Sunday, September 6

Today is Sunday of Week 2. I hope you are having a great weekend! If you have not finished up the Week 2 assignments yet, today is the day to do that. Here is a link to Week 2, and Week 3 is ready to go too!

Class Procedures and Reminders

Project Stack. As project assignments come in, I'll periodically update the stack, so you can check the stack to make sure I received your assignment. On Tuesday (after the Labor Day holiday), I'll start reading and replying to the assignments in the order that they were turned in. (The sooner you turn that in, the sooner you'll get comments back from me.)

Check-in and Connect. An extra credit option I highly recommend is the check-in and connect; people have added some really nice things to the Padlet! If you want to add a YouTube, just paste in the YouTube address and the video will display right there in the Padlet.


Labor Day. Because Monday is a holiday, the usual grace period for finishing up Week 2 is extended until Tuesday morning. So, if you do not finish up the Week 2 items on Sunday, you can do that on Monday if that is more convenient for you. (You'll see the final Week 2 items are listed as "available until Sep 8 at 11:59am" there in Canvas.)

The following items are for fun and exploration:

Blog stream. There's another Storybook up and running; it's from Libby! Scandal Damsel: All the Gossip on Your Favorite Princesses.


Twitter stream. One of my Twitter friends, Legonium, is doing a Lego version of Vergil's epic Aeneid! 


Reynard the Fox is one of my favorite folklore tricksters; here's a medieval illustration from the British Library:


And here's some Bhangra from Gurdeep Pandher in the Yukon:


Storybook. And here's a Rick-and-Morty mash-up with Indian Epics: Reincarnations of the Smith Family.


100-Word Stories. This is one of the most famous Nasruddin stories: Nasruddin Takes Sides.


And here's a video from Crash Course: What is myth?


And here's a word from mythology: COLOSSAL, from Greek kolossos.


And here's a word that comes to English from India: ZEN... from Sanskrit dhyana. (And for more about Zen, see below.)


September 6: Robert Pirsig. Today marks the birthday of Robert Pirsig, who was born in 1928; he died in 2017. He is the author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. I first read this book when I was 16 years old and I've read it again probably another 20 times or more. It's about a motorcycle journey that Pirsig took across the country in 1968 together with his young son, Chris. Below is a picture from the trip, and you can learn more about Pirsig in this Wikipedia article. He was a remarkable thinker and writer.



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