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These past few weeks we have been learning about myths, creating presentations and finally creating our own myth and website. Compared to learning about myths, I struggled more with creating my own myth because I felt like my prompt did not answer a fundamental question but rather an overall question about trends, which can still be important because of the amount of damage clothing trends have on the world, but still I struggled to create a background story. Additionally, it was hard to create a believable myth because most myths we learn about have been around for years which makes them sound a lot more truthful. Teaching about myths, on the other hand, was simpler because I was confident in the category we were teaching. While it was easy to teach a class of college students who are majoring in English, I am aware that in a classroom setting there are a variety of students that learn differently and have different interests, which only shows me how prepared I have to be when I am teaching any subject. Preparing our group presentation offered insight on how creative presentations have to be, in order to keep a classroom engaged and interested regardless of how boring it might seem to some students.
Learning about myths was not difficult because the myths we have been taught since childhood answers a fundamental human question that leads to an understanding of humans. (How was earth created? Where do we come from? Does sitting too close to the television make us blind?) Learning about mythical archetypes helped my understanding because these archetypes come across in most stories/movies and are relatable across different cultures. Overall, my experience creating a myth was difficult because I was trying to make my myth sound believable while making it sound mystical and not like a current event going on in the world. Studying myths on the other hand is easier because they answer a question that betters your understanding of the world. This experience has given me a better understanding of the different types of myths and how each category leads to different understandings, while the creation of myths calls for further exploration of humans and their questions.
When creating my myth, I wanted to talk about specific trends that are popularized by social media, only to become another fast fashion trend that ruins the earth. I gave the "VSCO era" a creator and created an origin story that helps us understand where the trend came from and why it is important to remember.
My Myth: The Rise and Fall Of VSCO Girls
Hello Antonieta. I loved your analysis of myths! I think that part of the difficulty in creating myths is the fact that we have to account for history, culture, and ideologies. While your myth focused on a silly subject it still had to include all of those things. I think that the creative critical thinking part of creating myths is what makes them so difficult to make. I think that as educators we are so used to analyzing and breaking down information to teach it in a digestible and understandable format that we forget that creativity is a resource we can use for our students. I think that studying myths is easier for us as it is the analysis of information rather then the creation of information. I think that myths answering a fundamental question is pretty is also an added layer of difficulty. I think explaining why a phenomenon occurs and making it believable is part of the challenge. I think the hardest part of creating a myth is believability. There are myths in existence that already answer fundamental human questions, such why we have a sea, sky, and underworld. Those are three realms that the Greeks believed to be the domains of the gods, Poseidon, Zeus, and Hades. I think every myth is up to interpretation and that includes the ones we create. Myths explain natural phenomena through the lens of an author and how that author incorporates those ideas is as subjective as any piece of art. -Rogelio Quiroga
ReplyDeleteHello Antonieta, it is difficult to think about myths way better than to think about truths. I do believe that within the time that we have performed these projects and activities, it's clear that myths can be a truth or a lie, it is never set in stone. Additionally, I do believe that creating a myth can be justified by ones own means of discovery, we can implicate further creation of a myth, but further instance would only lead to more questions than answers. We always look at ourselves and never ask the bigger questions such as: Why does this myth have to be created in the first place? Are we in synchronization that so many layers have to be added in order to gain new meaning to truth? Are we stuck in the idealism that change can only happen with one person, or a collaboration of them? We need to think more outside the box when it comes to creating myths in general, or else the current meaning won't prove as effective later on, demand change in value and change in direction of the current trope.
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