Posted in Hermetic Lessons, Science on June 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Mission to Europa
Objectives
Teach space topic (learn about planets)
Review energy and forces topics
Imagination
Creative writing
Problem solving
Teamwork
Introduction
The students are to split into groups of 4. They are astronauts and there task is a privately sponsored mission to explore one of Saturn’s moons, Europa, to explore for life. Europa is like a goldfish bowl made of frozen water and [...]
Posted in Hermetic Lessons, mathematics on June 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Purpose
A student in my mathematics class continuously asked what is the point of all this? She was referring to the study of subjects like trigonometry and algebra. I will never use this in life, she said. I agreed that she almost certainly would not, in fact I hoped she wouldn’t commenting on how boring it was [...]
Posted in Drama, Hermetic Lessons, tagged Drama, Hermetic Lessons on May 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Lovecraft – Devil’s Reef
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7O6dTtQUNQ
Our drama GCSE class had worked on interpreting and adapting Lovecraft short stories for the stage. Building on this success we decided to combine our efforts and put Lovecraft on stage in all of his glory. We worked on adapting four stories to the stage: From Beyond, The Temple, Dagon, and the [...]
Posted in Drama, Hermetic Lessons, tagged Drama, Hermetic Lessons on May 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last year our school drama company interpreted and performed William Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”, myself and two of my colleagues directed and produced and the cast was drawn from our school population of international students; Poles, Czechs, Armenians, Ukrainians and Russians. It was my first year working in Prague and I had immersed myself in European [...]
Posted in Hermetic Lessons, mathematics, tagged Hermetic Lessons, Hermetic Lessons - Mathematics, mathematics on May 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Maths Challenge – City design
Learning Objectives
Exploring applications of mathematics through creative project on city planning, i.e. architecture, engineering, social planning
Loci
Mensuration
Hermetic Purpose
Study on Utopias are very popular in the Hermetic arts. Bacon’s Atlantis, Plato’s Republic, etc. Utopian work asks the students to think about how society can be run holistically and ecologically friendly.
Activities
Explain the story of [...]
Posted in Drama, Hermetic Lessons, tagged Drama, Hermetic Lessons on April 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Hermetic Lessons – The Silk Roads
Learning Objectives
Script-writing
Stage-fighting
Romance
Starter
Students are introduced to the Sufi poem “What was said to the rose” as an example of love poetry. They must interpret this poem very simply on stage in small groups.
What was said to the rose that made it open
was said to me here in my chest.
What was told [...]
Posted in Drama, Hermetic Lessons, tagged Drama, Hermetic Lessons on November 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Hermetic Lessons – Facing God
Project Outline
Students must make a trailer for a film, promotional materials, storyboard and a pitch in order to convince Hollywood producers that there’s is the film to make.
Concept
All students must base their story roughly on the following concept. It is the future and no-one believes in God anymore. What is society [...]
Posted in Drama, Hermetic Lessons, tagged Drama on November 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Hermetic Lessons – Fernando Pessoa and the Book of Disquiet
Why Fernando Pessoa? George Steiner suggests that Fernando Pessoa is a great teacher who inspires us to explore the self, that his ghosts of Lisbon speak to us about the fragmentary nature of our own psyche. Fernando Pessoa, a student of Hermeticism, believed in the essential plurality [...]
Posted in Drama, Hermetic Lessons, tagged Hermetic Lessons, Science on September 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Hermetic Lessons – The Island
This project consists of 3 sections and substantial project work at home. The students are asked to collectively design an island in the artic circle and then, divided into groups, they must work out the story that takes place on it.
Practical Work
1) Students must create a synposis of their own story [...]
Posted in Hermetic Lessons on August 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Hermetic lessons outlined on this blog are there to provide both a record of my own experiments in “Hermetic Teaching” and to supply interested teachers and parents with plans and suggestions for introducing “Hermetic ideas” to their pupils and children.
Hermeticism takes its name from the legendary Hermes Trimegistus of Egypt, a fabled magician, physician [...]
