Final test material

-group presentations

-individual presentations

-Calasso chapter 12

-7 Stages of the Bible according to Northrop Frye

Here are my notes on individual presentations from Friday

1. Aspen started with a math problem: 12 months in a year minus 3 months of winter equal 9 months, which is the time of pregnancy. She used this as proof for the equation of woman=nature=garden and the story of Persephone who ate pomegranite seeds and got pregnant. She also used the Bible book Song of Solomon, where a woman comes into fertility just as the garden comes into its natural fertility. This is why women are fickle and overly emotional, or constantly changing.

2. Maggi's presentation was about knowledge in the Bible. "Read my paper to find out!" okay

3. Claire said she loves reading about women in the Bible, especially Ruth because that was her Grandma's name. She showed the class a slide show of pictures and sayingsfrom the book of Ruth.

4. Serena played a fill in the blank game to illustrate the negative way men treat women in the Bible

5. Acadia talked about parables and that they "turn our expectations upside down." She said that there are "parable-type moments" in everyone's life when the exact opposite of what we expect to happen happens.

6. Ruth's "old lady name" has bothered her for years until she read the story of Ruth in this class and began to appreciate it.

7. Abdul is an exchange student, and this was the first time reading this kind of lit. He thought the Classical tradition was all about imagination, and that the Biblical tradition is similar to the Koranic tradition of "the revealed word of God."

8. Chrissie did a displacement of the story of Esther, which she considered close to our modern TV show "The Bachelor." God should be number one, screw material goods.

10. Kelly discussed memorization of biblical passages and the techniques used.

11. Laura wrote her paper on the reasons we may believe more in biblical traditions than clssical.

12. Rachel has a conservative and a liberal parent. Whe studied the effects of fear.

13. John tackled the political and social problem that women are still treated unequally and quoted Corinthians

14. Collin quoted page 243 in Calasso about time and light.

15. Jillian wrote wrote a very person essay concerning her faith. Jillian said that the story she saw as the best example of good faith is that of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego which helped her realize the importance of her faith.