tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8425297700633081722024-02-06T21:13:41.314-06:00My Tale SpinnerNotes for an emerging OER project...Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.comBlogger114125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842529770063308172.post-51998841756916277772019-09-14T21:02:00.003-05:002019-09-14T21:02:52.164-05:00Day 113. My class project websiteI'm still stuck working on the book proposal, but at least there is some good rabbit energy going on: I set up the website for my Myth-Folklore class project about Brer Rabbit and the Witch-Rabbit. I missing getting to work on Brer Rabbit every day like during the summer, but this is something anyway. I'm excited about getting Taily-Po ready for Halloween!<br />
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Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842529770063308172.post-8133917246885948152019-09-09T21:17:00.004-05:002019-09-09T21:17:58.266-05:00Day 112. Book dilemmaI was already scrambling when the school year started, and now I've got another dilemma; I've been asked to write a book proposal about teaching online. I debated about whether to submit the proposal or not, but I decided it was important to give it a try. So, I'm working on the book proposal right now, and if it goes through, Brer Rabbit will be on a back burner not just during the school year but next summer too.<br />
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With stories like this, it is clear why there would be so much good synergy between the rabbits of Native American storytelling traditions and the trickster rabbits of the African American traditions. It's not about proving origins as in some folklore studies, but instead about the great new stories and new versions of old stories that resulted from all this storytelling energy. I really want to find a way to make my Brer Rabbit anthology reflect all that rabbit energy at work!<br />
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Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842529770063308172.post-25000047355474495492019-09-01T10:39:00.001-05:002019-09-01T10:39:30.933-05:00Day 109. Rabbit and ribbonsI <a href="https://religiousreading.blogspot.com/2019/09/week-3-reading-aesops-tortoise-and-hare.html">did some research</a> this morning for the version of Tortoise and Hare I want to write for my Week 3 story in Myth-Folklore, and I had one of those great folklore moments: in Harris's version, there is reference to Rabbit wearing ribbons (not so tortoise), and the illustrators pick up on that, but it's not motivated in the story at all. But if you look at Native American versions of the story, there are references to the contestants wearing <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015000708993&view=1up&seq=52">ribbons</a> or <a href="http://muskogee.blogs.wm.edu/files/2016/12/mus08009-analysis.pdf">feathers</a> (and so Turtle has to supply his substitutes with those markers also). I don't know if that is Native American innovation (which then passed on to Harris's informant), or if that is also in the African stories; I didn't have time to read through the African stories yet to look, but they are definitely in some Native American versions, so I will include that in mine too for sure. Here's <a href="https://olebrerrabbit.blogspot.com/2018/12/mr-rabbit-finds-his-match-at-last.html">Rabbit with ribbons</a>:<br />
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Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842529770063308172.post-86005233926261465622019-08-31T22:37:00.001-05:002019-08-31T22:37:35.633-05:00Day 108. Brer Rabbit units ready to goI finally got some time to work on Brer Rabbit, and I fixed up both the Brer Rabbit Units, <b><a href="http://mythfolklore.blogspot.com/search/label/Unit%3A%20Brer%20Rabbit%20I">O<span id="goog_431187755"></span><span id="goog_431187756"></span>ne</a></b> and <b><a href="http://mythfolklore.blogspot.com/search/label/Unit%3A%20Brer%20Rabbit%20II">Two</a></b>, at the UnTextbook. I'm really glad to have those new versions of the stories and all the illustrations ready for people to read. Each time I copied in the story without the eye-dialect (I had already removed the Uncle Remus frame), I felt so sure people would really enjoy the stories more. I ended up ditching two of the poems, but that worked out fine given that there were three poems I replaced with prose that was longer. I took reading notes also, finding favorite stories in all four parts: <b><a href="https://religiousreading.blogspot.com/2019/08/week-3-extra-reading-brer-rabbit-1-a.html">1-A</a></b>, <b><a href="https://religiousreading.blogspot.com/2019/08/week-4-extra-reading-brer-rabbit-1-b.html">1-B</a></b>, <b><a href="https://religiousreading.blogspot.com/2019/08/week-5-extra-reading-brer-rabbit-2-a.html">2-A</a></b>, and <b><a href="https://religiousreading.blogspot.com/2019/08/week-6-extra-reading-brer-rabbit-2-b.html">2-B</a></b>.<br />
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So, that's six or seven stories here at the blog, plus I'll do the Mammy-Bammy-Big-Money stories I think for the Storybook, so that's another three or four... the odds are looking good for ten stories this semester. :-)<br />
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Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842529770063308172.post-75880776174967080152019-08-30T20:01:00.002-05:002019-08-30T20:01:43.068-05:00Day 107. Planning for tomorrowSo, this week was just hard... I'm glad it's Friday! And what I thought I might do with this blog post is use it as a "tomorrow-agenda" approach, having in mind at the end of the day today what I want to do tomorrow. And since tomorrow is Saturday (glory hallelujah!), that means I can work on Myth-Folklore reading, which will I think needs to be fixing up the Brer Rabbit units in the UnTextbook, so that will be my goal for tomorrow. I am going to swap out the eye-dialect versions (I had stripped the frame, but not the eye-dialect) with my new versions, plus improving the notes:<br />
