[Cross-posted to homeschooling and Buffy groups]

Hi everybody,

I am resuming homeschooling my 16 y.o. daughter this fall after she has
spent a couple of years in high school. We have come up with the idea of
watching an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer each day and discussing it.
We both enjoy the show and it is full of literary and cultural allusions.
I'm thinking it will give her a chance to develop her research skills in a
really fun way.

I haven't been posting to the Buffy group for a long time, but I remember
seeing some mention of scholarly works regarding Buffy. Could somebody
please tell me about these or point me to a url about it?

Homeschoolers, any suggestions about this plan? I did something like this
with Monty Python with my oldest son some years ago and was pleased with
it. (Marty - I got your email. Thanks for thinking of us.)

--
Jayne

"Jayne Kulikauskas" wrote on Wed, 30 Aug 2006 18:22:29 -0400:


http://www.amazon.com/Buffy-Vampire...r/dp/0812695313


Critiquing popular culture is always interesting. Putting any kind of
value in what Joss Whedon writes is something else altogether. I'd
say it's pretty much useless as a source for edification.

--
Brandon Staggs
http://www.studylamp.com

Visit the misc.education.home-school.christian website:
http://www.meh-sc.org

On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 18:22:29 -0400, Jayne Kulikauskas
<jayne.kulikauskas@gmail.com> wrote:


I don't have a URL but there have been schools that offered studies
in Buffy. Some of them were mentioned in this group in the past.

These were not home schooling, they were actual clases
in an actual school setting.

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Jayne Kulikauskas wrote:

The only thing I can think of is quote I heard once on a long-ago episode,
when they were discussing Buffy's educational options, since the High School
didn't want her due to the path of death and destruction she left in her
wake....

"What about home schooling? It's not just for religious weirdos
anymore."


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"You shall teach them (God's commands) diligently to your children,
and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by
the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up." - Deuteronomy 6:7

Jayne Kulikauskas wrote:

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Dalene Barnes AOL IM: TX Dalene

"You shall teach them (God's commands) diligently to your children,
and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by
the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up." - Deuteronomy 6:7

On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 18:00:59 -0500, Brandon Staggs wrote:


That sounds like something I would like, but the philosophy sounds a bit
advanced for Grumpy. Thanks, anyhow, for the suggestion.


I wonder if your opinion comes from you being ideologically far removed
from Whedon. Grumpy and I came up with this idea because we had a really
good discussion after watching an episode together.

(explanation for Buffy group: I have seven children and use names from
Disney's seven dwarves to refer to them on mehsc.)

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She addressed her request to only homeschoolers, but what the hey....

She might start here:

All Things Philosophical - A comprehensive guide to philosophy and ethics
relating to the Buffyverse.

Buffy Studies Bibliography - Extensive list of all published materials such
as essays in print and online journals and collections, theses and
dissertations, books on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and other Joss
Whedon-related works such as Firefly, and some unpublished conference
papers.

Slayage: The Online Journal of Buffy Studies - A fully electronic
peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the scholarly exploration of the creative
works of Joss Whedon - especially Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Hosted at Middle
Tennessee State University, it is edited by David Lavery and Rhonda Wilcox.
New issues appear approximately every three months.

Tea at the Ford - Literary discussion of Buffy/Angel. Most of the members
have Univerity educations in English.

Some of the items mentioned at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffy_Studies


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On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 18:40:47 -0500, tj wrote:

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Thanks, tj. I knew that if I could come up with the right term I could
google for it, but I couldn't think of "Buffy studies" It seems so obvious
when I see it.
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Wednesday, the 30th of August,
2006

Brandon:
Critiquing popular culture is always interesting. Putting any kind of
value in what Joss Whedon writes is something else altogether. I'd
say it's pretty much useless as a source for edification.

Hmm. We are effectively TV-less. But, over the years I've been in a hotel
room or two where we ended up watching an episode of Buffy. I can't say
that was enough for me to like it at all. Mainly, I remember gross-out
stuff---maggots
and rotting corpses and such, and a feeling that these were characters and a
fantasy-universe I was supposed to know something about before I'd gotten
to this episode.

But, segue to last year and a recommendation somebody or the other gave
me to the Joss Whedon short-season sci-fi series "Firefly". I bought it on
DVD from amazon
and also, then, the capstone movie "Serenity". Damn, it was good! I don't
know that I'd
be the one to use it for a unit study, or anything like that, but whoever
wrote it,
could write.

Mike Morris
(msmorris@netdirect.net)

On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 18:22:29 -0400, Jayne Kulikauskas
<jayne.kulikauskas@gmail.com> wrote:

When I was a kid, I would have loved to stay at home and watch Buffy and
have it count as high school.

It's a good thing my parents had more sense than that.