On Showing Firefly at School... by GorramZero

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On Showing Firefly at School...

POSTED BY: GORRAMZERO
UPDATED: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 17:53
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Saturday, August 26, 2006 10:52 AM

Howdy.

I'm trying to put plans together for showing Firefly for an entire week at College of DuPage, as backed by the sci-fi/fantasy club. The idea is basically to introduce a whole bundle of folk to Firefly and Serenity.

Plans and such are all laid out, but I'm wonderin'... how would I get permission to show Firefly in a public setting? We wouldn't be making any money, so it's theoretically O.K.... but we're also not technically using it for educational purposes. Technically.

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Sunday, August 27, 2006 6:01 AM

CYBERSNARK

Well, if you have courses in literary/srtistic criticism, you could follow-up each showing with a round-table discussion of the stylistic, artistic, and linguistic choices inherent in the storytelling. There's your educational purpose. It'd also serve to pull in English majors, Language majors, and the "culture snobs" who might look down on the sci-fi/fantasy club.

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Sunday, August 27, 2006 1:23 PM

CAITE

I've been trying to think of a way to use it too! I am a high school English teacher, and this year I'll be teaching Freshman, Seniors, and Newswriting.

Freshman curriculum includes: Romeo and Juliet, Of Mice and Men, and The Odyssey. They also study the various elements of literature (plot, characterization, etc).

Senior curriculum includes: Lord of the Flies, Night, and Hamlet.

Any suggestions?

The Long Lost Caitlin

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Sunday, August 27, 2006 1:28 PM

LISSA37

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Originally posted by Caite:
I've been trying to think of a way to use it too! I am a high school English teacher, and this year I'll be teaching Freshman, Seniors, and Newswriting.

Freshman curriculum includes: Romeo and Juliet, Of Mice and Men, and The Odyssey. They also study the various elements of literature (plot, characterization, etc).

Senior curriculum includes: Lord of the Flies, Night, and Hamlet.

Any suggestions?

The Long Lost Caitlin

As a student whose favorite class is English, I can easily say you would be one of my favorite teachers ever if you used Firefly and I were in your class. My perosonal recommendation? Use it for the characterization part. Firefly is an excellent example of that. I'm not sure how you get around the fact that it isn't actually "literature", though... perhaps "too bad"?

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Monday, August 28, 2006 5:06 AM

CYBERSNARK

We study Shakespeare as literature, and he was a scriptwriter.

AFAIC, literature = stories. However they're presented, all forms of storytelling draw on the same basic elements.

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Monday, August 28, 2006 5:09 AM

WHOOPS

Sounds like a shiny idea

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Makes her a home." Mal

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Monday, August 28, 2006 5:13 AM

MSG

Caite- I have a whole set of lessons using clips from Firefly to teach social skills and to teach hero/anti-hero, and ( my favorite) point of view in persuasive essay. If you pm me and give me an email, I can send them to you:)

I choose to rise instead of fall- U2

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Monday, August 28, 2006 7:36 AM

CYBERSNARK

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Caite- I have a whole set of lessons using clips from Firefly to teach social skills

Do you have the Jayne/Simon exchange about spit-cleaning stuff at the table while people are eating?

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Monday, August 28, 2006 4:56 PM

CAITE

Any lessons you want to share can be sent to ckurvink@hlpusd.k12.ca.us.

Thanks!

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Monday, August 28, 2006 5:44 PM

MIRAMEL

Caite, where do you teach? 'cause you just outlined exactly what we did as freshman, except swap the odyssey for night.

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Monday, August 28, 2006 6:03 PM

JPSTARGAZER

Nice, a Dune fan. Lynch or Mini? Eh, maybe this thread isn't the place for that.

Anyways, I remember in high school, my teacher showed "Empire Strikes Back" in mythology as an example of modern mythology and mythological archetypes. So I think it's fair to show Firefly in some similar context. I would say in a US History class discussing the colonization of N. America or for Manifest Destiny, since Firefly has a similar flavor with the settlers on the border planets. And of course there's the whole American Civil War thing, considering that's kinda how Joss got the idea for FF in the first place.

As far as using FF for an English/Literature aspect, those of you who are more skilled in that area than myself (sorry, math and science person) have come up with many great reasons to show FF. I know someone mentioned in another thread that "Safe" has a Crucible aspect to it...so there's that.

I guess you could show it in a women's studies class, since FF has some realy strong and interesting female characters, once again because of Joss' background.

That's all I've got...

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Tuesday, August 29, 2006 5:53 PM

MIRAMEL

i suppose this isn't the thread, but real quick, i gotta say imo mini did a MUCH better job of ah... "captureing the essence" (my god, i'm such a hypocrit- if someone said that about the lotr movies, i'd cut them down for there heresay.). anyway i just think the lynch version was so concerned w/ details, they forgot to stay true to, oh, the plot? whereas although there are certainly things w/ the mini that i take issue with (thufer, for one) i think it generally got the messege across. plus, cooler looking crysknifes, imo :P

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