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Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842529770063308172.post-17112304466195719942019-08-29T21:21:00.004-05:002019-08-29T21:21:45.280-05:00Day 106. A fun invitation from OPBThis is relevant to the project I think! This morning I got a really fun email invitation to write a guest blog post for a new blog project at OpenPress Books, one of my favorite OA publisher. The idea is write something about OA, and for me that means the intersection of OA and OER, how accessible monographs means that I can recommend books to my students that, in the traditional publishing model, would not be accessible: at best we would have the book in the library, in which case one student could access it. But with OA online, that means an unlimited number of students can access the book title.<br />
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Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842529770063308172.post-28609017815364341432019-08-28T22:07:00.001-05:002019-08-28T22:07:59.661-05:00Day 105. Emily Zobel Marshall's Brer Rabbit book!I've been on a trip to Texas, and one of the best things was reading Emily Zobel Marshall's Brer Rabbit book on the plane: wow!<br />
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I learned so much that will be really useful going forward. One of the most exciting things is the Beatrix Potter connection: the invention of Peter Rabbit is indebted to the African American folktales published by Harris. Harris did a poor job of crediting his sources, and Beatrix Potter certainly did not indicate her debt to Harris, much less to the African storytellers at the heart of it all. I am really looking forward to exploring <b><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/292">Beatrix Potter's rabbit stories</a></b> based on what I have learned from Emily Zobel Marshall's book!<br />
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Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842529770063308172.post-31194990178819165892019-08-22T22:34:00.002-05:002019-08-22T22:34:36.519-05:00Day 104. Another historical visualizationI didn't have time to do any project work today, but I did see this great visualization tool from <b><a href="https://www.usatoday.com/pages/interactives/1619-african-slavery-history-maps-routes-interactive-graphic/">USAToday</a></b> of all places:<br />
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Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842529770063308172.post-38180559806044639772019-08-21T20:27:00.001-05:002019-08-21T20:27:36.199-05:00Day 103. AgendasSo, it looks like I might be taking on a book project; I've got a few weeks to put the proposal together, and it sounds like I would get a go-ahead before the end of the semester. I hesitated at first because it would set this project behind by a year, with my next summer working on a teaching-related project instead of Brer Rabbit. But the more I think about it, the more that seems like a good idea. I see myself shifting from teaching to OER, so taking an opportunity to sum up what I've learned about teaching in these past 20 years.<br />
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I did the wonderful Nigerian tortoise story today about why the elephant's eyes are so small: <b><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/story-of-the-day/elephant-tortoise-and-worm">The Elephant and the Tortoise</a></b>.<br />
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Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842529770063308172.post-59637075666039778102019-08-20T22:51:00.000-05:002019-08-20T22:51:35.929-05:00Day 102. Educational Malpractice...I didn't have time to work on the project directly today (although I did share a Brer Rabbit story as <b><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/story-of-the-day/possum-rabbit-bear">Story of the Day</a></b>!), but I keep seeing great stuff from the 1619Project, including this item that really got my attention:<br />
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Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842529770063308172.post-31542885230315205202019-08-19T23:06:00.002-05:002019-08-19T23:06:25.982-05:00Day 101. Emily Zobel Marshall on Brer RabbitFinally! Emily Zobel Marshall's book finally showed up as a Kindle; it had been listed as pre-order even though I knew the book was out, and something made me pop over and take a look, and there it was. It's ridiculously expensive ($35 for the Kindle, argh!), but I thought her Anansi book was wonderful, so of course I knew I had to read this one. Maybe I can manage to read this on my trip to Austin this weekend; I'm pretty tense about this visit, so having this book will be a great way to distract myself!<br />
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Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842529770063308172.post-14470001041243162992019-08-18T22:19:00.003-05:002019-08-18T22:20:12.104-05:00Day 100. Made it so far!It seems very appropriate to have Day 100 of the project coming exactly the day before classes start! So, I don't have a lot to write today, except to say: YAY, I made it!<br />
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And, thanks to a Nigerian folktale I was working on this morning, I did manage to stump Google Socratic by asking about bush cats! Details: <span style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://oudigitools.blogspot.com/2019/08/zuboff-chapter-4-how-google-got-away.html" style="font-weight: bold;">Zuboff, Chapter 4: How Google Got Away With It</a>.</span><br />
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And the story was such a great find, too; I recognized it right away as being parallel to the Anansi story about a chain of victims that I was working on a year ago and, kudos to Martha Beckwith: she had the Nigerian citation in her notes to the Anansi story: <b><a href="https://religiousreading.blogspot.com/2018/10/story-brer-anansi-borrows-money.html">Brer Anansi Borrows Money</a>.</b><br />
