10 September 2008 Class Notes

• Important Dates to Remember: 1) October 13 - First Test 2) October 23 - World Premiere Film at Emerson Cultural Center 3) November 12 - Second Test 4) December 15 - Final at 8AM
• We will have both individual and group presentations coming up throughout the term.
• Read an excerpt from "Finnegan's Wake" by James Joyce. *It sound like a very complicated book to read! (Check out MSU Bookstore's Top 100) Also talked a bit about Joyce Carol Oates - "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"
• Looked at children's rhymes..."Hey diddle, diddle, the cat and the fiddle, the cow jumped over the moon. The little dog laughed to see such a sport and the dish ran away with the spoon." What's interesting is how many version there are of this rhyme AND what scandalous meaning it might have. When I looked it up to make sure I was typing all the right words, the questionable Wikipedia poped up. There are four different versions, one in the UK, another in Canada, one in Australia and then the US version. And, to top it off, the rhyme is supposedly about Queen Elizabeth I, Robert Dudley the Earl of Leicester, and two servants who secretly eloped. Who knew?
• Didactic - designed or intended to teach, pedogogical teaching
• Sexson read some example of displaced fairytales, or were they fractured/twisted fairtales?
• Also, we numbered off and picked groups for our group presentations at the end of the semester.