Tuesday schedule. I will be out of the office on Tuesday afternoon, which means I will not reply as quickly as usual to any emails you might send me during the afternoon. I'll get back to anything urgent on Tuesday evening, and then I will get caught up on any remaining Tuesday emails on Wednesday morning. So, don't hesitate to send me an email with any questions you have - but don't be surprised if you don't get an answer right away on Tuesday afternoon. :-)
Storybook Stack. I'm still working my way through the HUGE stack of Storybook assignments that people have turned in. If you turned in an assignment on Saturday, you should have comments back from me now. If you turned something in on Sunday or on Monday, it 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. I read the assignments in the order that they are turned in, so the later you turn in the assignment, the longer you'll need to wait to get the comments back. It usually takes me all week to get comments back on all the Storybook assignments people have turned in! So, please wait for my comments before going on to the next Storybook assignment - and to get comments sooner, turn in your assignment on Saturday rather than Sunday or Monday.
Late Storybooks. (repeat announcement) Each week, the Storybook assignment is the only assignment that can be turned in late for partial credit. Since I cannot get all the Storybooks graded and returned immediately, you can turn in the Storybook late for partial credit. If you want full credit (10 points) you must turn the Storybook in on time, that is, over the weekend or before noon on Monday. If you turn it in late, you can receive partial credit, as follows: turn it in on Monday after noon and you can receive up to 8 points; on Tuesday, you can receive up to 7 points; on Wednesday you can receive up to 6 points. If you turn the Storybook assignment in on Thursday before noon, you can receive up to 5 points. No late Storybook assignments will be accepted after noon on Thursday.
Tuesday Events on Campus. There will be a Forum with Student Study Abroad Alumni from 7PM-8:30PM in the Cate Main Social Lounge, 347 Cate Center Dr. Free pizza, too! (time/location/details) Find out more about this and other events at the Campus Calendar online.
January 31: Alan Lomax. Today marks the birthday of Alan Lomax, one of the most important figures in the history of American folk music. He was born on January 31 in 1915 and died in 2002. You can read about his life and career at Wikipedia. After he graduated from college, Lomax began working in 1937 at the Archive of Folk Song of the Library of Congress. He traveled all over the country recording folk singers and recording interviews with musicians like Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly and Jelly Roll Morton. In the 1950s, he began collecting folk music from all over the world and produced the influential multi-volume record series, Columbia World Library of Folk and Primitive Music. Check out the Alan Lomax Collection at the Library of Congress online, and you can read in in this NYTimes article about the efforts to digitize Lomax's work AND make it available for free streaming! Exciting! The image below is an album cover from his collection of Prison Songs:
