If you are so inclined.
Best,
AK
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Book Suggestions
Here are some thoughts--more of a classical list, but here it is:
Tolstoy, War and Peace
Joyce, Ulysses
Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Achebe, Things Fall Apart
Marquez, A Hundred Years of Solitude
Marquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Forster, A Passage to India
Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
Tolstoy, Anna Karenia
Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
Proust, Remembrance of Things Past
Rushdie, Midnight's Children
Kafka, The Trial
Some more Recent and Modern Works
Petterson, Out Stealing Horses
Martel, The Life of Pi
Adiga, The White Tiger
McEwan, Amersterdam
I have some more thoughts--but let me know what you are thinking.
Best,
AK
Tolstoy, War and Peace
Joyce, Ulysses
Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Achebe, Things Fall Apart
Marquez, A Hundred Years of Solitude
Marquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Forster, A Passage to India
Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
Tolstoy, Anna Karenia
Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
Proust, Remembrance of Things Past
Rushdie, Midnight's Children
Kafka, The Trial
Some more Recent and Modern Works
Petterson, Out Stealing Horses
Martel, The Life of Pi
Adiga, The White Tiger
McEwan, Amersterdam
I have some more thoughts--but let me know what you are thinking.
Best,
AK
Saturday, November 14, 2009
First Alchemist Blog
Please place your first blog entry regarding The Alchemist here:
This weekend--you can write about the following:
1.) The Hero Journey:
If you choose this assignment please write about how Santiago's journey follows the thread of the hero path; however, if you think that Santiago is not a hero, you are free to walk that path as well. However, please use language/terms that is associated with the Hero Journey and was provided for you during our first day with The Alchemist.
2.) Respond to a post on Coelho's blog regarding The Alchemist:
The link to that section of his blog can be found on our blog--you are free to agree of disagree with anything that Coelho writes or one of his fans believes. However, as always, please be respectful and I think it would be wise if you directly referenced passages from the book.
As always--good luck and please let me know if you have any questions.
Best,
AK
This weekend--you can write about the following:
1.) The Hero Journey:
If you choose this assignment please write about how Santiago's journey follows the thread of the hero path; however, if you think that Santiago is not a hero, you are free to walk that path as well. However, please use language/terms that is associated with the Hero Journey and was provided for you during our first day with The Alchemist.
2.) Respond to a post on Coelho's blog regarding The Alchemist:
The link to that section of his blog can be found on our blog--you are free to agree of disagree with anything that Coelho writes or one of his fans believes. However, as always, please be respectful and I think it would be wise if you directly referenced passages from the book.
As always--good luck and please let me know if you have any questions.
Best,
AK
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Tonight's HW
Please extend one of the ideas we discussed in class today here:
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts--great job today.
Best,
AK
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts--great job today.
Best,
AK
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Sunday, November 8, 2009
The Alchemist Blog
Below you will find a link to Coelho's blog:
http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2009/06/22/workshop-the-alchemist/
I would like you to respond to the question he poses or build off of someone else's thoughts.
Let me know if you have any questions--again, please post your entries both on our Blog and on Coelho's.
Many thanks,
AK
http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2009/06/22/workshop-the-alchemist/
I would like you to respond to the question he poses or build off of someone else's thoughts.
Let me know if you have any questions--again, please post your entries both on our Blog and on Coelho's.
Many thanks,
AK
Saturday, November 7, 2009
HW For Monday
Please read up to page 134 for Monday...
Best,
AK
Elegy
Oh destiny of Borges
to have sailed across the diverse seas of the world
or across that single and solitary sea of diverse
names,
to have been a part of Edinburgh, of Zurich, of the
two Cordobas,
of Colombia and of Texas,
to have returned at the end of changing generations
to the ancient lands of his forebears,
to Andalucia, to Portugal and to those counties
where the Saxon warred with the Dane and they
mixed their blood,
to have wandered through the red and tranquil
labyrinth of London,
to have grown old in so many mirrors,
to have sought in vain the marble gaze of the statues,
to have questioned lithographs, encyclopedias,
atlases,
to have seen the things that men see,
death, the sluggish dawn, the plains,
and the delicate stars,
and to have seen nothing, or almost nothing
except the face of a girl from Buenos Aires
a face that does not want you to remember it.
Oh destiny of Borges,
perhaps no stranger than your own.
Jorge Luis Borges
Best,
AK
Elegy
Oh destiny of Borges
to have sailed across the diverse seas of the world
or across that single and solitary sea of diverse
names,
to have been a part of Edinburgh, of Zurich, of the
two Cordobas,
of Colombia and of Texas,
to have returned at the end of changing generations
to the ancient lands of his forebears,
to Andalucia, to Portugal and to those counties
where the Saxon warred with the Dane and they
mixed their blood,
to have wandered through the red and tranquil
labyrinth of London,
to have grown old in so many mirrors,
to have sought in vain the marble gaze of the statues,
to have questioned lithographs, encyclopedias,
atlases,
to have seen the things that men see,
death, the sluggish dawn, the plains,
and the delicate stars,
and to have seen nothing, or almost nothing
except the face of a girl from Buenos Aires
a face that does not want you to remember it.
Oh destiny of Borges,
perhaps no stranger than your own.
Jorge Luis Borges
Thursday, November 5, 2009
The Labyrinth
Knock....and the door will open.
What did you see when you took off your shoes and you explored, what happened when the door opened, or did you not go in?
Best,
AK
What did you see when you took off your shoes and you explored, what happened when the door opened, or did you not go in?
Best,
AK
Monday, November 2, 2009
The Alchemist
Please consider:
On page 45 of my book it reads: "There must be a language that doesn't depend on words, the boy thought. I've already had that experience with my sheep, and now it's happening with people."
Simply, what is this language and how do you understand it? Looking at the blog entries I gave you today in class, I think it is safe to say that the most successful engage the question on a literal, symbolic, and personal level. Thus, I would implore you to try this one on for size. With that being said this seems to me to be a good exercise that encourages you to try without any fear of the implications your effort might garner.
I will comment, and give feedback, to these entries both personally and on a collective basis.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Good luck in your search for a personal legend,
King Santiago, hahaha
On page 45 of my book it reads: "There must be a language that doesn't depend on words, the boy thought. I've already had that experience with my sheep, and now it's happening with people."
Simply, what is this language and how do you understand it? Looking at the blog entries I gave you today in class, I think it is safe to say that the most successful engage the question on a literal, symbolic, and personal level. Thus, I would implore you to try this one on for size. With that being said this seems to me to be a good exercise that encourages you to try without any fear of the implications your effort might garner.
I will comment, and give feedback, to these entries both personally and on a collective basis.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Good luck in your search for a personal legend,
King Santiago, hahaha
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