Geopoliticus Seminar Reflection

Starter 18

1. How have you improved during our last 4 weeks of seminar?
2. What was your favorite seminar?  Why?
3. What was your favorite seminar format (talkers vs. quiet, random groups, whole class...)?  Why? Suggestions for future seminars?

Dali Seminar Reflection

1. Poetry or prose
2. 1-2 pages, single spaced if it's prose.  If it's a poem, these guidelines are flexible.
3. Use any technique, surrealist or otherwise
4. Play with tone, setting, literary devices, techniques
5. This piece could do any of the following:
• React to the painting
• Expand on any of the themes of the painting
• Address what happened right before or after the moment in the painting
• Translate the images into words
• Take the perspective of one or more of the figures in the painting
• Other creative ideas?

IF YOU WERE ABSENT: SEMINAR MAKE UP

1 paragraph per question

Be sure to use specific details and symbols from the painting to support your answer!

1.      What is this painting saying about the world?

2.      Is Dali portraying this birth as a positive or negative thing?

3.      If Dali could repaint this today, what would the painting look like?  How would the symbolism and figures change?

4.      What about this painting do you most enjoy?  Why?

Genocide Project Clean Up

Take them home, dismantle them, or throw them away.  They can't stay here!

DP Update

For each seminar, you need an image and your seminar reflection.

1. Jihad vs. McWorld (use your poster as the image)
2. Being Peace (find an image)
3. The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas (find an image)
4. Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth Of A New Man (use the painting as the image)

HWK: Finish and print your seminar reflection.  Due Friday, start of class.  If you will be gone on Friday, email it to Lori.  If you were absent, same thing applies for the seminar make up.