Scribe Notes 8/19

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Agenda
1. Journal Entry #2
2. Writing with Emotion: mood description write

HW: vocab exercise 3; memoir project: first ten due next Monday; finish writing mood description

The journal entry on the board was the following quote, to which we had to respond:
"For now we see through a glass, darkly, but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known." We wrote for 10 minutes on what this quote from the Corinthians meant, and we discussed the following concepts:
-- our world-view is the "glass" we look through, and so what we perceive is affected by that
-- the "glass" is our identity and personality, and we interpret our experiences through it
-- the "glass" is our uncertainty about God and the Hereafter, but on the Day of Judgment,
we will finally be "face to face" with who we really are (believers, hypocrites, disbelievers)
We compared this quote to the common phrase "through rose-colored lens", which means looking at what happens in an overly optimistic, romantic way.

Then we talked about how our mood does cloud our perception of events. We experimented with this by the following activity:
Each student was assigned a MOOD and a WEATHER: rain/happy, rain/sad, sunny/happy, sunny/sad, sunny/angry. The students with the same weather sat together to decide what the setting would be. Then each student had to write a description of what was happening and what they were feeling based on that mood.
We finished this up for homework.