For me:
1) Family
2) (Mostly) Fun job
3) (Mostly) Great students :-}
4) Playing tennis (I have gotten back into playing seriously, and it has been fun)
5) Food--all of it
Each week, you are required create an original post and respond to two posts. These posts may be poems, song lyrics, short stories, Ted Talks, aphorisms, pictures, news stories, etc. Each Monday, a new posting will go up, and I will check to make sure that each student has responded to the previous week's post. What do you need to include in your response? That is up to you--what stood out to you? What moved you? What was your initial reaction? Do you agree? Do you disagree? Is there something you want to analyze? These are free responses, so the content is up to you. I am not going to set a limit on the length of the response--just something longer than a tweet and shorter than an essay. In addition to your own response, you must comment on two other students' response (you know, like dialogue or something).
Last year, I had a whole long post about the greatest holiday of the year. If you want, you are welcome to discuss any thoughts you have about Thanksgiving, but what I want you to concentrate on for this year is the last part: what are you thankful for? You could make this about one thing or it can be a list.
For me: 1) Family 2) (Mostly) Fun job 3) (Mostly) Great students :-} 4) Playing tennis (I have gotten back into playing seriously, and it has been fun) 5) Food--all of it
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Per request, we are going to discuss the greatest Disney movie. Make sure that you are fully explaining your choice. I think the top ones are Lion King, Moana, Sword in the Stone, Incredibles, Frozen, Toy Story 3, and Robin Hood--in that order. Since I do not have time to defend all of my choices, I will take on the first two--please keep in mind that I could launch into a dissertation over each of these choices, but I want to limit my reasoning so I do not take any of your potential material. Lion King is the quintessential Disney movie: it has royalty, talking animals, award winning music, and a famous storyline to follow (Hamlet). More than anything, LK lacks the holes that many of the other movies possess. Even looking at it through a feminist lense, many of the tropes are explained away because of the structure of lion prides: women do all of the work--hunting raising the kids--and that is shown, but there is still a head of the pride. Many scholars have argued that it pays homage to the tribes of the region (I am sure there are critics who will say the opposite). I am not saying it is the perfect movie (I could nitpick at a few items), but it is the most complete of the Disney movies. It focuses on the relationships within families, and it does not get bogged down in a love story (it is there--"Can you feel the love tonight"--but it is not the driving force of the film. I guess I will stop there. Moana is a great representation of the new Disney, but I will let you all debate that one out.
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