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Monday, August 26
Today is Monday of Week 2, and here is a link to the Week 2 assignments. This week the actual reading and telling of stories will begin, so I hope you will have fun with all of that! And if you are finishing up Week 1 during the grace period this morning, here's that link: Orientation.
Class Procedures and Reminders
Week 2: Reading A. Each week, the first assignment is the reading, which comes in two parts: Part A and Part B. Check your schedule to see if you are doing any reading today; a lot of people will be doing the Reading A assignment today, and some of you may be doing both Reading A and Reading B. You can find all the details on the Week 2 page: Reading.
Extra Credit. You don't need to wait until the end of Week 2 to try out those extra credit options; if there is something you want to try, you can do some extra credit at the beginning of the week. Any time is a good time to explore and try new things! Here are the Week 2 extra credit options.
The following items are for fun and exploration:
Blog Stream. Here's another great photo from a favorite places post; this is Cade's photo of Positano, Italy!
Indian Epics Today. And today's Indian Epics character is one of the old Vedic deities, Indra, the storm-god whose weapon is the thunderbolt, and whose vahana, or vehicle, is the elephant Airavata. More about Indra.
Story of the Day. Today's story is a Nigerian folktale that explains Why the Fish Lives in Water. According to this story, the fish used to live on the land with other animals... like the leopard.
India Video. In this video, you can learn about the Indian instrument called Sarod.
Words. Here's a word from mythology, CHAOS, Greek χάος: the world originally was "chaos," a void without form or shape, literally the "gap" between heaven and earth at the beginning of creation. Find out more.
H.E.A.R.T.. Are there other Doctor Who fans in the class? Here is the Doctor's TARDIS to inspire your reading this week: Every book is a TARDIS!
HEART Video. Here is someone who knows how to explore: it's Matt Harding, who has taken his dance all over the world.
Event on Campus. The Norman Singers are a non-audition choir; you can come join in on Monday nights, 7PM-9PM, in the Catlett Music Hall Choir Room. Find out more atNormanSingers.org.
August 26: The 19th Amendment. On this day in 1920, 99 years ago, the 19th Amendment went into effect: women could no longer be denied the right to vote in the U.S. You can read more about the amendment in Wikipedia. Many of the suffragettes fighting for the vote were also abolitionists fighting to end slavery, like the great Sojourner Truth; her famous "Ain't I a woman?" speech was delivered at the 1851 Women’s Rights Convention held in Akron, Ohio. You can read one version of the speech here, and the portrait below is Sojourner Truth's visiting card, circa 1864. "I sell the shadow to support the substance" means that Sojourner Truth refused to let others profit from selling her portrait; she claimed exclusive rights to sell her "shadow" to support the substance, which was the cause of Emancipation.
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