Photo by Mathias Lövström
Week 1: The Woods
Texts
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"Fairy Tale is Form, Form is Fairy Tale" by Kate Bernheimer (theory)
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"Little Talks" by Of Monsters and Men (music video)
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Excerpt from What It Is by Lynda Barry (comics)
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Clip from Frozen II (animation)
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Poetry by Christine Heppermann
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Poetry by Donika Kelly
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"Baba Yaga and Vasilisa the Fair," originally collected by Alexander Afanasyev, East of England Broadband Network version (fiction)
Prompts
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Make a collage or bank of images (print or digital) related to the theme of "The Woods." Here's one example.
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Write a persona poem from the point of view of the woods, write the story of a call that leads to the woods, or write a braided essay that brings together the woods and a real-life situation that has you feeling lost. You can also mix and match these prompts (a story with the woods as a narrator, etc.).