Class Procedures and Reminders
Project Stack. If you turned in something before noon on Sunday, you should have comments back from me, and I'll keep working on the Sunday items today. Meanwhile, you can check the stack to make sure I received your project.
Story Lab: Microfictions. This week is another Story Lab week, and if you haven't tried a microfiction option, I hope you will consider those options. Maybe you will write something you want to contribute to the class anthology; I've seen so many great microfiction stories go by in people's blogs, and I'm sure we could make a good book together! So you can use the Story Lab this week if you want to learn about microfictions or maybe try writing some of your own. Here's more about the class anthology: contribute your stories now if you want! (My goal is to put the book together during Weeks 14 and 15 so that it will be ready for the end of the semester.)
The following items are for fun and exploration:
Blog stream. One of the things you can do with 100-word stories is string them together to create a larger story; Keana has done that with her "Tiny Tiny Ghost" chronicles. Here's one of them: The Lonely Little Ghost.
Very cool video from the Louvre Museum in Paris:
Au Louvre ! ✨
— Musée du Louvre (@MuseeLouvre) November 10, 2020
🗝 Have you ever watched closely "The Ship of Fools" of Bosch?
The theme recalls the poem "The Ship of Fools" (1494) by the German author Sebastien Brant, which is a satire on human society.#LouvreChezVous #MuseumFromHome pic.twitter.com/DRfSAAkh3Y
And a video from Ministry of Culture in India:
Sattriya dance form is a powerful medium for the propagation of the Vaishnava faith introduced by Srimanta Sankaradeva. It integrates art and Bhakti through music, dance, and drama. #EkBharatShreshthaBharat @prahladspatel @secycultureGOI @PMOIndia @PIBCulture@pspoffice pic.twitter.com/Lf02Qdk4Jw
— Ministry of Culture (@MinOfCultureGoI) November 8, 2020
Storybook. Carrying on with the ghosts, here's a haunted Storybook: Tales of Davy Jones' Locker.
100-Word Stories. And more ghosts: here's an Anansi story where Anansi tricks Tiger into thinking of ghosts. Anansi and Tiger's Bone-Hole.
Plus some advice from Awkward Yeti: Brain is not sure, but Heart knows that watching butterflies is a good way to spend the day.
And for your viewing and listening enjoyment, a gorgeous video about Indian farmers from Maati Baani: Saccha Mitr, True Friend.
November 11: Armistice Day. Today is Armistice Day, "The Day of the Setting-Down-of-Arms," which marked the end of hostilities on the Western Front of World War I on November 11 in 1918. Here is a photograph of the German surrender:
November 11 is also the birthday of Kurt Vonnegut. You can read about Vonnegut's life and career in this Wikipedia article, and here he reflects on what it was like to have November 11 for his birthday:
Check out the Twitter stream for information and fun stuff during the day, or click here for past announcements.
When I was a boy, all the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month. It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind.
