The Herd is on the Move

Yes. . .the herd has assembled.

Minute Man minutiae from today's meeting.

• After a raucous initial auctioning off of the reading list, we're all posting our current spoils in hopes of distributing more equally. If you're really passionate about something, a four-way rock, paper, scissors, shooters duel (quadruel?) can be arranged.
• We compiled a list of works to contribute collectively to, and we figured we'd start with those first (rather than individual responsibilities) since we're all busy bees in the hive of teaching philosophizing and, oh, paper-writing.
• Our inaugural trial is. . . Jane's Emma and/or Pride and Prejudice scheduled for 7p.m. at Aba-G's hizzle in da Fort next Monday, April 11. Lo-Ra has magnanimously volunteered to make scones, and J-Ho is bringing teapotz with tea.
• To-Do List: Read an article or bring some kind of supplementary material related to Jane, invite Meghan and Andrew into our herd, scoop up niblets 'n novels to claim for your homestead from the abandoned wagons of everyone's postings/offerings below.

• Other future collaborative efforts include: WHITMAN, the SHAKE, JOYCE, POE, YEATS, AUDEN, T.S. ELIOT, and FROSTy.  

• We thought it best to work thematically rather than chronologically, and to make up for that, have everyone type up a little handout on a time period or genre--nothing monstrous--just mine the ore from our collective classes we've taken to compile nuts 'n bolts about periods.

• Regarding theory, we figured we could do a review of theoretical approaches closer to exam time but not heavily focus on for now.

• Possible *educational* theme parties (so far) include:  "Summer Film Festival"--aka, watching literary films and enacting the long-awaited Jane Austen Drinking Game, "Wooulf Night"--From Beo to Virginia, "Irish Fest"--gettin' jiggy with Yeats, Joyce, and Jameson (to name a few), and Caribbean Carnival (to follow something especially solemn and morose. Bleak House, perhaps).

• Also, we need a name. But not a forced name. An organically-percolated-emerged-cropped up-sort of name. Keep your eyes and ears peeled for one.

(Heretofore humbly submitted initially by jho. Feel free to edit and add as needed. I'll post the items still up for grabs in a new post, and feel free to add your own individual lists and what you'd be willing to give up there, too). 

And now, for a moment of silence to contemplate the fast from pedagogo this week. . .