Tuesday, September 25

Today is Tuesday of Week 6. Here is a link to the Week 6 assignments. It's another week of stories from the Middle East and India in Myth-Folklore, while it is the first week of the Mahabharata in Indian Epics. I hope you will enjoy the new reading!

Class Procedures and Reminders

Week 6 progress. The semester is now one-third over! So, if you have not done so recently, you might want to check on your progress so far. Also, if you have forgotten to do a Declaration and need me to update that for you manually in Canvas, send me an email to let me know.

Project Stack. As always at the start of the week, the stack is HUGE. If you turned in something by noon on Saturday, you should have comments back from me now, and you can check the stack to make sure I received your email. I'll finish up the Saturday assignments today and get started on Sunday!

The following items are for fun and exploration:

Blog Stream. This is not from the blog stream but instead from a Storybook: Jessica is doing her own illustrations for her project! Take a look: No Birth, No Death: Loss. This one is entitled Memory his way to Freedom.

Featured Storybook. This is an Indian Epics Storybook from last year: Through the Page: One Girl's Journey. Much to little Anaya's surprise, she receives a visit from a goddess, Saraswati, and it's urgent: the goddess brings Anaya to meet a "damsel petrified," which turns out to be only the first of the missions that Anaya must complete with the goddess's help.

India Video. Here is a video about the goddess Saraswati: Saraswati's Secret.

Myth Video. And here's a video about the male side of the equation: Archetypal Gods: Male Divinity.

Myth Item. This is another English word from mythology: COLOSSAL, from Greek kolossos, meaning a gigantic statue, like the Colossus of Rhodes.

Writing. And here's a sneaky English word-pair: COMPLEMENT and COMPLIMENT.

Growth Mindset Cats. It's good to know why you want to grow: Look at the big picture and remember your why.

This is a graphic to inspire your reading and writing this week: Room for a Story.

And here is a talk by two OU students about empathy and storytelling: Understanding mental illness through empathic storytelling (Jake was a student in Myth-Folklore!).

Event on Campus. Tonight from 6PM-8PM in the Traditions West Clubhouse there will be a forum on Misconceptions of Islam in the West (details).

Find out more about this and other events at the Campus Calendar online.

September 25: Bill of Rights. Today marks the date in 1789 when Congress proposed the Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution (they were finally ratified in 1791). How many of the amendments can you name? You can read more about the Bill of Rights in this Wikipedia article, with a specific list of the amendments here; Wikipedia is also the source for this photograph of the original Bill of Rights:

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