Wednesday, September 12

Today is Wednesday of Week 4. Here is a link to the Week 4 assignments. I hope you are enjoying this week's reading!

Class Procedures and Reminders

Go wild with your notes. In yesterday's announcements, I mentioned a weird-but-useful strategy for reading, and trying weird new things is good for learning! Likewise with notetaking: try new strategies, look up things online, be curious, ask questions! The more active your brain can be while you read and take notes, thinking your own weird thoughts, the more you will remember (see some ideas here, and see the video below).

Project Stack. If you turned in something by 5PM on Sunday, you should have comments back from me. I'll keep working on the Sunday assignments today; meanwhile, you can check the stack to make sure I received your email.

The following items are for fun and exploration:

Blog Stream. Megan from Myth-Folklore has written a wonderful post to share more about her major: History of Science. The History of Science Collections in Bizzell is one of my favorite places on campus: it is home to so many beautiful old books! See Megan's post for more pictures, and maybe you will go visit for yourself: History of Science Collections hours.

Featured Storybook. Myths and legends are often about "crimes" of some kind, which means a criminal court might be required, like in this Storybook: Celtic Creature Criminal Court Clerk. What will the court decree as punishment for fairy criminals like Willowflitter, Grumgottels, Rainwasp, and Moonsplatter?

Myth Video. Here's another video from the Fountainheads! This time it's the story of Esther, a Bible heroine who appears in one of the Myth-Folklore units this week: Raise Your Mask Purim.

India Video. Those of you in Indian Epics who are reading the Amar Chitra Katha comic books might enjoy this video about ACK's founder, Anant Pai.

India Item. Here is one of my favorite ACK comic books: Mahiravana: A Magician Outwitted. Ravana's magician son, Mahiravana, has kidnapped Rama and Lakshmana, planning to offer them in sacrifice to the goddess Durga. Hanuman will have to come to the rescue!

Writing. It's a communications paradox: A Brief History of Writing Technology.

And here's some advice from Robert Fulghum involving one of my favorite technologies: crayons!

Growth Mindset Cats. This cat is feeling creative: creativity allows you to express yourself.

Taking notes and being creative go hand-in hand: A Writer's Notebook.

Event on Campus. Come put the “cheese” in chisme this Wednesday with HASA at 7PM tonight in Jim Thorpe Multicultural Center (details).

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

September 12: Lascaux Caves. September 12 marks the anniversary of the discovery in 1940 of the prehistoric cave paintings at Lascaux in France. For more information, see Wikipedia, which is also the source for the image below. The paintings are approximately 16,000 years old, dating to the "Stone Age" (Upper Paleolithic, around 40,000 BCE to 10,000 BCE).

And here's a video about the caves with Rick Steves:

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