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I wish I could teach like Matt Groening. I was just watching the First Tree House of Horror from The Simpsons. Just the part where Bart is The Raven with a Bart head, and Homer is the speaker of the famous poem who fell asleep (snoring, of course) with a book on his belly. Perfect!
It made me realize that making that cartoon required such a deep understanding of the poem AND his audience in addition to a mastery of illustration, storytelling, and technological stuff that I really am in awe. What he does is way better than what I do. And yet, when some teachers walk by my classroom and see The Simpsons on my TV, they act disgusted.
They wish they were Matt Groening.
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1 Andrew // Oct 10, 2007 at 1:51 am
Nevermooore. Nevermoooore.
I looooove that episode and you’re 100% dead on with this post. It’s unbelievably entertaining and way more enticing then someone just blandly reading it.
2 Taylor // Oct 10, 2007 at 7:15 pm
I love to show that after we’ve read the poem, but I’m starting to think I should “sandwich” it and show it both before and after. I assumed they’d enjoy it more after they understood the poem, but maybe the Simpsons could make them more interested in reading it as well. That’s what happens to me! I see something in a movie or on TV (or another blog) and I say, “what does that mean?” and then my curiosity is tapped, and I start looking.
3 Taylor // Oct 10, 2007 at 7:16 pm
And who better to read “the Raven” than James Earl Jones?
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