Monday, March 2

Today is Monday of Week 8, which is a Review Week. Here is a link to Week 8, and I hope you will enjoy this chance to look back on your work so far and look ahead to the second half of the semester! For those of you finishing up assignments during the grace period this morning, here is a link to Week 7.

Class Procedures and Reminders

Review Week. With no new reading or storytelling, this week is a good opportunity to work ahead of the deadlines. If you finish up the three Week 8 Review blog posts today (something I strongly recommend), you can finish up the rest of the Week 8 assignments (feedback, comments, project) before the weekend. And if you can do that, then you can get a head start on Week 9 also so that you are all caught up before Spring Break arrives!

Project Stack. This week is probably the busiest week of the semester for me with lots of new Portfolio and Storybook stories, so thank you in advance for your patience as I make my way through the huge stack. You can always check the stack to make sure I received your project. Today I'll be working on the projects people turned in on Thursday and Friday of last week, and I should be able to start on the Saturday items also.

The following items are for fun and exploration:

Blog Stream. There are lots of different graphic generators out there, and Alexis used this fun fortune cookie one as a Tech Tip; here's the graphic from her blog (and if you want to try some Tech Tips like this, there are lots of graphics options).

Twitter Stream.  I've seen lots of versions of this graphic, but this one is my favorite by far! I saw it at Twitter, and you can read more about the history of the meme from the person who started it years ago: The Evolution of an Accidental Meme.

A Bigger Bookshelf. Today's book is Ojibwa myths and legends by Sister Bernard Coleman, Ellen Frogner and Estelle Eich (published in 1961) with drawings by Ruth Maney; the book is available to read free online at Hathi Trust. All of Part II of the book is about the Ojibwa trickster, Nanabozho!

Indian Epics Today. The character for today is Karna, son of Kunti, and one of the heroes on the Kaurava side of the Mahabharata war. More about Karna, and here's an Epified video:

Storybooks. This is a Storybook from Indian Epics last year: The Mythic Arms Race.

Myth-Folklore Video. Here's another Crash Course video: Mythical Language and Idiom.

Proverbs. This is a Kashmiri proverb: If the bear had flour, would he not make bread?

H.E.A.R.T.. This is a nice metaphor for Review Week; it's a graphic by Sylvia Duckworth: Life is like a Camera.

Mindset Cats. The mindset cat has some mid-semester advice: Just keep going!

HEART Video. And on the subject of fear, some advice from Professor Lupin:

Event on Campus. It's A Night of Big Band Jazz at 7:30PM in Sharp Concert Hall (details).

March 2: Dr. Seuss. Today marks the birthday in 1904 of  Theodore Geisel, also known as Dr. Seuss. If you want to find out more about his life, his goals as a writer, including information about the poetic meters he used, take a look at this Wikipedia article. Dr. Seuss's books have been translated into many languages of the world — even Latin. Below is the book cover for The Cat in the Hat in Latin, Cattus Petasatus.

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