Friday, March 6

HAPPY FRIDAY! Today is Friday of Week 8. Here is a link to Week 8, and also a link to the Week 9 for those of you who are working ahead. I hope the Review Week has been a productive experience so far!

Class Procedures and Reminders

Project Stack. If you turned something in on Sunday, you should have gotten comments back from me by now. I will read and reply to all the Week 7 projects in the stack today, and I will get through as many of the Week 8 and Week 9 projects as I can. Meanwhile, you can always check the stack to make sure I received your project. Anything left in the stack at the end of the day today will be at the top of the stack for Monday.

Spring Break. Yes, Spring Break is coming! The way that works is that during Week 9 (next week), there are the usual Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday blog post assignments on March 10-11-12. Then: Spring Break! So the end-of-week Week 9 assignments aren't due until that weekend after Spring Break: March 22. However, I would urge everybody to get ahead this weekend if possible so that you can finish all the Week 9 assignments before the break begins. That way, it can be a real Break! :-)

The following items are for fun and exploration:

Blog Stream. Audrey wrote a biography post about going to Maui, and it is full of wonderful pictures too. Just look at this beach picture: paradise!


Twitter Stream. The topic for #FolkloreThursday yesterday was female folklore, and so there was lots of good stuff going on, like this tweet about the Norse goddess Freya whose chariot is pulled by cats!


A Bigger Bookshelf. Today's book is another collection of legends from the Sioux, and it is also part of the Sioux reading unit coming up in the Myth-Folklore class: Myths and Legends of the Sioux by Marie McLaughlin.


Indian Epics Today. Today's featured character is Parashurama, who plays a role in both the Mahabharata and also in the Ramayana. You can read more about Parashurama, and here is an Epified video about him:


Storybooks. This is a wonderful Storybook from last semester with tales from Africa: Tales of the African Mother.


India Video. I thought you might enjoy this quick Epified video: Indian and Greek Mythological parallels.



Myth-Folklore Video. Plus another exciting Crash Course video: Coyote and Raven, American Tricksters.


Words. The word for today is a name that originally comes from India via the Sanskrit language: SINGAPORE, from the Malay Singapura, from the Sanskrit, Simhapuram, which means "Lion-City." Find out more.


H.E.A.R.T.. Some words of wisdom about stories from Lori Dechesne: Everyone has a story left untold, so never judge someone as if you know their entire story because the truth is, you probably don't.


Mindset Cats. Today's cat is a creative cat: I think. I design. I create. I invent. I reflect. I learn.


Event on Campus. OU Campus Activities Council will be showing this year's Academy Best Picture Award winner Parasite at 6PM, 9PM and midnight in Meacham (details).


March 6: Andrzej Wajda. Today marks the birthday of one of the world's great film directors: Andrzej Wajda, who was born in 1926; he died in 2016, and you can read his obituary here in the Guardian newspaper. He made many amazing films, including a film about the massacre at Katyń during World War II in which his own father was killed. Here is a trailer with English subtitles:



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