Thursday, September 12

Today is Thursday of Week 4, and here are the Week 4 assignments. Some of you will be writing a Story in your blog today, and some of you might be choosing the new "Story Lab" option.

Class Procedures and Reminders

Story OR Story Lab. This is the first week with a Story Lab option instead of Storytelling. So, for those of you who wrote a story back in Week 2 and another story in Week 3, you have a choice this week: you can write another story for Week 4 (and writing a story is always good!) or you can take a break from storytelling and do one of the Story Lab options. You'll see how that works when you get to the Story assignment today.

Project Stack. If you turned in a project assignment on Sunday before 10PM, you should have comments back from me; I'll keep working on the Sunday assignments today, and in the meantime you can check the stack to make sure I received your assignment. My goal is always to get through the stack by the end of the week, but it usually does take me until Friday to reply to them all. :-)

The following items are for fun and exploration:

Blog Stream. I laughed out loud when I saw this in Cody's blog post with his Ramayana reading notes: hilarious!


Twitter Stream. I am such a fan of libraries everywhere, so of course I loved this advertisement for the British Library which I saw at Twitter:


Story of the Day. Today's "why" story is about Why the Otter Lives in Water. It's a Cherokee story, and, as usual, it's the rabbit's fault again.


Proverbs. And here's a proverb from India about otters: It is vain to look for yesterday’s fish in the house of the otter.


Indian Epics Today. Todays character is RAVANA, the ten-headed king of the rakshasas in Lanka; more about Ravana. Here you can see Ravana fighting in the Battle of Lanka:


Storybooks. And speaking of rakshasas, here's a great Storybook with stories told as album reviews: Rakshasa Stone Magazine: Demon Music Reviews.


Myth-Folklore Video. Here's another Crash Course video with Mike Rugnetta: Ma'ui, Oceania's Hero.


H.E.A.R.T.. Yes, it's that time of the semester: ask the coffee flowchart what to do!


Mindset Cats. Meanwhile, the mindset cat keeps on learning!


Mindset Video. The characters at Zootopia keep on learning too, with some help from Shakira: Try everything!


Event on Campus. Tonight at 7PM in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Dan Gagliasso will give a talk "When the Legend Becomes Reel..." (details).


September 12: Lascaux Caves. Today 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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