What's Scheduled for this Week:

COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING TASKS:

• First, listen to my short weekly audio lecture. You can listen to the lecture in either Real Audio format or you can listen to the lecture in Windows Media format.
• Next, explore the following links:
  • Look over a long list of Practical Jokes
  • Read a tall tale told by a folklore student. Note how a good tall tale draws you in, works to get you to suspend your disbelief, then hits you with the some huge exaggeration.
  • Read a few traditional tall tales
  • Visit a humor links site and the Comedyorama site that contains links to lots of humor.
  • Take a look around the HumorMatters site and see if you agree with their premise that humor has great therapeutic power.
  • Visit a site that looks at why we laugh, and the site also has a few good links to more humor analysis.
•  Take a 30 question quiz over the first 9 weeks (Before you take the quiz, look over the homefun sheets from the first nine weeks. If you can easily answer the questions on the homefun sheets, you are likely ready to take the quiz. You will not get an e-mail scored result for this quiz).
•   Homefun on Humor (although this is a graded homefun option, your second homefun sheet is not due until the end of next week. You have the option of doing either the homefun on fairy tales or the homefun on humor for your 2nd graded homefun sheet.
• Read 269--344.
• Post to the Discussion Board