Class Procedures and Reminders
Story Lab: Microfiction. There's a Story Lab option for this week, and if you have not looked at the microfiction options, it's not too late to give that a try; perhaps you will write something you want to include in the class anthology! Here is last semester's anthology
Friday noon. The class will be over on Friday at noon. When you have the points you need (410/A, 360/B, 320/C), you can fill out this form to let me know you are done. And remember, the Week 14 project feedback and blog comments items are available there in the Week 15 module too; it would be great if you want to do those so that people can get some comments on their stories even at this late moment in the semester.
Project stack. Yesterday I worked most of the day on the microfiction anthology; I'll be sharing that around with people today, hoping you will contribute. So that means the stack is still large; I still have a few new stories in there to read. As always, you can check the stack to make sure I received your email.
The following items are for fun and exploration:
Blog Stream. A cute gif from the check-in-and-connect Padlet about how the semester has FLOWN by:
Here's a fun video from Vox: Why knights fought snails in medieval art.
And a First Nations Literacy video: The Ojibway Creation Story.
This is an unusual word from mythology: SYRINGE. It comes from Greek syrinx, which refers to a tube or pipe, including a musical pipe, and that Greek word goes with a story about a nymph named Syrinx (Σύριγξ).
And musical fun from Maati Baani: Funky Pawa.
Choosing names is often an important part of telling a story, and here are some charts that show name popularity over time.
And if you're feeling overwhelmed with homework, maybe your dog can help.
May 6. On this day in 1940, John Steinbeck won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel, The Grapes of Wrath. You can find out more about Steinbeck, and more about the novel, at Wikipedia. You can listen to the novel at YouTube:
This is an unusual word from mythology: SYRINGE. It comes from Greek syrinx, which refers to a tube or pipe, including a musical pipe, and that Greek word goes with a story about a nymph named Syrinx (Σύριγξ).
Some advice for writing, specifically for scientific writing: keep it short! This could have been shorter.
May 6. On this day in 1940, John Steinbeck won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel, The Grapes of Wrath. You can find out more about Steinbeck, and more about the novel, at Wikipedia. You can listen to the novel at YouTube:
And if you want to learn more about the dustbowl and what it meant for Oklahoma and neighboring states, I highly recommend the Ken Burns documentary, Dustbowl.
Check out the Twitter stream for information and fun stuff during the day, or click here for the previous week's announcements.
