Rosetta

[serafina20]

Apparently, family trees are considered un-PC and not good assignments to give because of issues such as adoption, divorce/abandonment, and families such as Lana's. I read it in a magazine called "Teaching Tolerance" a few weeks ago. Now, you're supposed to assign "family circles". The article didn't explain what those were, but I take back any mean thoughts I'd had about Chloe, Clark, and Lana's frustrations with the projects.

Apparently, this episode is not only really, fantastically *good*, but it was also well-researched.

And the music is neat too.

Comments

[garryowen.livejournal.com]

Yes, I believe that in this ep, "The Scientist" plays and it could be because of Clana, but it overlaps into Lex picking up Clark's family tree and staring after him longingly. Yup. Da Clex, baby! And the song suits Lex way more than Lana.

[grlnamedlucifer.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm not exactly sure what "family circles" are either, but I agree. I don't know about them being "un-PC", but they kinda just don't work now-a-days since there's so much divorce, (actually recognized) out-of-wedlock kids, adoption, etc. I know one of my friends in school couldn't do one since both his parents were adopted, and it's really frustrating trying to figure out on mine where to put the kids of the woman my half-brother's with (while she's technically married to the father of those kids, whose in jail). Yeah. -_-;;;

[serafina20.livejournal.com]

I don't know about them being "un-PCM

Well, since anythign that can offend and upset a group of people is considered non-politically correct, I thinks that's the best term. But I agree they don't really work all that well. I always figured that you put the people you consider your family on the tree, so, like in the case of someone being adopted, whoever they counted as their mom and dad got up on the tree. Teh problem is adopted children who don't want to forget about their birth parents or have to choose.

I'm assuming a family circle would be a group of circle showing how you connect everyone to yourself. YOu can include or disclude anyone you want, however you want. Or something. I"m going to do some more research on that.

[lady-alys.livejournal.com]

I always got frustrated with family tree assigments. Some people in my class could trace parts of their families back to the Mayflower and beyond and had beautifully complex trees. Any information prior to my great grandparents has been lost because of the Russian purges and the Holocaust, so I always ended up with a family shrub.

It's sad, really. A few months before my grandmother died, we found a huge stash of lithographs of my grandfather's family that had been taken back in Russia. We know who a few of the people are, and can make educated guesses about others from the way people are grouped, but the rest are a mystery. All the captions are in pre-Revolutionary Russian script, so are pretty incomprehensible. Hmmm... Mom was going to check into finding someone who could translate, but I haven't heard anything in a while. I'll have to check and see if there's been any progress.

[serafina20.livejournal.com]

Any information prior to my great grandparents has been lost because of the Russian purges and the Holocaust, so I always ended up with a family shrub.

Yeah, that was my family, too. We could trace it pretty far on my dad's side, but my mom's was fairly abbreviated. Soemone on my mom's side is doing our geneology, I think; I'll be interested in whatever he turns up.