Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Pruyn's Seminar Halloween Special (10/31/16)

Seminar Log Halloween Special
(Smells like readings.)

1:15 Start of Kim’s Lecture

1:16: Private Free Write

1:19: Focused Free Write
What is Solitude and Is It A Good Thing?
  • Person isolates themselves. Person gives themselves time to get together (Venecia)
  • Solitude is a good thing in moderation (Kaila & Antoine)
  • Being in solitude is a bad thing and can help you with your mistakes (Isaiah)

1:24: Active Reading to Ode on Solitude [130]
  • Boring because possibly talking about a farm (DaShanae)
  • Things that would lead to being a loner (Isaiah)
  • Enjoying solitude and living the way things are (Kim)
    • Content with dying alone
  • Wrote the poem when he was 12 years old (Kim)
    • Many children pick on people with disabilities (Tamia)
    • Morbid for a 12-year-old, didn’t expect it from a child but an old man instead (Ms. Pruyn)
Opinions?
  • Enjoys being in solitude and enjoys the things around him (Tamia)
  • Finds innocence and peace (Isaiah)

Why?
  • Someone having defects is seen as scary and no one wants them around (Isaiah)
  • Connection to Hunchback of Notre Dame [Published in 1831] (DaShanae)
  • Most people didn’t defend living in the country (Ms. Pruyn)
  • A way to soothe his force of solitude (Isaiah)
  • People with disabilities are accepted now, but still keeps a distance
  • Be in solitude but manage it as well (Kim)
  • Does knowing the background of the poet changes your view on the poem?
    • Becomes personal at the end of the poem (Jawan)

Was It A Way to Deal With The Situation
  • Finding a way to deal with it (Juwan)
  • By being alone, he had no one to be around and was an event (Tamia)

1:42 Privacy by C.D. Wright
  • Not respecting other people’s privacy (Venecia)
  • Personification of the poem (DaShanae)
  • When someone walks in, they want to know more about that person (Isaiah)
  • Talking about the nature of privacy (Kylar)
  • Brought a train of thought out (Kim)
  • Stream of consciousness (DaShanae)
  • About a woman dying, each section alluded to it (Kim)

How Does The Poem Connect to The Title
  • Does connect because when a family member dies, the family or close friends need their privacy (Alex)
  • Look through a glass dress and violates a person’s privacy (Isaiah)
  • Focuses on the moments before death, seen as the ultimate privacy (Ms. Pruyn)
  • “Cake” (Dashanae)
2:00 ~End of Kim’s Lecture ~

2:13: Free Write Loop
  • Privacy is violated every day, and in ways we allow consequences to happen (Alex)

“Black America’s State of Surveillance”
  • Black people’s privacy is invaded because of their skin (Venecia)
“Deep in the Swamps, Archaeologists Are Finding How Fugitive Slaves Kept Their Freedom”
  • Leadership emerged in the communities (Venecia)
  • After the Haitian Revolution. When they arrived in Louisiana, they made up their own independence (Christina)
  • Swamps are usually found in the swamp (DaShanae)
  • Just because there’s no written history, doesn't mean it shouldn’t be ignored (Kylar)
  • How limited history can be (Jawan)
  • Rather have mosquitoes than lashes on your back (DaShanae)
  • Keep mind intact, you’d still have privacy in your mind (Isaiah)
    • Is it worth risking your life if you still have your mental privacy?

History of Louisiana
  • French Quarter started off as a fort and everything else was mostly swamp (Christina)
  • Everyone else would live around the edges. (Venecia)
  • Slaves built the French Quarter (Christina and Antoine)

The rest continued into a debate. If I missed anything, please comment below.

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