Monday, October 23

Today is Monday. Week 9 is now over... and Week 10 has begun. The new week's topic in the Myth-Folklore class is Native American stories, and in Indian Epics you will be choosing from Krishna or Jataka stories. You can find the week's assignments at the Class Calendar.

Class Procedures and Reminders

My schedule. I'm out of town giving a lecture at Creighton University (wish me luck!), and I'm not sure what kind of Internet access I'll have. So, I'll be slower than usual in responding to emails, but hopefully I'll be able to get back to you in the evening with any questions that come up today. It looks like the class wiki is behaving nicely again, but if it misbehaves, here are the alternate assignment links, just in case.

Project Stack. I'll update the stack before I leave Monday morning, but if you turn in something during the grace period, I probably won't be able to add it to the stack until tonight. I will start working on the stack when I am back in my office on Thursday. While you are waiting on comments back from me about your Project assignment, you can check the stack to make sure I received your email.

 Comments and Feedback. Before leaving, I got this week's Comment randomizer ready to go, along with the Project Feedback assignment. This week, you'll be visiting projects in the other class!

Extra Credit. In addition to the regular Week 10 comments, you can do additional comments for extra credit. Find out more in the extra credit section of this week's assignments.

The following items are for fun and exploration:

Class Twitter. From yesterday's Twitter @OnlineMythIndia, here is a beautiful item for Philip Pullman's latest Dark Materials book, which just came out last week: The Book of Dust. I have been eagerly awaiting this new book; he is one of my favorite authors.
Words from India. Today's Sanskrit word in English is NIRVANA.


Storybook Archive. This project is from the Myth-Folklore class: What It Is To Love Oisín. Oisín (Ossian) is one of the great national heroes of Ireland, and here you meet Oisín through the eyes of those who love him: his mother, his father, his lover Níamh Chinn Óir, and the land of Ireland itself.


Free Book Online: Today's free book is The Giant Crab, and Other Tales from Old India by W. H. D. Rouse. See the Freebookapalooza blog for links and the table of contents. This is one of the jataka reading options in Indian Epics this week.


Story of the Day. Today's story is from Aesop's fables: The Peacock and Juno. The goddess teaches the jealous peacock to be satisfied with his own gifts and talents.


Video: The video for today is The Myth of the Missing Half. Find out more about this famous story from Plato's Symposium at Wikipedia.


You might know this myth from the wonderful version in Hedwig and the Angry Inch: The Origin of Love.


 Growth Mindset: Today's growth mindset cat is facing some difficulties: We all struggle. You can find out more at the Growth Mindset blog.


Event on Campus: There will be a lecture by Yaron Ayalon at noon in 145 Farzaneh: Ottoman Tolerance and its Legacy Today (details). Find out more about this and other events at the Campus Calendar online.


October 23: Josh Kirby. Today marks the anniversary of the death of Josh Kirby in 2001, a great illustrator who is best known for the covers of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, and you might be familiar with his art for this Return of the Jedi poster; you can find out more about his life and work at Wikipedia:



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