Dear Readers,
For this post I am to explain how studying myths affected how I created a myth (something like that). So here goes nothing. I felt that this was a very fun assignment. Actually, I should qualify that statement. Creating a myth was a very fun assignment. Creating the webpage and placing the myth on the webpage was terrible. And really, it wasn’t terrible because it was a dumb assignment or a laborious assignment or an unbeneficial assignment. It was mostly because I am very slow when it comes to computers and websites and things like that. I kept having a hard time trying to place the text in how I wanted it and trying to put in nice pictures how I wanted them. The whole thing was so frustrating that I just eventually said “screw it” and now my website looks dumb. But, I was very happy with my story.
Studying myths definitely helped me create my own myth because it put me in the correct state of mind. I wanted to make my myth metaphorical and epic. I wanted it to be powerful and contain substance. I wanted it to be something that was a good read and an intriguing answer to a fundamental question. How well I did that I guess is up to the reader, but I thought I did a much better job having studied other myths than I would have if I would’ve just been given a pen and told to write. Studying myths gave me a format of how myths are done and what they encompass. That was very helpful for me.
I think what I liked most about this assignment, and what I would like to take with me into the classroom, is the way this assignment allowed us to really expand our creativity. We got to be creative with not just the myth but the website as well. Now, obviously I am poor at creating the website, but I saw some other websites that looked very pleasing. I’m sure there are high school kids that are much better with computers than I am, and if they could creatively design a website that matches their myth that would be a very beneficial assignment in expanding their comprehension of literacy.
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Hi Anthony,
ReplyDeleteI definitely feel you when you say that creating the myth website was laborious. It took me a lot longer than I thought! I enjoyed it and am happy with the outcome, but it was harder than I thought. I think the hardest part was trying to figure out the images and colors that emanated the ‘feel’ of my myth.
I also realized, like you, that the story I came up with did indeed have metaphoric elements that created an epic myth, and I also agree that reading other myths first was imperative in writing my own; familiarizing myself with the structure and pattern of an existing myth enabled me to create a myth.
I do think that because we would be teaching students who are not, say, as technologically challenged as I’ve found myself to be, that this exercise will appeal to and engage them more than if they would just write up a myth in a conventional manner. Creating a myth website would also tap into a form of art (graphic art/design) that they are probably be more familiar with, enabling them to construct their myth in a comfortable, yet challenging, form.