Thursday, May 15, 2008

Week 17: website

Look at the following website: www.umich.edu/~umfandsf/symbolismproject/symbolism.html/Monstrosity/intropage/homepage.html.

Or, type www.umich.edu and enter "monsters" into the search page, then find the page listed above.

There is A LOT of information on this site, including some interactive components. Share some of the pages you visited. See if you can share some of the following:

What is a taboo, and what are some taboos monsters violate?

What are the four types of monsters on this site?

How do our ideas about monsters change as we age?

What is your favorite part of the site?

Week 16: Categories of Monsters

How would you group types of monsters? Animal v. human? Machine v. creature? What are some ways you can think of to put monsters into categories? Share your ideas, then see if you can some up with some groupings as a class.