Papers Due 5/5 and other Dorian Grey Info

As you know, your papers are due on May 5th.  The assignment is a simple one: write a 3-page response paper on the theme of imagination in the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Here is a searchable edition of Dorian Grey (the version you've read)

Here is information about the book Dorian read and re-read!

Homework for April 11 - April 25

Due Tues April 12 - Buy your copy of  Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray.  Read pages 1-12 and answer reading questions (handed out in class and available here.)

Thurs, April 14th.  Class will watch the film A Beautiful Mind.  I will be away, but Dr. Heidi Johnsen will take attendance and show you the film.  Over vacation, please write a 300 response about the film's representations of genius, insanity and madness.

Due April 25th (when we return from vacation) - Read pages 12-58 of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray.  Answer reading questions, available here.

Here are trailers for both the 1945 film version and the 2009 version.

Divergent Thinking Exercize

Here is the place to go to create a "group" version!

Videos (and a fun Quiz)

Are you a Right-Brain or Left-Brain Thinker?  Take the quiz to find out!

Video 1: Daniel Pink on What Motivates us

Video 2: Ken Robinson on Education ("Reforming Educational Paradigms")

Video 3: Ken Robinson ("Do schools Kill Creativity?")

If you want to use the subtitles for the last video, or get a written transcript of it, click here instead!

Movie Previews

Please vote in the poll to your right for one of these finalist films to be shown in class.    =>
Thanks for making such excellent reccomendations!


Beautiful Mind
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Pan's Labrynth
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Fight Club
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Library Database Scavenger Hunt

A)  "All Sorts of Pitfalls and Surprizes: Competing Views of Idealized Girlhood in Lewis Carroll's Alice Books"  by Jennifer Geer

B) "Alice, Huck, Pinocchio and the Blue Fairy: Bodies Real and Imagined" by M.L. Rosenthal

C) "Dodgeson's Dark Conceit: Evoking the Allegorical Lineage of Alice" - by Andrew Wheat

D) "How Warrior Alice Became Warrior Alice, and Why" by Kristina Aikens

E) "Dodgeson in Wonderland" by Joanna Richardson

F) "Educating Alice: The Lessons of Wonderland" by Jan Susina

G) The Philosopher's 'Alice in Wonderland' - by Roger W. Holmes

H) The Cheshire Cat: Sign of Signs - by M.S. Ashbourne

Movie Suggestions

Please recommend a movie you think would be great to see in class and explain what links to our theme it manifests.   The more complex and nuanced the themes, the better.