Tuesday, 04/03/07: Project 365 #156
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Since it is now, as I blog this, almost the end of the year and I have a bit of extra time on my hands I have been going back through my Project 365 pictures and making the labeling of the days and dates consistent. There are a couple of shots I failed to blog in the right order, so I am going back and blogging them now.
This pictures seems to be from a time long ago, because it was taken when I was teaching my Honors seminar for the first time, in the Spring of 2007. Now I have just finished teaching that course (on European Romanticism and American Transcendentalism) for the second time and I will be teaching it for a third time next Spring. Every class is quite different even when the material is more or less the same. I do remember distinctly that both classes had many more female students and since we did read one German fairy tale the discussion did turn to Disney now and again....They almost seemed apologetic for their unabashed love and expertise in all things Disney.
Disney movies is something they will always know more about than I do and so I have to let them be the "experts" when it comes to them...I still try and instill critical thinking and reading patterns and I think it works -- I also try and make it clear that they can love the Disney while also learning to read the messages these movies contain somewhat more critically....