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Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842529770063308172.post-23928920494361401292019-08-17T22:01:00.001-05:002019-08-17T22:01:13.630-05:00Day 99. My first Brer Rabbit storyI'm working on the Week 2 assignments for Myth-Folklore, so I wrote my first Brer Rabbit story! Here it is:<br />
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I also did the <b><a href="https://religiousreading.blogspot.com/2019/08/week-2-topic-brainstorming-about-brer.html">brainstorming assignment</a></b>, thinking about four possible Storybook topics (and of course there were so many more I could think of!). I'm strongly leaning towards Mammy-Bammy Big-Money, but we'll see. I don't have to decide until I get back from Austin.Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842529770063308172.post-19762493584583928552019-08-16T11:17:00.001-05:002019-08-16T11:17:06.277-05:00Day 98. WikipediaSo, I've decided to start doing a "Wikipedia good deed of the day," adding references and external links to Wikipedia articles.<br />
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Today I added a list of Joel Chandler Harris books to the Brer Rabbit article, along with a Florence Baer citation.<br />
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That article is such a mess, and I'm not even sure how to clean it up really, but at least I made some kind of useful contribution.<br />
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I'm pasting in here the Baer citation so that I can use it again in other articles!<br />
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{{cite book<br />
|last=Baer<br />
|first=Florence<br />
|date=1980<br />
|title=Sources and Analogues of the Uncle Remus Tales<br />
|publisher=Folklore Fellows Communications<br />
|isbn= 9514103742<br />
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Here's the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Br%27er_Rabbit">Brer Rabbit article</a></b>, and a screenshot of the list I added; I was able to use Diigo to get a quick count of actual Brer Rabbit stories for each book!<br />
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Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842529770063308172.post-59247001303389962812019-08-14T22:27:00.001-05:002019-08-14T22:27:53.481-05:00Day 96. Pinterest BoardI was emailing with a student today talking about Tumblr and Pinterest, and that gave me the idea to make a Board with all the <b><a href="https://www.pinterest.com/laurakgibbs/j-c-harris-brer-rabbit-and-co/">Joel Chandler Harris stories</a></b> that have illustrations; I got about half-way through so far; I'll finish tomorrow.<br />
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Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842529770063308172.post-50451486123975372052019-08-13T20:58:00.002-05:002019-08-13T20:58:45.163-05:00Day 95. Getting ready to launch Nights siteThe Story-of-the-Day project is going really well (I'll be using that for my class announcements starting next week)... and now I think I am ready to try my reuse strategy, creating a Google Sites website for <i>Nights with Uncle Remus</i>. I've been <b><a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/laurakgibbs?query=%23SOD+%23book%3AJCHarrisNightsUncleRemus">using some <i>Nights</i> stories already as Story-of-the-Day</a></b>... and if I have time tomorrow, I'm going to create a <i>Nights </i>site where I will use those texts plus the other <b><a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/laurakgibbs?query=%23gdoc+%23book%3AJCHarrisNightsUncleRemus">stories from the <i>Nights</i> that I have turned into Google Docs</a></b>.<br />
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Part of me thinks I am not quite ready for this experiment... but part of me says I've just got to do it; otherwise, school is going to start officially on Monday, which means for several weeks I will be feeling completely discombobulated.<br />
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So, we'll see how it goes; I may or may not have a new site to share here tomorrow. Today's Story of the Day is one of the ones from <i>Nights</i>:<br />
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Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842529770063308172.post-13934865687009267562019-08-12T19:40:00.002-05:002019-08-12T19:40:52.669-05:00Day 94. #1619ProjectI am glad I saw this hashtag at Twitter today: <b><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/1619project?src=hashtag_click&f=live">#1619Project</a></b>. This is a project I will definitely want to follow to learn how it resonates with the work I am doing on the folktales.<br />
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Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842529770063308172.post-36556580505382148252019-08-11T16:53:00.003-05:002019-08-11T16:53:50.996-05:00Day 93. End of the first week of workSo the main thing I want to say in today's post is just: I DID IT. I started back to school work full-time last week, and I really wasn't sure just what would happen to my research goals for the project, but this week at least, I was able to reach my goals! Here it is Sunday afternoon, and I had a really nice weekend, plus the satisfaction of seeing a week's worth of work accomplished. I had a little bit of catching up to do today, especially with the Google Docs part of the project, but I learned from my struggle with that this week, so hopefully I can do a better job with that next week.<br />
