Sunday, March 1

Today is Sunday of Week 7, the last day of Week 7. Here's a link to Week 7, and here is a link to Week 8, which is a Review Week. I hope you will enjoy the change of pace in Week 8; there is no new reading or storytelling; instead, there are some reflection posts. You might want to do those today and get a head start on the whole week ahead!

Class Procedures and Reminders

Half-way done! The end of Week 7 marks the end of the first half of the semester (14 weeks total, plus Dead Week). You can check your progress with this chart. To be passing the class at the end of Week 7, you should have around 150 points; if your goal is to get an A in the class, you should have around 200 points now.

Project Stack. I'll update the stack periodically as people turn in those assignments today, and you can always check the stack to make sure I received your project. Some of you will have a free pass for the project during Week 8; you can find out more about that here (it depends on what you're turning in for Week 7).

The following items are for fun and exploration:

Blog Stream. There are all kinds of storytelling styles out there, and sometimes you can conjure up a style with just a single image: here's Daniel doing a film noir take on the Mahabharata! The Case of the Kidnapped Detectives. You can tell it's film noir right away:

Twitter Stream. This is such a cool article at Scroll.in: A Kolkata painter is adding a dash of modernity to centuries-old Patachitra art. Here's a link to the article.

A Bigger Bookshelf. Today's African book of stories is Winds and Lights: African Fairy Tales by H. H. Prince Akiki K. Nyabongo of Uganda, who also lived and taught in United States. Here is an illustration for one of the stories:

Indian Epics Today. Today's epic character is ARJUNA, the great archer of the Mahabharata. You can learn more about Arjuna here, and also in this Epified video:

Storybooks. Here's an exciting Storybook from last year: Discovering Dragons. It's a Wix site:

Myth-Folklore Video. And here's a Crash Course video on Serpents and Dragons.

Proverbs. This is a Latin proverb, a modern Latin proverb, about dragons (from J.K. Rowling): Never tickle a sleeping dragon.
Draco dormiens numquam titillandus.

And a quote from Brian Andreas: Anyone can slay a dragon, he told me, but try waking up every morning and loving the world all over again.

Mindset Cats. This mindset cat is learning in her own way.

HEART Video. And here's some advice about getting a good night's sleep this weekend: What would happen if you didn’t sleep?

Event on Campus. Visit the Sam Noble Museum to see A New Moon Rises, a traveling exhibit from the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum. The Sam Noble Museum is open from 1PM-5PM on Sundays and is free to OU students (details).

March 1: Zero Discrimination Day. Today is world-wide Zero Discrimination Day, celebrating diversity, tolerance and inclusion. The global event is sponsored by UN-AIDS whose goal is to reach people who have HIV with treatment, eliminate HIV stigma, and reduce sexual transmission of HIV. The theme for this year is Zero Discimination against Women and Girls.

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