Storybook Stack. I'm still working my way through the large stack of Storybook assignments that people have turned in. If you turned in an assignment by 10PM on Sunday, you should have comments back from me now. If you turned something in later on Sunday night, or on Monday or Tuesday, your assignment is probably still in the stack, waiting for me to get to it. If you want to check to make sure your assignment is in the stack, you can see the contents of the stack here.
Mid-Term Grade Reports. If you did not read Monday's announcements, please see the note there about the university's mid-term grade reports (I'm not sure if/when/how the new Ozone system will be available for viewing grade reports this week; we were asked to fill out the forms last week, but there was no specific information provided about how students would access the information.)
Week 7 Internet assignment. If you did not read Tuesday's announcements, please make sure you take a look at that; the instructions for the Internet assignment this week are somewhat different from last week since you will be reading the Introduction AND a story at the Storybooks you comment on this week.
Storybook: Working ahead. (repeat announcement) In order to do the Week 7 Storybook assignment, you will need to wait for comments back on your Week 6 assignment. Depending on just when you turned in your Week 6 assignment, you may have to wait until later in the week, even as late as Friday, in order to get comments back from me. If you want to work ahead on your Storybook, though, you can do that - just move right ahead to the Week 8 assignment, adding the second story to your Storybook! You can turn in the Week 8 assignment before you turn in the Week 7 assignment, if you are wanting to work ahead.
March 3: Hinamatsuri. Today, March 3, is the Hinamatsuri holiday in Japan, the "Doll Festival," which is a festival of good luck for young girls. You can read more about the holiday in this Wikipedia article, or in this article at About.com - and in the Myth-Folklore class, Ashley is doing her project on Festivals of Japan and Japanese Fairy Tales this semester, so you can find out more there, too. This image shows a Hinamatsuri doll displayed at the festival in 2005 in the city of Kounos, near Tokyo:
