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[eleneta]

give me a good reason why I should teach little people about Persephone and pomegranates.

(I have to write a lesson plan on ANYTHING for tomorrow)

EDIT: "Zeus is responsible for AIDS. Everywhere". -Will

(And Sirkka and I sang obnoxious musical songs at fencing and nearly got ourselves skewered)
Also: I won my first electric bout yesterday :

Comments

[eleneta]

but... isn't it more don't pick the pretty flowers?

[zorpisuttle]

Spring is coming!

[eleneta]

...the goose is getting fat. Please put a penny in the old man's hat...

oh. right. that's christmas...

[lokogato]

POMEGRANATES ARE DELICIOUS.

[eleneta]

YES

[bluefate]

Can you imagine a world where we have lost our myths, where little children grow up to be ignorant of allusions ( ♥ ); why shouldn't they be given the opportunity to discover a love of stories?

(Is the question 'do I really have to teach?' or 'do I really have to teach this?' or 'I need a good excuse to teach this, what d'ya got?')

[eleneta]

the third :)

[bluefate]

I knew a guy in high school whose parents restricted him to the point where they didn't watch tv, he didn't have a Snickers bar until he was 12, and he didn't know any fairy tales. Allusion to "Disney" fairy tale movies passed him by.
This makes me very sad.

Good luck on your teaching.

[eleneta]

thank you :) this is mostly a hypothetical project - but I do believe that the study of myths, the stories that back up a culture, are immensely important. Both what they tell us about the culture, and what they show us about our own. and as we get fewer and fewer languages - what's going to happen to the cultures that were attached to them? are they just going to disappear? but - like we learn from history, don't we also have a need to learn from myths?

[risu_chan14]

whether or not they understand persephone, pomegranates are the healthiest food in the solar system and will give them super powers

[eleneta]

and yay for super powers!