of us; I have not had a class blog - ever! It should be more fun for you to do this than regular responses, such as a journal, because we can bring other outlets to the blog that can add to the discussion.

If you look at the sidebar, I will continuously post links throughout the year - some to help your writing, some that are relevant to all aspects of our class and some that may just interest you. Still working on that, so bear with me!

I'm really excited to hear (read) what you have to say, but please keep it appropriate or I'll have to end up censoring you, and no one wants that to happen. I know I'll find wisdom in your words, and I'll provide you with as much direction as I can.

So here goes nothing. ;-)

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Identifying Symbols with "The Simpsons"

Today we watch The Simpsons episode title "Das Bus," a parody, as most of you astutely discovered, of the book Lord of the Flies.

What I want you to do is to list all of the symbols you saw in the episode in your blog and write down for what ideas these characters, items and actions stood.

Go beyond just the items and their specific meaning, look to which characters are associated with these items and how the characters use the items.

Also, look how each character acts throughout the episode. If you know anything about that character on the show, why is it important that these characters were chosen to portray the parts that they do?

A link to the episode is provided at the top right of the page ("Das Bus").
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