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Wednesday, February 5
Today is Wednesday of Week 4. Here is a link to the Week 4 assignments. I hope you are enjoying the reading!
Class Procedures and Reminders
Snow Day. It's the 2020 snowpocalpyse: campus is closed. For this class, a campus closure doesn't affect the schedule. For some of you, in fact, canceled classes on campus might be a chance to get ahead in this class, which is always a good strategy to follow. Meanwhile: stay SAFE and WARM, especially if you have to be out and about for work. And if you do miss some classwork because of the weather, don't worry: you can make up missing assignments with extra credit at any time, no problem.
Project Stack. If you turned in your project before noon on Sunday, you should have comments back from me. I'll keep working on the Sunday assignments today; meanwhile, you can check the stack to make sure I received your assignment.
Introduction comments. I think I have left a comment on everyone's Introduction, but if I missed yours, please let me know! There's no easy way for me to check that I commented on each one, so it's easy for me to miss someone by accident. If so, just let me know. :-)
The following items are for fun and exploration:
Project Stream. There are several project sites that have gone up already, and Robert in Myth-Folklore has been working ahead, so he has already added a third story to his Storybook; you might want to take a look! He's doing an Odyssey-as-reality-TV show, Odysseus vs. Wild. (Later this week, I should be able to put up the first list of class projects for the semester with the first Storybook and Portfolio sties.)
Indian Epics Today. Yesterday's character was Sita's sister Urmila, so today, of course, it's Sita: more about Sita. Some of you in Indian Epics may be watching this film about Sita as your reading choice next week: Sita Sings the Blues by Nina Paley.
100-Word Stories. Today's story is the legend of Sita's past life as a woman named Vedavati: Ravana and Vedavati (click title for more info).
Event on Campus. Campus events scheduled for today have been canceled because of the winter weather. Follow the OUDaily feed for the latest information.
February 5: Inayat Khan. Today marks the anniversary of the death of the Indian Sufi teacher, Inayat Khan, in the year 1927. Inayat Khan's teachings centered on Tawhid, or unity, which you can read about in this Wikipedia article. Inayat Khan was also trained as a music master, so in addition to sharing a knowledge of Sufism with the West, he also spread a knowledge of traditional Indian music:
