Monday, March 30

Today is Monday of Week 11, the second week of this impossible part of the semester; here's a link to Week 11 for those of you who are ready to get started on the new week. I'll close out Week 9 this morning at noon, but all the Week 10 assignments will still be available and they'll be available all this week. You can see that works at the class calendar.

I hope that the big grace period will give everyone the leeway you need, but if you have questions or problems with the calendar, just let me know and we'll figure something out.

Class Procedures and Reminders

Reading for Week 11. In both classes, Week 11 continues the reading options from Week 10: Krishna OR Jatakas in Indian Epics (details) and in Myth-Folklore, it's Native American traditions again (details). I hope you will enjoy the reading and find good ideas you can use for a story this week.

Project Stack. Thanks so much to everyone who turned in projects this weekend; I am really glad to have stories to read this week! You can check the stack to make sure I received your project, and today I'll start working through them in the order turned in. The stack is really big, so I have lots of stories this week. :-)

The following items are for fun and exploration:

Blog Stream. Here's a cute meme that Anhthu made at cheezburger, perfect for getting ready for another week ahead: Wake up with determination.

Twitter Stream. Someone shared this beautiful poem by Muriel Rukeyser about the power of writing:

And for a Corvid item, check out this meme project from OU's own History department! Check out that link for memes people have already posted.

Indian Epics Today. The character of the day today is the goddess PARVATI, whom you can see here with her son, the god Ganesha, when he was just a little one. You can find out more about Parvati here (and, yes, this is "Parvati" like the name of the character in Harry Potter).

Myth-Folklore Video. Here is a Crash Course video: Mythical Horses.

This video that shows how animals of all sizes and types are worthy of storytelling: Tiny Hamster is a Giant Monster!

Writing. There are lots of word mix-ups in English, and this is a fun one: IDLE versus IDOL.

Writing Video. And on the subject of English spelling, here's a useful video: Why is English Spelling So Weird?

March 30: Maxfield Parrish. Today marks the anniversary of the death of the American illustrator, Maxfield Parrish, who was born in 1870 and lived a very long life indeed; he died in 1966. You can read about Parrish's life and career in this Wikipedia article. Here is his illustration for Puss in Boots:

Parrish also did illustrations for this edition of The Arabian Nights.

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