masterpiece academy final question

When the last masterpiece has been presented, this is the question I will ask you to write on for your final reflection.  Please start a post or notes that will help you remember what's important.
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For the rest of our semester, the Masterpiece Academy will be your showcase.  As you reflect on this experience, and your overall experience in the Open-Source Learning Academy pilot this semester, please address the following questions in a traditional MLA-style essay.  (You will scan and post the paper to your blog.) Then post about it to your blog in any medium (music, pictures, video, animation, [?]) that brings your thesis to life.  (You may embed the original paper if you can't think of a better way to communicate.)

Please Note: Everything on the traditional paper assignment counts.  Please proofread and/or ask a friend or relative to help with organization, flow, and mechanics (capitalization, punctuation, spelling, grammar, MLA style, e.g.)

PLEASE ALSO NOTE: By our mutual agreement (during our zoom meeting on June 2), this paper will be due on your blogs by 5:00 PM PDT on Thursday, June 10.


Masterpiece Academy Question

Montaigne ended his essay "Of The Education of Children" this way:

To return to my subject, there is nothing like alluring the appetite and affections; otherwise you make nothing but so many asses laden with books; by dint of the lash, you give them their pocketful of learning to keep; whereas, to do well you should not only lodge it with them, but make them espouse it. (1580)

The word espouse originally meant "to marry" and took on connotations like "embrace," "love," and "advocate."  Have you espoused learning?  Explain your growth in this course via a narrative that portrays you as the dynamic protagonist in your own Bildungsroman.  Please include the following elements.

ELEMENT 1: You have been treated as colleagues and you have been given a great deal of choice in this course; this represents a high level of trust.  Did you and the others deserve it?  Earn it?  Honor it? 

ELEMENT 2: Have you re/connected with a passion that drives you?  If so, how will you continue your learning?  If not, how will you proceed?

ELEMENT 3: [Something about our work together this semester that made you laugh out loud.]

ELEMENT 4:  A unifying theme that runs through a minimum of five (5) presentations; a quality of the content, or the speakers, or their communication techniques that strikes you as something important that we have in common.  Please illustrate/support your point with specific examples from the presentations.

ELEMENT 5: Evaluate whether you completed the hero's journey.  Are you a hero?  To what extent did you respond to the call of adventure?  Did you find a mentor, conquer a challenge, and return enlightened?

ELEMENT 6: For old time's sake (you can take the boy out of English/ but you can't take English out of the boy), sneak in a literary technique.  Don't make a big deal out of it.  I'll know it's there.