Tuesday, April 17

Today is Tuesday of Week 13, and I've re-arranged the Modules area in Canvas so the new week is on top. Here is a link to the Week 13 assignments. There are just two weeks of class left, plus Dead Week!

Class Procedures and Reminders

Success Tip: Plan out to the end. If you make your own plan now for finishing up the class, you can mix-and-match, choosing the assignments you enjoy most. Whatever combination of points you want to use will work, and as soon as you get to the points you need for the grade you want (410 A, 360 B, 320 C), you are done with the class.

Project Stack. If you turned in something before 3PM on Saturday, you should have received comments back from me. I'll finish the Saturday assignments today and hopefully I'll get started on the Sunday assignments. While you are waiting on comments back from me, you can check the stack to make sure I received your email.

The following items are for fun and exploration:

Blog Stream. Here's another great Wikipedia Trail: Erika is writing about Vritra in her Storybook, so she did From Vritra to the Tang Dynasty.

Word from India. The English word SHAWL is from the shawl-goats of Kashmir. And, yes, the word "cashmere" comes from the place-name, Kashmir.

Myth Video: And here's another one of the Crash Course videos about mythology; this time it's about Theories of Myth.

India Comic Book: Today's comic book is Tulsidas: The Poet Who Wrote Ram-Charit-Manas. See the Amar Chitra Katha blog for the Bizzell Reserve call number and more information.

Proverb of the Day: Today's proverb is the Polish version of "Rome wasn't built in a day" — Cracow wasn't built in a day. Find out more at the Proverb Laboratory.  It takes time to build any city, not just Rome. :-)

Writing: See a transcription at the blog post: Pixar’s 22 Rules of Storytelling.

H.E.A.R.T.: This advice is written for teachers, but it works for everybody: Improve Your Sleep.

Growth Mindset: Today's growth mindset cats are learning from their peers: Let another's success inspire you. You can find out more at the Growth Mindset blog.

Video: Here's a video that I've shared before but I wanted to share again since Dr. Barnes is giving a talk today on campus (see next item). Imaginary Friends and Real-World Consequences.

Event on Campus: Dr. Barnes will be talking to the Psychology Club about the psychology of fiction at 6PM in Dale Hall Tower 906 (details). Find out more about this and other events at the Campus Calendar online.

April 17: Benjamin Franklin. Today, April 17, marks the anniversary of the death of Benjamin Franklin in the year 1790; he was born in 1706. You can find out more in the long Wikipedia article about his life and various careers. There is a wonderful Latin verse composed in Franklin's honor by the French statesman Turgot: Eripuit caelo fulmen, sceptrumque tyrannis, "He ripped the lightning from the sky, and the sceptre from the tyrants." That verse inspired this allegorical portrait of Franklin from the year 1778; details here:

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