Saturday, November 3

Today is Saturday of Week 11. Here is a link to the Week 11 assignments and if you are ready to start Week 12 today, here's that link: Week 12. Working ahead is a great strategy for the end of the semester!

Class Procedures and Reminders

Finishing up the class. I am glad to announce that Braley has finished the class: congratulations, Braley! That means there is now one person who has completed Myth-Folklore and one person who has completed Indian Epics. If your goal is to finish the class early, do some extra credit and/or work ahead! More information about that here: Progress Chart.

Project Stack. I got through all the Week 10 assignments in the stack, and the Week 11 and Week 12 assignments that were still left in the stack on Friday will be at the top of the stack on Monday. Meanwhile, you can check the stack to make sure I received your email.

The following items are for fun and exploration:

Project Stream. I really like the way Shivani used the text box option to create a kind of subtitle on this page: ROUGH GOODBYES: Kunti's Farewell. Remember to look out for design ideas when you visit people's websites and blogs; there are all kinds of different approaches people are taking, and you can get ideas by looking around.

Featured Storybook. You will find quite a collection of characters in this project: Heroes Revealed: The Truth. Charon the boatman has ferried many heroes to the shores of the afterlife. So that you can learn just what it means to be a hero, Charon will take you to meet Heracles, Beowulf, King Arthur, and Cleopatra, who will each tell you the stories of their own heroic deeds.

Myth Video. Here's an Inuit legend: The Owl and the Raven.

India Video. And this is another video from Epified: Why We Worship Trees.

India Item. From trees to flowers! Here's a wonderful resource: Flowers in Ancient Indian Literature.

Writing. This one is from the "English is weird" department: Phonetic Definitions.

And here are some thoughts from Grant Snider to ponder: Interior Life.

Growth Mindset Cats. The growth cats are always curious: Confront the unknown with curiosity.

Here's a fun one from the linguist John McWhorter: Are Elvish, Klingon, Dothraki and Na'vi real languages?

Event on Campus. It's India Student Association's Rangoli: Diwali Night tonight: there will be dance performances! (details)

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

November 3: Carracci. Today marks the birthday in 1560 of the Italian painter Annibale Carracci, who is famous for his paintings on both religious and mythological subjects; you can read more about his life and career at Wikipedia. I see a lot of parallels between Carracci's painting of The Choice of Heracles and the meme of "the distracted boyfriend." What do you think?

Here's a distracted boyfriend meme someone made for this class last semester! It's very "meta" — a meme about making memes, ha ha.

And here's a funny punctuation one too:

Check out the Twitter stream for information and fun stuff during the day, or click here for past announcements.