Discussion Question 9: The Decameron

tell us a story...

This week's discussion is different; it is really less a discussion than a share week. After binge-watching The Mandalorian and The Umbrella Academy, I find myself watching a lot (too much?) of Games Done Quick runs on Twitch. I have two novels working at the same time, and I'm doing my best to avoid the news. Like the young men and women in Boccacio's frame story, I'm doing my best to lighten my life a bit during the pandemic.

I am guessing I am not alone.

• This week, we are each going to share a story, something (not too racy or morbid please, even thouogh the Decameron never balks at some pretty spicy stories).

  And do not feel you must limit yourself to "great literature" (though if that is what you most like, well, OK :)

  It can be old or new, a folk tale, genre piece, experimental work, American story or something from the wider world (Haruki Murakami has some fantastic stories, for example).

If it is something you find on the internet, you can just share the link (make sure it works), or you can copy/paste the story into your POST. If it's something you have in a book and you have a scanner, you can scan and upload the file to the Discussion Board. It's not ideal (many things are not these days), but you could even take photos of pages with your phone and upload/attach the .jpg files to the discussion board, though Canvas has some limitations there, so you might find yourself INSERTING several .jpg files into a single Word .docx and uploading/attaching THAT file to the Discussion Board.

If none of that works, you can TELL THE STORY (yes, you could record a video or audiio file and upload/attach that, or you can type it out in your own words, keeping the spirit of the original in your re-telling, which is actually what the characers in the book did).

I'm going to get us started. I'll go over to the Discussion Board and POST a couple of stories for the class; they are quite different from one another, and I think you will enjoy them (I'm sure you'll let me know).