Class Procedures and Reminders
Grace period. Now that we are into the third week of the semester, I'm not sending out reminders about the grace period; it's always there for an emergency if you need it, but you can also make up missing assignments with extra credit. If you ever have any questions about how that works, just let me know!
Project Stack. If you turned in your project assignment before 3PM on Sunday, you should have comments back from me now. I'll be replying to more of those Sunday items today, working through the assignments in the order they were turned in by email. In the meantime, you can check the stack to make sure your project is there.
The following items are for fun and exploration:
Blog Stream. Here's another of those favorite places images; this is Alyx's picture of a Grand Canyon sunset:
Free Audiobook. Today's free audiobook is The Curious Book of Birds by Abbie Farwell Brown. (And yes, this is the same author as for the unit on saints and animals in Myth-Folklore this week.)
Featured Storybook. This Storybook is a blend of Greek history and Greek mythology: Ancient Generals: Bragging at Elysian Fields. Alexander the Great awakens to find himself in the Elysian Fields, enjoying the company of the great generals of classical Greece: Themistocles, Leonidas, and Miltiades. The question naturally arises: who is the greatest of them all?
Myth Video. It's a deluge of stories in this Crash Course video: Floods in the Ancient Near East.
And there's a flood story from India in which the god Vishnu becomes a fish, Matsya, and this fish avatar saves the world; this is a lithograph of Matsya by Raja Ravi Varma:
India Item. Some of you in Myth-Folklore may have read the story of Pygmalion last week, so you might enjoy this great video from the Indian musicians Maati Baani: Naina Bawre (click on CC for English captions):
Myth Item. And for those of you who might be reading the story of Queen Esther in the Bible Women unit, here is The Entire Story Of Purim, As Told By Cat GIFs. Meet King Ahasuerus:
Growth Mindset Cats. This kitten wants to be a hero: Don't let your fear paralyze you.
And here's a video about hero stories: What makes a hero?
Event on Campus. Come to the Western History Collections in Monnet Hall at noon to hear Robert Dale Parker discuss the poets featured in the exhibition, Red Dust Oklahoma: A Poetic History (details).
January 29: Edward Lear. Today marks the death in the year 1888 of the English illustrator and poet, Edward Lear (he was born in 1812). You can read more about Lear's life and work in this Wikipedia article. He is most famous for his limericks and nonsense verse — especially the poem entitled The Owl and the Pussycat. You can listen to the poem at this Tales of Curiosity video:
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