9/10/19 Adam Bougaev Period 8

Adam Bougaev 9/10/2019 Modern Mythology 2020 Hi there! My name is Adam Bougaev from 8 th Period Modern Mythology class, and we are seniors of the class of 2020! Today is Tuesday, September 10, 2019, and I must say, we had quite an interesting lesson for Mythology today, and while it was unconventional, it was also quite interesting and informative We started off class with our teacher putting on a TED talk that we didn’t finish the day prior and finished it off. It was a pretty interesting video talking about how all forms of colloquial media, such as the ever-popular internet meme, are forms of folklore. I, personally, found it to be a very convincing argument, and it’s something worth considering. Every internet meme, every inside joke you text to your friends, is a little piece of folklore, and folklore as the whole is the best way to assess a culture of a time. It's also worth noting that we’ll be looking at folklore over the year (I mean, it IS a mythology class), so is this a possible foreshadowing? I guess we’ll just have to wait and find out! I, personally, think we’ll be doing some culture analysis through the literature we’ll be reading. After that, we moved on to a more pressing matter: The Summer Reading Project. Initially, I felt concerned, as many school projects are long and insufferable. This project, though, was a bit different. It was a group project in which we had to design a book cover illustrating a prequel to a book we had read over the summer, called The Road by Cormac McCarthy. It’s a post-apocalyptic story about a father a child wandering, scavenging for any resources left to keep them alive in a dead world, where the cause of the scenario is never confirmed. I’ll tell you that my team had a tough time deciding what our cover would be about. We were tasked with coming up with one backstory to explain the chaos, but our team managed quite a few theories. Of the bunch, the most prominent theories in my mind were that of a “Judgement Day”, a nuclear war, and a huge volcanic eruption. The eruption, in my head, was the soundest theory as it explained the ash mentioned repeatedly in the story.