Class Procedures and Reminders
Stories for the randomizer. I'll update the randomizer to add in the new stories later today, so there will be lots of new stories in the randomizer for your Week 11 blog comments. Thanks to everybody for the new stories this week!
Project Stack. If you turned in your project on Sunday, you should have gotten comments back from me, and I should be able to get through the rest of the stack by the end of the day today. As always, you can check the stack to make sure I received your project.
The following items are for fun and exploration:
Blog stream. I noticed this post because of the beautiful dragon painting, and when I clicked to look I saw that Jennifer has two dragon stories here side by a side, a Chinese legend and a Japanese legend. Very cool! You can see the stories here: Two Dragon Myths.
Twitter stream. One of my favorite myth-fantasy book series is the Aru Shah / Pandava series by Roshani Chokshi... the fourth book just came out, and you can snag the first three books in the series for just 99 cents each as part of the promotion for the new book; highly recommended, especially for any fantasy fans in the Indian Epics class: 99 cent Pandava series.
And here's an interview with the author:
From #FolkloreThursday yesterday, here's a fairy legend about eating rowan berries:
Plus a fascinating article about trying to imagine stories from the distant past: hunter-heroines! Early big-game hunters of the Americas were female.
Check out the Twitter stream for information and fun stuff during the day, or click here for past announcements.
And something from Crash Course about trees:
April 9: Tom Lehrer. Today, April 9, is the 93st birthday of Tom Lehrer, born in 1928, an American mathematician and composer of some very funny satirical songs. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TOM LEHRER! Here's one of his science songs: The Elements.
And here's one of his mythological songs: Oedipus Rex.