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Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842529770063308172.post-62002962914387101962019-08-10T20:08:00.002-05:002019-08-10T20:08:38.740-05:00Day 92. Nigerian storiesSo, I worked on the <b><a href="http://mythfolklore.blogspot.com/search/label/Unit%3A%20Nigeria">Nigerian stories in the UnTextbook</a></b> today, and I already had to revise my reading plan: writing up notes for a unit with no notes (and this unit had no notes) is seriously time-consuming; instead of spending one hour on Part A, it took two hours. But that's okay! I really enjoyed all the stories and had good notes to take on them, so I counted that as two reading assignments, and that's just how long it's going to take. That means I probably won't write any new units for the UnTextbook this semester... but I will definitely be able to do a good job of revising and improving the African units I have already.<br />
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I also picked out a story to start researching: Chase 80, the story of Brer Wolf under the rock, Brer Rabbit who releases him, and Brer Terrapin as the judge who gets Wolf to go back under that rock. Klipple has lots of African variants, and I had bookmarked almost all of them, plus a couple that I have in books which are not public domain. That made me really confident that I will make good use of Klipple going forward; not only will I have her summaries of the stories (which are quite detailed), I will also have the stories themselves! <b><a href="https://religiousreading.blogspot.com/2019/08/reading-notes-week-2-anthology-tiger.html">Here are the notes I wrote</a></b> in my blog for class; it felt great to have my research from the summer spilling over into my class project already in Week 0!<br />
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Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842529770063308172.post-25875783410423412272019-08-09T19:45:00.003-05:002019-08-10T20:01:36.915-05:00Day 91. Reading plan for Fall semesterSo today school <i>really </i>started; even though the official start is 10 days from now, I had the classes ready so I sent around a note to the students to see if anyone wanted to get started, and 10 students did get started, so the blog stream is now live! That inspired me to finish up the first week's worth of assignments for Myth-Folklore, which included some thoughts about a reading plan for the Fall, and I am really excited at how perfectly it is going to fall into place: there are 40 reading assignments total including all the extra credit, which will work out perfectly for me to:<br />
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revise all 8 African units = 16 half-units, one by one (I'll do that during Weeks 2-3-4-5-6-7, finishing up before the Africa part of the semester begins!)<br />
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and then add 4 more African units = 8 half-units, with 3 passes each: one to gather the materials, one to add notes, and one to proofread ... which means they will be ready to go for next semester!<br />
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And since Saturday is the day of the week when I normally work on my schoolwork as a student, that means I can start on that tomorrow, beginning with the Brer Rabbit units.<br />
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So, after planning that out, I am so confident that I will get to sustain some good momentum, even though I am going to miss my summer of non-stop stories.<br />
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One of the African units right now has Jamaican Anansi stories from <b><a href="https://freebookapalooza.blogspot.com/2016/07/beckwith-jamaica-anansi-stories.html">Beckwith's book</a></b>, so I'll start gathering up GoogleDocs of those stories soon! And I am going to be reading those stories now with an awareness of the African context that I have never had before: so exciting!!!<br />
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I also reached this round-number milestone here in my diary: 90 days of work on this project so far, and today marks day 91! I never imagined how much I could accomplish in just 90 days: now I will just have to hope that it is enough momentum and also enough foundation to keep on going during the school year. :-)<br />
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Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842529770063308172.post-31288518459049985952019-08-08T21:40:00.002-05:002019-08-10T20:01:06.994-05:00Day 90. Slavery and the CensusWhile doing some research, I found this amazing set of <b><a href="https://lincolnmullen.com/projects/slavery/">maps by Lincoln Mullen</a></b> which shows Census data, county by county, for the spread of slavery, 1890-1860. So I learned that in 1850, 45% of the population of the county where I live now was enslaved...<br />
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Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842529770063308172.post-20876335934061812672019-08-07T22:36:00.001-05:002019-08-07T22:36:16.598-05:00Day 89. An introduction for the semesterSo today was really busy... but I'm going to keep writing in this blog each day even if I did not make any special discoveries, just to keep momentum going. I did write my class <b><a href="https://religiousreading.blogspot.com/2019/08/introduction-to-brer-rabbit-fanatic.html">Introduction</a></b> today, sharing with the Myth-Folklore students a little bit about my summer and what I hope to do in the class this semester.<br />
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I also did my first Harris story as Story of the Day: <b><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2Fview%2Fstory-of-the-day%2Fguinea-fowl-spots&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNESm0WEkN3egJvBB4fI0tAvSqzZMw">How Guinea-Fowls Got Their Spots</a></b>. It has a Shepherd illustration:<br />
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Plus, I included a Flickr slideshow for the Shepherd illustrations to <i>Nights with Uncle Remus</i>; I was impressed at how good the slideshow works in Blogger!<br />
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