Saturday, September 28

Happy Weekend, everybody! Today is Saturday of Week 6. Here is a link to the Week 6 assignments, and to Week 7 also. 

Class Procedures and Reminders

Project Stack. On Friday, I replied to all the Week 5 assignments in the stack, with just a few Week 6 and Week 7 assignments I did not get to, so those will be at the top of the stack on Monday. Meanwhile, you can check the stack to make sure I received your assignment; I'll update the stack periodically over the weekend.

Project Feedback. Now that the Portfolios and Storybooks are in place, the project feedback can really get started. When you get to the Week 6 Feedback assignment, you'll see a new randomizer: instead of randomizing the blogs, it randomizes the projects, plus you will get to choose a project too. There are so many different projects to choose from in both classes now!

The following items are for fun and exploration:

Blog Stream. Camille found something fun at the Writers Write website for the StoryLab this week: 20 Myths To Use As Writing Prompts.


Story of the Day. And speaking of mythological "why" stories, today's story is an African story about the donkey: Why The Donkey Lives in Town. The donkey used to live in the jungle, lording it over all the other animals, even the elephant. But that did not last for long...


Indian Epics Today. We have reached the last of the gods who father the heroes of the Mahabharata: the twin Ashwins, divine fathers of the Pandava twins Nakula and Sahadeva. More about the Ashwins. Plus a related Epified video: The Greatest Twins.


Twitter Stream. The Ashwins are not the only horse-headed divinities; even Vishnu had a horse-headed form called Hayagriva, as Devdutt Pattanaik explains in this tweet:


Storybooks. This Storybook is about Rubezahl, a trickster mountain spirit who is famous in Germany and Poland: Tales from Silesia.


Myth-Folklore Video. Gearing up for the Africa units coming up, here's a Crash Course video: African Pantheons.


Words. Here's one of my favorite words that comes to English from India: SERENDIPITY, from the fabled island of Serendip, an old name for Sri Lanka; details here.


H.E.A.R.T.. If you had a hard week, here's some advice from Molly Hahn of Buddha Doodles:


Mindset Cats. And mindset cat reminds you to always trust yourself.


Event on Campus. There are all kinds of things going on for Fall Family Weekend (details).



September 28: Mahalaya Amavasya. Today is the Indian ancestor holiday called Mahalaya Amavasya, honoring the goddess Durga as the culmination of a two-week ceremony called Pitru Paksha. You can find out more in this article at About.com Hinduism. You can follow the holiday at Twitter, which is where I found this video:




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