Hey there true believers,
The actual creation and ability to use creativity in a topic I take interest in made me actually want to complete the assignment. This assignment differs from the study of substantial concrete myth because educational myth is mostly put in terms that are not easily understood. It gave me a hands-on opportunity to understand the main principles of mythological writing. The assignment gave me a chance to take those main principles of a creation myth and use them in contemporary terms and language. This ability to use contemporary ideals and language also gave me the ability to decode the literature of past myth writers and encode literature for a new generation of thinkers and readers that may not completely understand archaic principles. Writing this creation myth got me to think about what a writer could have been inspired by or what goals they wanted to achieve upon writing their work.
I learned that the ability to decipher a foreign and antiquated form of literature is possible for a class to complete. The students’ ability to take this past form of literature and update it in terms that they can understand will give them the skills to do such things in other forms of life and learning. Furthermore, this ability will not only aide a classroom of high school students in their search for perception of meaning and ability to create literature but it will also help them in their research in other forms of study (mathematics, theater and other forms of expressions).
The expression of our knowledge about a particular myth (creation, male divine, female divine, and trickster) through a presentation or lesson gave me the ability to comprehend the literature more since I had to read and speak about it. The several methods of deciphering and explaining a certain myth gave me the confidence to explain the intricacies of the creation myth and to make a piece of literature of my own.
-jacob.
1998
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Well, Jacob, you bring up a good point about how myths are a part of foreign literture. I didn't see myths as foreign literature and you made a very valid point. I made a comment on my own blog about the idea of learning about the values of different cultures through myths which relate some what with your realtions with foreign literature. I think that this assignment is a good way to revamp the interest of literature in students.
I had completly forgotten that we had to make a presentation about our particular myth type. This part,i think, was the most daunting for me. Like i commented on my blog, myths are really not my thing. So trying to present to the class the central points of a particular type of myth was hard. However, looking back on it, it certainly does help to have that as experience in explainging an often over complicated myth. By doing this excerise i know now which way is more effective in presenting a myth. However, i really am wary of using the presentation as part of my myth presentation with my students. It is one thing to create a myth from your own creativity, and completely another to teach a whole calss, or enlighten a class, on a myth itself. It woked for us, but i dont know if it would work for them
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