Thursday, March 29

Today is Thursday of Week 10. If you have not wrottem your story yet for this week, that means today is Storytelling Day. It may have been a while since you wrote a story for class, so go wild! Here is a link to all of the Week 10 assignments.

Class Procedures and Reminders

Success Tip: Enjoy your curiosity. Curiosity is what fuels science and art, and education too. Enjoy it! And you can find out more here: The Science of Curiosity.

Project Stack. Today I'll finish up the assignments turned in on Sunday, and then I'll move on to the assignments turned in this week. While you are waiting on comments, you can check the stack to make sure I received your email.

The following items are for fun and exploration:

Blog Stream. Everybody can congratulate Chandi on her new puppy! Find out more: Famous Last Words.

Word from Mythology.Today's mythological word is : CHAOS, from Greek χάος. In the ancient Greek creation myth, the world originally was "chaos," a void without form or shape. The image below is the "Magnum Chaos," The Great Chaos, by Lorenzo Lotto:

India Video: And here's a video from BBC4 about Hindu creation stories.

Myth Book Online: Today's free book is about the Acoma Pueblo people of New Mexico: Origin Myth of Acoma by Matthew W. Stirling. See the Freebookapalooza blog for links and the table of contents.

Proverb of the Day: This is one of my favorite English sayings: Speak of the devil and he will appear. Find out more at the Proverb Laboratory.

Writing: Grant Snider has been thinking about what you might need in order to write.

H.E.A.R.T.: And don't be afraid to write something weird: Blessed are the Weird.

Growth Mindset: Today's growth mindset cat is feeling confident: I know I can do it. You can find out more at the Growth Mindset blog.

Video: On the subject of trees (see Arbor Day event below), I wanted to share this Maati Baani video in defense of the trees of Mumbia: Chipko Re.

And here's an Amar Chitra Katha graphic about the historic Chipko Re Movement.

Event on Campus: The annual Arbor Day celebration starts at 11:30AM in Burr Park, south of Sarkeys Fitness Center (details). Find out more about this and other events at the Campus Calendar online.

March 29: Denslow. Today marks the death of the illustrator William Wallace Denslow in 1915; find out more about his life and career at Wikipedia. He is best known today for his illustrations to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; here you can see Dorothy and her friends:

Denslow also did an illustrated Mother Goose. See the Freebookapalooza blog for links and the table of contents. This is an animated gif I made of some of the illustrations:

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