And now... CONGRATULATIONS! I hope you all had a good time with the reading and storytelling this week. In Week 1, you became bloggers, and now in Week 2, you are storytellers! Thank you for being willing to try these new things; I really appreciate all the work you are doing so that we have this blog network full of stories now.
Class Procedures and Reminders
Announcements. At the end of the week it's a good idea to review the week's announcements to see if you missed anything important. There's even an extra credit option for doing that: Review and Back Up. (You'll see it there on the list of all the various extra credit options which are available each week.)
Project Stack. As people turn in their project assignments, I'll add them to the stack. Then, while you are waiting on feedback from me, you can check the stack to make sure I received your assignment. I'll be including a link to the stack every day in the announcements from now on.
The following items are for fun and exploration:
Blog stream. One of the extra credit Tech Tip options is to explore the options for making memes at Cheezburger. Morgan made a cat! Here's her post. And here's the Tech Tip. :-)
Twitter stream. I follow the Gilcrease Museum, and for those of you who will be in Tulsa, there is a new exhibit that looks wonderful: Mexican Modernism: Revolution & Reckoning.
Storybook. And to get ready for the Ramayana next week in Indian Epics, here's a Ramayana-based Storybook: Super Ramayana Bros.
100-Word Stories. And here's an Aesop's fables with a warning just to say cool and don't sweat the small stuff: The Bear and the Bees.
And here's one of those sneaky English spelling things: Bear v. Bare.
Announcements. At the end of the week it's a good idea to review the week's announcements to see if you missed anything important. There's even an extra credit option for doing that: Review and Back Up. (You'll see it there on the list of all the various extra credit options which are available each week.)
Project Stack. As people turn in their project assignments, I'll add them to the stack. Then, while you are waiting on feedback from me, you can check the stack to make sure I received your assignment. I'll be including a link to the stack every day in the announcements from now on.
The following items are for fun and exploration:
Blog stream. One of the extra credit Tech Tip options is to explore the options for making memes at Cheezburger. Morgan made a cat! Here's her post. And here's the Tech Tip. :-)
Twitter stream. I follow the Gilcrease Museum, and for those of you who will be in Tulsa, there is a new exhibit that looks wonderful: Mexican Modernism: Revolution & Reckoning.
And wow, from the Smithsonian Twitter feed, I learned something new about this old Stephen Foster song: although it was later used in minstrel shows, it was originally written as an anti-slavery song: The Complicated Legacy of ‘My Old Kentucky Home.’
Plus one more thing from Twitter, one of my favorite Indian authors is Usha Narayanan; she shared this wonderful photo with a Narasimha statue (Vishnu's lion-man avatar): that's a selfie!
And I found this amazing Ramayana video yesterday thanks to someone in class who is studying ASL: Silent Ramayana.
100-Word Stories. And here's an Aesop's fables with a warning just to say cool and don't sweat the small stuff: The Bear and the Bees.
And here's one of those sneaky English spelling things: Bear v. Bare.
And here's a thought to inspire your writing: Start writing!
September 4: Mary Renault. Today, September 4, marks the birthday of the English novelist Mary Renault who was born in 1904 and died in 1983. Renault wrote novels based on ancient Greek myths and history, including a trilogy of novels about Alexander the Great. The middle novel of that Alexander trilogy — The Persian Boy — is my own personal favorite of her novels. The novel is narrated by Bagoas, the Persian boy whom Alexander took as his lover. Renault was one of the first historical novelists to write openly about homosexual love in ancient Greece, and the story she tells in The Persian Boy is intense, dramatic, and unforgettable. Highly recommended!
Check out the Twitter stream for information and fun stuff during the day, or click here for past announcements.
