Dr. Lechler,
I didn't know what to make of this class upon starting. I knew you were a great person and sure to be a great teacher, but the idea of a semester on fairy tales, though not absurd, seemed questionable at best. I'm not truly sure how to put this in this in my proper frame of thinking as this is months past, but it seems to fall in the same vein of latin perhaps, yes perhaps that is the best example I can come up with in a few seconds. It's no longer in use, but many things have come forth from it that are still used today. My feelings on the course were never ill, and throughout the semester I've come to appreciate the information that has come of the class. At the same time, I can not say I will be any more interested in reading fairy tales. I need to figure out where this is going. You said I could write it informally professor! Sometimes if we're talking I may sound like gibberish. Most times even. Anywho, this assignment.
I didn't know what I was doing the first time around. Not for lack of getting what was going on, just the lack of doing it..I want to say an hour before it was due. I want to, but not sure, but I can bet. I didn't think it'd be worth much and I apologize for wasting your time on the mess that it was. There was an idea there though. I wanted to talk about princes. Somehow I wanted to make that work. Though I never put much thought into fairy tales, this assignment did bring up something that I'll assume was always in the back of my mind. The princes' were always the supporting characters, if not glorified extras in the stories. Though most of my previous knowledge comes from Disney movies, even delving into the actual fairy tales, they focused primarily on women and when it did bring up the male characters, it provided little motivation for their actions. Though in truth that may be said for many characters and types in fairy tales and that is something I've learned in this class. This initial thought led me to gathering information and though I first turned up empty, a slight alteration to what I was looking for brought me from motivations of a prince, to analysis of the quest and in turn, the hero. With a shrug of my shoulder I said “Yeah, this'll work” and got to it. It was honestly an interesting read through as I was intrigued by the idea of using fairy tales a therapy (bibliotherapy talked about by Duffy, references Campbell), yet at the same time, I found that comical. The way the sources I found worked off of each other was equally surprising as well and it seemed to take on a philosophical nature to it while talking about fairy tales.
All in all, I'm relatively happy with what I've done on this. Though a hate weebly because I don't understand it...okay maybe not, but the pictures thing is the bane of me.
I didn't know what to make of this class upon starting. I knew you were a great person and sure to be a great teacher, but the idea of a semester on fairy tales, though not absurd, seemed questionable at best. I'm not truly sure how to put this in this in my proper frame of thinking as this is months past, but it seems to fall in the same vein of latin perhaps, yes perhaps that is the best example I can come up with in a few seconds. It's no longer in use, but many things have come forth from it that are still used today. My feelings on the course were never ill, and throughout the semester I've come to appreciate the information that has come of the class. At the same time, I can not say I will be any more interested in reading fairy tales. I need to figure out where this is going. You said I could write it informally professor! Sometimes if we're talking I may sound like gibberish. Most times even. Anywho, this assignment.
I didn't know what I was doing the first time around. Not for lack of getting what was going on, just the lack of doing it..I want to say an hour before it was due. I want to, but not sure, but I can bet. I didn't think it'd be worth much and I apologize for wasting your time on the mess that it was. There was an idea there though. I wanted to talk about princes. Somehow I wanted to make that work. Though I never put much thought into fairy tales, this assignment did bring up something that I'll assume was always in the back of my mind. The princes' were always the supporting characters, if not glorified extras in the stories. Though most of my previous knowledge comes from Disney movies, even delving into the actual fairy tales, they focused primarily on women and when it did bring up the male characters, it provided little motivation for their actions. Though in truth that may be said for many characters and types in fairy tales and that is something I've learned in this class. This initial thought led me to gathering information and though I first turned up empty, a slight alteration to what I was looking for brought me from motivations of a prince, to analysis of the quest and in turn, the hero. With a shrug of my shoulder I said “Yeah, this'll work” and got to it. It was honestly an interesting read through as I was intrigued by the idea of using fairy tales a therapy (bibliotherapy talked about by Duffy, references Campbell), yet at the same time, I found that comical. The way the sources I found worked off of each other was equally surprising as well and it seemed to take on a philosophical nature to it while talking about fairy tales.
All in all, I'm relatively happy with what I've done on this. Though a hate weebly because I don't understand it...okay maybe not, but the pictures thing is the bane of me.