Update 8PM: It looks like Microsoft has fixed the problem now. :-)
Today is Monday of Week 6. (Yes, the semester really is one-third over!) Here is a link to Week 6 (and if you are finishing up Week 5 during the grace period this morning, here is Week 5). I hope you will enjoy the new readings this week: it's the Middle East or India again in Myth-Folklore, while you will be starting the Mahabharata in Indian Epics! (Of the two epics, the Mahabharata is my favorite; I am very curious what you all will think.)
Class Procedures and Reminders
Project Stack. As always, the project stack is HUGE on Monday. While you are waiting on comments back from me about your project, you can check the stack to make sure it's there. I'll be replying in the order received, starting with projects that were left in the stack at the end of the week on Friday.
Start the week with extra credit. If you put off doing the extra credit until the end of the week, you might run out of time, but you can do Week 6 extra credit at the start of the week, or at any time during the week. So, if you feel like tinkering with your blog to add new features or playing with some meme generators, etc., you can do that for extra credit this week.
The following items are for fun and exploration:
Blog stream. As we get deep into the semester, it's nice to think about all the beautiful places out there, so for today's blog stream item, I snagged a picture from the favorite places posts from back at the start of the semester: this is a gorgeous sunset in San Luis Obispo California; you can read more at Cade's post.
Twitter stream. A friend of mine who teaches first-year English comp asks his students to create memes, and here's a fun writing meme that one of his students made:
And a friend of mine from Scotland shared this: remember all those pandemic photos of wildlife returning to the cities? Well, here's Nessie in Inverness!
100-Word Stories. Speaking of the moon, here's a famous Nasruddin story: Nasruddin Rescues the Moon.
Check out the Twitter stream for information and fun stuff during the day, or click here for past announcements.
Today is Monday of Week 6. (Yes, the semester really is one-third over!) Here is a link to Week 6 (and if you are finishing up Week 5 during the grace period this morning, here is Week 5). I hope you will enjoy the new readings this week: it's the Middle East or India again in Myth-Folklore, while you will be starting the Mahabharata in Indian Epics! (Of the two epics, the Mahabharata is my favorite; I am very curious what you all will think.)
Class Procedures and Reminders
Project Stack. As always, the project stack is HUGE on Monday. While you are waiting on comments back from me about your project, you can check the stack to make sure it's there. I'll be replying in the order received, starting with projects that were left in the stack at the end of the week on Friday.
Start the week with extra credit. If you put off doing the extra credit until the end of the week, you might run out of time, but you can do Week 6 extra credit at the start of the week, or at any time during the week. So, if you feel like tinkering with your blog to add new features or playing with some meme generators, etc., you can do that for extra credit this week.
The following items are for fun and exploration:
Blog stream. As we get deep into the semester, it's nice to think about all the beautiful places out there, so for today's blog stream item, I snagged a picture from the favorite places posts from back at the start of the semester: this is a gorgeous sunset in San Luis Obispo California; you can read more at Cade's post.
Storybook. And here's a lovely Storybook about the sun and about the moon: Dear Sun, Sincerely Moon.
And from JoAnn Palmeri who works in Bizzell Library, a lovely photo of the clock tower by the library:
And here's Goodnight, Moon for the pandemic: Goodnight, Zoom...
And just to remind everyone that the Indian Epics tradition involves theater too, here's a video with theater professor and puppeteer, Kathy Foley, about the power of masks in epic performance:
And a related video about the shadow-puppet theater tradition of south Asia:
September 28: Yom Kippur. Sunset yesterday began the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, the "Day of Atonement," which lasts until sunset this evening. You can read more about Yom Kippur at Wikipedia; the image below shows Jews Praying in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur, a painting by Maurycy Gottlieb (1878).
One of my favorite musicians is the late, great Leonard Cohen, and one of his most famous songs, Who by Fire, draws on Jewish prayers from Rosh Hashanah (New Year's) and Yom Kippur; find out more. Here's the song, live, with an amazing solo by Javier Mas on the archlute to begin:
One of my favorite musicians is the late, great Leonard Cohen, and one of his most famous songs, Who by Fire, draws on Jewish prayers from Rosh Hashanah (New Year's) and Yom Kippur; find out more. Here's the song, live, with an amazing solo by Javier Mas on the archlute to begin:
Check out the Twitter stream for information and fun stuff during the day, or click here for past announcements.
