Wednesday, October 7

Today is Wednesday of Week 7. Here is a link to Week 7, and I hope you are finding some good story material you can use from the reading this week to use in your own story! It's a storytelling week again this week. :-)

Class Procedures and Reminders

Project Stack. If you turned your project in on Saturday or on Sunday morning, you should have comments back from me now, and I'll start working on the Sunday afternoon items today. As always, you can check the stack to make sure I received your project.

Week 13 / Thanksgiving. I'm guessing you all know about OU's decision to move all classes online after Thanksgiving Break. That's definitely going to be a bit weird, although at least it is not as sudden and unexpected as last Spring's move. Obviously this class is already online, plus it is set up so that everybody can finish BEFORE Thanksgiving if you want, and that might be a great way to manage any chaos in your other classes. See Mondays' announcements for details about the Week 13 option.

The following items are for fun and exploration:

Blog stream. This is actually not from the blog stream, but from a Portfolio site; Saad used the three-image layout option in Google Sites to present all the characters in the story, and it looks really cool; you can see the story page here: The Malnourished Forest.



And at the New Inquiry, a fascinating article about the Ramayana in modern India: All The Factory’s A Stage.


And here's some flash fiction (i.e. stories under 1000 words, like what you write from this class) published by an OU professor, Julie Ann Ward, whom you can find at Twitter; the story is here: Plea.


Storybook. Here's a wonderful Storybook from Myth-Folklore last year: How to Join an Immortal Girl Gang.


100-Word Stories. And an Aesop's fable featuring a goddess: Athena and the Shipwreck.


And inspired by that giant Atlas statue above, I wanted to share this video about a giant statue honoring Jatayu in India, the great bird-hero of the Ramayana, now familiar to everyone in the Indian Epics class:


From Liniers, a cartoon about reading, and dreaming about reading (larger view):


And from Grant Snider, a new comic: Chatter (larger view).


October 7: Poe. Today is the anniversary of the death of Edgar Allan Poe, who died on this day in 1849; you can read more about his life and career at Wikipedia. The Penn Online Books page contains a list of his books which are available online. Below is an image of the cover designed by the famous illustrator Gustave Dore for Poe's  poem, The Raven:


And here's a Raven video:


Check out the Twitter stream for information and fun stuff during the day, or click here for past announcements.
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