Lesson 19

Students handed in their venn diagrams from last class.

We took a break from regular class work, and watched two pieces of popular illustrated fiction. Both of these pieces directly reference the work we began the year with. After watching, we discussed:

• The ways in which conversations change over time - both in content - and in form of expression
• How allusions to the same work - within different works - may operate very differently
• Whether or not there is any merit in accessing a cannon of texts, in order to have access to a greater common cultural conversation