Class Procedures and Reminders
MY SCHEDULE TODAY. I will be out of the office for part of the late morning and early afternoon. I'll be back at my desk at some point in the afternoon and will get caught up on answering emails then. Thank you for your patience with that. (I have an optometrist appointment: new glasses, which is exciting!)
Blog network. The blog stream is very lively now, full of new posts popping up! There's a "blogs" link in the Canvas left-hand navigation menu, so you can take a look and see what people are posting in (almost) real time in both Myth-Folklore and in Indian Epics.
Blog comments. My goal this week is to comment on all the favorite places posts, and I will also comment on as many of the Introduction posts as I can. Meanwhile, for those of you who are working ahead, the commenting for Week 2 is ready to go, so you can jump right in with that now if you want. :-)
Storybooks! There are a few people who are working seriously ahead, so there are even two Storybook projects up and running already; you can take a look if you are curious: Rob has a Harry-Potter-themed project about Nagini in Indian Epics, and Amy is creating an Ashwatthama project set in the Marvel universe, also for Indian Epics. Then, a few weeks from now, we will have LOTS of new Storybooks in both classes. :-)
Blog comments. My goal this week is to comment on all the favorite places posts, and I will also comment on as many of the Introduction posts as I can. Meanwhile, for those of you who are working ahead, the commenting for Week 2 is ready to go, so you can jump right in with that now if you want. :-)
Storybooks! There are a few people who are working seriously ahead, so there are even two Storybook projects up and running already; you can take a look if you are curious: Rob has a Harry-Potter-themed project about Nagini in Indian Epics, and Amy is creating an Ashwatthama project set in the Marvel universe, also for Indian Epics. Then, a few weeks from now, we will have LOTS of new Storybooks in both classes. :-)
Blog stream. So many fun images are showing up in people's favorite places posts; check out this fantastic picture of the Bean sculpture in Chicago in Jack's Favorite Place post. And some fun sculpture trivia: the sculptor of this famous artwork was born in India! You can find out more about Anish Kapoor at Wikipedia.
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Another work of art from India that I saw from Amit Guha at Twitter: this time it is the goddess Varahi riding on a tiger. Find out more about the goddess Varahi here.
Some procrastination humor from War and Peas:
And here's another one of my favorite cartoonists, Nathan Pyle, encouraging you to... commence the danger! :-)
And for some musical encouragement, here's Shakira: Try Everything.
January 27: Today marks the birthday of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen name, Lewis Carroll, in 1832. You can read more about his life and career at Wikipedia. Both of his Alice books, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, are included in the Myth-Folklore UnTextbook. Here's a free audiobook is Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, along with an illustration of the Mad Tea-Party by John Tenniel.
Today is also Holocaust Remembrance Day. January 27, the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp, has been designated by the United Nations and many other countries as a day in remembrance of those who died in the Nazi Holocaust of World War II. The person I hold in my special remembrance for this day is Janusz Korczak (Wikipedia), a visionary educator who organized the Jewish orphanage in the Warsaw Ghetto. In 1942, the Nazis raided Korczak's orphanage and sent the children to the death camp at Treblinka. Although Korczak's Polish friends begged him to escape and hide with them for the rest of the war, he would not leave the children, and he died together with them at Treblinka. This image below shows the Yad Vashem Memorial for Korczak and his children:
