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Blog Post No. 3: Fact, Myth, or Legend?

Folktales and fairytales have classified notions of myths throughout history. Parents and leaders have often told their children and young adults stories of legends and myths in order to explain the ever changing world around them. However, what classifies a myth? What can myths teach us in a modern day world where everything can truly be explained? Welcome to Tuesday’s with Melanie! This week I wish to take the time to uncover how the teachings of myths and legends can aid and enhance the teaching experience for a young generation that has technology and information at their fingertips. Historically, myths have always been used to explain the things that we can not explain. Yet people, like the Greeks, not only used myth to explain the unexplainable but to give people the most important thing of all in this lifetime, hope. Myths give people hope. It allows them to look to something for questions and answers to things that they find uncertain within this lifetime. In my own experience,...
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Blog No. 2: To Poet or To Poetry?

To poet or poetry, to art or artist? I have always had a great love for poetry. As a person that was introduced to poetry at a very early age, I have found a great respect and love for the craft. While it is very easy to marvel at Shakespeare’s Sonnets or Byron’s love poems, it is a very different thing entirely to craft poetry. Welcome to Tuesday’s with Melanie! This week let’s take the time to reflect on the poetry process and how much difference can be found in creation and marveling at the craft. The process of crafting poetry is deeply personal and something that should not be taken lightly. It’s truly a reflection of how you view the world around you and how you find meaning in love, sadness, and emotions you really can’t put a label to. I found it very easy to critique the work of other poets. Perhaps I should have not taken that job ever so lightly. The idea of critiquing somebody else’s emotions is easy for us, but incredibly vulnerable to the poet themselves. After crafting m...
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Blog No. 1: Me & The Media

Welcome to Tuesday's with Melanie! As an English Literature Major, I adore the humanities. Currently the 21st-century poses a lot of different challenges to the humanities and arts. However, firstly, allow me to introduce myself. I am a California native, growing up in the San Fernando Valley. I grew up around the arts. My parents were very much lovers of the humanities. Looking back at my childhood, I recall fond memories of days at the theatre, art museums, reading literature, and exposure to all types of music. While I consider myself a lover of many things, I am obsessed with my orange cat. I have an orange cat named Morrison, named after Jim Morrison the lead singer of The Doors. Circling back to the notion of media in education, teaching and technology in the modern day go hand in hand. I don’t personally aspire to be a teacher, but I have so much appreciation for what my personal high school teachers and my college professors have taught me. I have had the privilege of havin...
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