Class Procedures and Reminders
Week 10 closing. As you can see in Canvas, the Week 10 Module is still available as part of the mega-grace period. It's there now and will be there until noon on Monday. So if you want to do any of those Week 10 assignments, now is the time to get those done. (Then Week 11 will have a long grace period that goes through next week, etc.). I hope that will be helpful for anybody who's been facing some chaos since coming back to school after Break.
Project Stack. I'll try to update the stack periodically today, so you can check the stack to make sure I received your assignment. On Monday, I'll start replying to the assignment in the order turned in, starting with the assignments that were still in the stack at the end of last week.
The following items are for fun and exploration:
Blog Stream. One of the Tech Tips is about creating word clouds, and Hannah made a really beautiful one: This Strange Time in the World.
And here's a S-P-R-I-N-G acrostic poem from a third-grader in Mrs. Yollis's class (all her students have their own blogs!); look for the letters of spring at the start of each line:
And for a different way to tell the gods' stories, try Epic Rap Battle! (Be warned, this one is NSFW.)
Proverbs. You can see Zeus (Jupiter) here in a proverb from the Roman poet Ovid: If Jupiter hurled his thunderbolt as often as men sinned, he would soon be out of thunderbolts.
Indian Epics Today. Today's character is Vishvamitra, the wise man (rishi) who becomes Rama's teacher. More about Vishvamitra. Here you see him urging Rama and his brother to fight the rakshasi named Thataka.
Writing. And for those of you who might be writing or revising your project today, here's some writing advice from Gary Provost:
Writing Video. This video is useful to ponder if you find yourself struggling with the maximum word count when you write a story: The power of creative constraints.
April 5: Palm Sunday. This year, Easter Sunday falls on April 12, which means that today is Palm Sunday, the Sunday before Easter when Jesus entered Jerusalem, as you can see in the painting by Lorenzetti below. The name of the holiday comes from the palm branches that the people scattered in front of Jesus as he entered the city:
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