Course Closure

Snaps to all students who completed their personal vampire assignments. Your vampire images were creative and provocative. Too cool! You have melded your personal style with the images of folklore, fiction, and film in your vamps. May they live throughout eternity as you have created them.

Reading Schedule for Dracula

Dracula Reading Schedule
Third Quarter 2008-09

Reading assignments are for the afternoon and evening of the dates noted. Students are expected to have read the pages for the following class period to ensure strong discussion.

F 2/20 p. 0-56

M 2/23 p. 57-79
T 2/24 p. 80-124
W 2/25 p. 125-152 / Group Work #1 due
R 2/26 Parent Confs.
F 2/27 p. 152-203

M 3/2 p. 203-230
T 3/3 p. 231-275
W 3/4 catch up
R 3/5 p. 276-290 / Group Work #2 due
F 3/6 p. 291-305

M 3/9 p. 306-318
T 3/10 p. 319-333
W 3/11 catch up
R 3/12 p. 334-347
F 3/13 p. 348-363

Closure of Text for Tuesday 3/17 / Individual Chapter Artifact Assignment #3 due

Old World Vampirism Curiosity Questions

Students were curious about the following elements of vampire mythology:

• Why did Lilith get excluded from the Bible but was included in the Talmud?
• Why were vampires believed to be obsessive compulsive in Transylvanian folklore?
• Why does a large black dog with a painted set of eyes on its forehead repel a vampire?
• Did the Roman interpretation of the vampire stem from conflicts with the indigenous, barbarian European tribes (i.e., the Gauls)?
• If one was targeted as a living vampire in his/her community, did they then lead an isolated existence?
• What is it about human nature that causes us to create blood-sucking and often immortal beings?
• How do historical examples of individuals bathing in human blood align or contrast with Deuteronomy 12:33 ("The blood is the life.")?
• Why does one need to bury a vampire at a crossroads to induce a "final" death?

What Are We Doing Today? February 16 - 20

Week Four Agenda

• M -- Work Time on Polidori
• T -- Share and Discuss Polidori vocab and "Guardian Warnings"
• W -- Background on Bram Stoker's Dracula
  
• R -- Introduce Groups and Group Assignment /distribute books /Reading time
  
• F -- Reading time (read to page 56 for Monday)

What are we doing today?

Week Three Agenda -- Feb. 9 - 13

• Monday -- Murnau's Nosferatu
• Tuesday --Murnau's Nosferatu / discussion of film images
  
• Wed. -- The Gothic tradition in literature
• Thursday -- Polidori's "The Vampyre"
• Friday -- Polidori's "The Vampyre"

What Are We Doing Today?

Monday, Feb. 2 -- Share homework -- jigsaw reading on Mythological vampires

Tuesday, Feb. 3 -- finish share vampire mythology, McNally Ch. 10

Wednesday, Feb. 4 -- Discuss McNally ch. 10

Thursday, Feb. 5 -- McNally ch. 3 "The Historical Dracula"

Friday, Feb. 6 -- Discussion; Attendance&Participation checks

Week One -- January 27 - 30

What are we doing this week?

Tuesday, Jan. 27 - Course Guidelines, Info Forms, Goals Pages
**You need a notebook for this course. Bring it ASAP.

Wednesday, Jan 28 -- Collect Goals Pgs., Vampire Characteristics Brainstorm

Thursday, Jan. 29 -- Vampire Folklore and Myth Video (A&E)

Friday, Jan. 30 -- Finish video & Journal Entry, Read cultural folklore chapter HW
(Assignment Journal on Cultural Folklore due on Monday)