notes for March 27, 2009

Read the end of Chapter 5 in Ong

Does everything need to be organized and just so?
head and/or the introduction of the paper

body of the paper

end/butt/tail/conclusion of the paper

prompts for beginning readers and writers to end with "in conclusion."

Everything is under construction

Thunderbolt: changer of things along with lightning

1. Zeus

2. Atmosphere

3. last but most important: Harry Potter

Museum: MUSE-ing room

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Ong page 203

notes for March 25, 2009

term paper has to have these two words in the title: "Oral" and "Tradition"
start presenting after the April 10 holiday
By Monday, we should have our thesis thought out and the topic of our paper to tell Dr. Sexson

Describe memory theater online

Page 136 in Ong

The question was brought up in class on whether an outline can be a memory theater. I think that it is an unusual memory theater, but if it works for you, why not? It gives you a framework to work with and gives you memory prompters. I think it works for a memory theater and gives you the chance for a very organized memory palace. Didn't we talk about house-keeping?

notes for March 23, 2009

"Remembering Finnegan"- an essay that we should read!
Another memory theater presentation:
Chris McCann: people of the church (rabbi)
Sutter: first lines/ending lines of novels
WOW! that was incredible!

TIME TO BEGIN YOUR TERM PAPER AND GROUP WORK!

Watch "Synecdoche, New York"
ultimate memory theater is the universe
To try to encompass all (New York with a warehouse that has New York with a warehouse that has New York with a warehouse and so on) would be a task that would be never-ending and trivial. A person would be there for the rest of their life, trying to make something that is endless.
Intertextuality

notes for March 13, 2009

Continuation of Memory Theaters Day 3 blog:

the how of memory systems and theaters:
WHAT IS THE MAGIC? WHERE IS THE "MAGICAL HAT AND BUNNY?"

Touch:
actual object
body parts as memory theater

Sight:
around the house (walking- before to memorize and during to reinstill the memory)
places (going in a pattern- east to west)
people (using their images as a memory palace)

Categories:
using truth, food, ... as basis for memory system

memory theaters- day 3

Steve again: songs of the '90s
Kate: architecture sites and projects
Kari: films

The memory theaters were incredible to watch. Dr. Sexson mentioned that we would see the person presenting but they would not be there. That was very true. Watching a few people as they presented showed me that their minds were completely in another place. They were there but just physically. They were where their memory palace was- unfocused on anything but the task at hand of remembering.

memory theaters- day 2

Shannon: Montana towns
Lisa: places to see before you die
William: people Dante meets in the Inferno
Erin: ski resorts
John: dog breeds
Melissa: places to see before you die
Carly: gods and goddesses
Nick: birds
Jeff: banks that failed- FDIC list
Zach: great things about life
Zach: top nonfiction novels
Brandon: bands/musical artists that he and his father love
Ben: Ben Franklin quotes
me: people who live around me in my "neighborhood"
comic book characters

memory theaters- day 1

Brianne: governors
Parker: independent films
Steve: songs of the '90s
Janna: spices
Rich: parts of the brain and nervous system
Joan: science fiction novels
Danielle: Children's books
Lisa: constellations
Charlie: books of the Bible
Tae: rules of grammar
Kyle: top guitarists
Kayla: Shakespeare characters
James: drinking games
Helena: composers
Robert: Japanese gods and goddesses