Calling all Tokrophers!

Right, so we are very lucky, although we have lost another fellow traveller on the way to enlightenment, we have gained two!!! Pippa and Phil will be joining us in September and we're so glad to have them along. What I need from all you lovelies is to:
1. I need a group to volunteer to take Phil into your midst for the Presentation
2. I need a study buddy group to take in Pippa to help her along with the task of doing her presentation solo. (She needs people to bounce ideas off of).

Brilliant, so as a little nudge - you are to work on 2 things over the summer, your presentations and your essays. Priority one is the essay as your first draft is due the first week back. Priority two is to get with your presentation group and get planning/researching/developing how you're going to tackle this badboy head on and defeat it! Hoo-ah (as Sergeant Mo would say)! Third priority is to do something on your holidays that lets you take in the beauty of the world - this is important as we will be discussing aesthetics when we return - so take the time to watch a sunset, or stare at the night sky and wonder if there is a little green man(woman) staring back through the cosmos towards earth and wondering if there is a little naked ape staring back at them - beautiful!

TTFN

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

To introduce the Arts as an area of knowledge, I'd like you to pontificate on the following:

1. What is art?

2. Can it be a painting, play, theatre, music, poetry, literature, photography?

3. Where do we draw the line? (What is art to one, may not be to another)

4. Can you define what is a ‘work of art’?

5. What do you expect to see in art?


6. What do you think is the purpose of art?

7. What is truth in art?

We're going to leave art as a little appetiser here. In class next Thursday I'd like you to bring in your choices for presentations and for essays. We're going to spend the next lesson researching for both.

TTFN