Tuesday, October 13

Today is Tuesday of Week 8. Here is a link to Week 8, and I hope you enjoy the review assignments. I'd recommend doing all three of the review posts together, and then you can move on and finish up the rest of the Week 8 assignments now... and maybe get ahead on Week 9.

Class Procedures and Reminders

Project Stack. As always, you can check the stack to make sure I received your project. Some of you have a free pass for the Week 8 project, and my goal today is to work on the projects that came in from people who are turning in a project for Week 8. Hopefully I can get to all of those today so that nobody will be held up waiting on comments from me to finish up with Week 8. Then I will move on to the stack of projects from people who have a free pass for Week 8.

Extra credit anytime. Remember that you can do extra credit anytime! So if you finish up the Week 8 review posts, you could also use this as a chance to explore some of the extra credit options now; here's a link: Week 8 Extra.

The following items are for fun and exploration:

Blog stream. The Check-in Padlet is anonymous, so I don't know who posted this lovely image from artist Amanda Clark (here's her Etsy store), but I thought it was lovely, and I agree very much with the comment: Sometimes art will help me write. I feel the same way!


Twitter stream. And here's another gorgeous image; it's the Egyptian goddess Sekhmet from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, dating to around 800 BCE.


Plus there was so much great stuff at Twitter for Indigenous People's Day, like this item from the Oklahoma Historical Association's stream: Tribes in Oklahoma.


Or this item from Public Domain Review about Hopi kachinas: Hopi Drawings.


And this powerful video:


And art from India: this Twitter user asked for help in identifying this image from the Ramayana. Answer: it's people trying to drag the immense bow of Shiva into the courtroom for Sita's swayamvara!


Storybook. And here's a Storybook where the bow of Shiva is the main character: Tales of the Divine Bow.


100-Word Stories. For a story today, here's a tiny tale about Shiva's two sons, Ganesha and Kartikeya.


I loved this new cartoon from Tom Gauld: I suppose my research is whimsical (larger view).


And here's a nice one from Awkward Yeti (larger view).


Finally, a Crash Course video for your enjoyment: The Norse Pantheon. (Yes, that would include Thor!)


October 13: Sister Nivedita. Today marks the anniversary of the death of Margaret Elizabeth Noble, later known as Sister Nivedita, in 1911 (she was born in 1867). She was an early disciple of Swami Vivekananda, and I've included several of her books in the Indian Epics class: Sister Nivedita. The image below shows a postage stamp issued in her honor, and I've also included a video: Remembering Sister Nivedita.





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