Week 2: Myth-Folklore Reading A and B, plus Extra

For the reading this week, you'll explore the reading options for the whole semester (that's the Reading A assignment), and then there's a short anthology of stories to read (that's the Reading B assignment). There's also an extra credit reading option this week too if you are looking to rack up some extra credit points now at the start of the semester (which I highly encourage you to do!).

Reading A — Reading B — Extra Credit

Reading A : UnTextbook Reading Options

The first reading assignment for this week is an overview of the Myth-Folklore UnTextbook where you will find all the readings for the rest of the semester: Overview of the UnTextbook. Then, after you have read the UnTextbook overview, you can start exploring the UnTextbook units to see what you think about the different reading options. Plan on spending about a half hour exploring any/all units that grab your attention, bookmarking the pages that you might want to return to later on.

When you are done, write up a blog post with your thoughts about the kinds of reading you think you are going to want to choose. You don't need to make your choices now; the idea is just to get a good idea about what's coming! Include at least three links to reading units and/or specific stories you are most interested in with a sentence or two to remind yourself later what grabbed your attention for each one.

For the blog post, use "Reading Options" in the title, with "Reading, Week 2" as the labels, and include at least one image (with image information). Here is the Declaration for Reading A:

Reading B : Myth-Folklore Anthology... and reading like a writer

For your actual story reading this week, I have prepared an anthology of stories from the UnTextbook that is also a preview of the Google Sites platform where you might be publishing your class project this semester: Myth-Folklore Anthology.

As you read through the stories, you need to start reading like a writer. You are not taking notes that you will use for a quiz; instead, you are taking notes that will help you to tell your own story, based on one of the stories in the reading. You will be writing these Reading Notes blog posts every week, and here are the instructions for that assignment: Reading Notes Post.

Extra Credit

For this week's extra credit option, I'd like to introduce you to the Crash Course: Mythology video series at YouTube. There are 35 short videos in this series, and I've arranged them into groups of 3 and 4 so that you can do up to 10 weeks of extra credit this way if you like the series; each video group will take about an hour to watch and write notes, which is the same amount of time you would budget for a regular reading assignment.

If you want to get started, begin with this set: Overview of Mythology: What is Myth? Theories of Myth. The Hero's Journey and the Monomyth. 

For videos, you will take notes just like for a regular reading notes post, and then you can do the Extra Credit Reading Declaration at Canvas after you have posted your notes.