Improvements for the class

I think this class is pretty up to my standards on all fronts. I really enjoyed the way this class was set up, and how to contact the professor if we ever had any questions! I think one thing that might be an improvement would be to have some writing tutorial videos like Ms. Gibbs said! I think this would be a really good idea for the people who are more visually inclined than reading about something. I know there are times where I am confused by the guidelines on something, and it might be easier if there was a video showing us how to complete something!

Reading Notes: Hans Christian Andersen unit Part B

To continue this week’s reading notes, I chose to do the Andersen Fairy Tales unit and choose a section from the Little Mermaid. I chose this story because I thought it would go great with my last story notes I did. So to finish my story, I would have the Queen and her son, the Prince go through many challenges and test to see if this Princess was actually a Princess. The Princess would be trying to convince the Queen and Prince she was in fact a real Princes, even though they knew she was not. The Queen and Prince would go through many challenges to realize that she was still not who she says she was. Each time there was a test, the supposed Princess would fail yet again. The Prince would be so infatuated that he did not care she failed all of them. Eventually after many trials, the Princess would be found to be a mermaid of the ocean. She would be a magical Princess who could form into a mermaid whenever she wanted something on land. After years of the Prince accepting his Princess being a mermaid, they would live happily ever after, until one day the mermaid would be missing… along with all of the Prince’s prized belongings.

Mermaid Princess

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This story is part of the Andersen Fairy Tales unit. Story source: Fairy Tales and Stories by Hans Christian Andersen, translated by H. P. Paull (1872).

Reading Notes: Hans Christian Andersen unit Part A

For this week’s story, I chose to do a section from the story from the Andersen Fairy Tales unit: The Princess and the Pea. This story is about a prince that was wanting to find a real Princess, but anywhere he traveled, he could not find the one he wanted to marry, or truly thought was a real Princess. After one rainy night, a Princess came knocking at the gate of the castle who did not have the characteristics of what a real Princess looked like, although she claimed she was one. Then the Queen did not fully believe she was a real Princess who was fit for her son, so she put a pea in the bottom of a twenty mattress bed to see if she could feel the pea the next morning after her sleep. The next morning, the princess did feel the pea, which meant she was a real princess. I would change this story to where the Princess came to the castle after a storm still, and slept in the bed where the pea was hidden. Except in the morning, she would wake up and not have felt anything. So the queen and her son, the Prince, would be very sad to know she was not a true Princess. But the Prince would be so infatuated with this fake princess, and would not want to get rid of her quite yet, so he would ask the Queen if they would be able to do anymore challenges to see what she truly would be…

Princess

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This story is part of the Andersen Fairy Tales unit. Story source: Fairy Tales and Stories by Hans Christian Andersen, translated by H. P. Paull (1872).

Growth Mindset: My Editing Challenges

For this week's Growth Mindset challenge, I chose to do more editing challenges. When it comes to writing my stories, I always try and go back through to double check that I am not missing anything important. As this class has continued throughout the semester, I have found a lot of editing challenges that have helped me a lot. One thing that I have found helps me a lot is to have two windows on my computer open. One screen has the original story I am reading from, and one where I am starting my own story. That way, I can re read the source and make sure I am not doing anything to similar to the original, and not too far away. A lot of the time, I will find that I have strayed too far from the original- almost to where there is nothing connecting the two! So it always helps me to re read the original and make sure I am on the right track. I have found that this helps me especially when I am doing Wednesday's reading in case my mind starts to wonder and I don't have a good enough story. So, re reading the source is great way to help you stay on track when you feel like you are wondering off too much!

Growth Mindset

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Tech Tip: Reverse Image Search

For this tech tip, I chose to do the reverse image search, which actually comes in handy more than you would think! There have been a couple blog posts I've done that need a smaller, or larger image than what I could find, so now that I know how to do this, it will be easier to find different sizes of images.

Ravana Mask

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Reading Notes: Italian Popular Tales unit Part A

For this week’s reading notes I chose to do a story from the Italian Popular Tales unit. I liked the section from this story The Cat and the Mouse. To me, I felt like this story was a little repetitive but I loved the idea. This story is about a cat who is wanting to get married and is waiting for each animal to come by and swoon her. She does not care for any animal, except a mouse that stops to sing for her. Eventually the mouse dies in the cat’s food she is preparing, and gets very sad. Everything in the house becomes sad with the cat, which causes outside people/things to get sad as well. So I would change the story by having the cat not trying to get married, but trying to live her life. Every animal would want this cat to be their own wife and she would always refuse. One day a tiny little mouse would approach her, but little did he know that the cat was absolutely terrified of mice. So, she would scream and run around the house trying to avoid this little mouse, while all along he would just be trying to wed her. On the other hand, she would have been wanting to get married for quite some time and would never find the right guy, until the mouse. The mouse would never give up on trying to become her husband, so she eventually learned to live with a mouse in the house. The two would eventually fall in love and live happily ever after, even though her fear of mice would never fully be gone. 

Cat and Mouse

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This story is part of the Italian Popular Tales unit. Story source: Italian Popular Tales by Thomas Frederick Crane (1885).

Reading Notes: Looking-Glass unit Part B

For the second part of this week's stories, I chose to do the section My Own Invention. This story was a little different from the first section I had chosen because one had to do with a nursery rhyme, while this section was a little different. I would change this section of the story to where Alice and Humpty are trying to avoid crossing over the huge wall they stumbled upon in the first section. When they realized the only way to pass the wall was to climb over it, they would have a choice to make: either climb over it, or go back the way they came. They both would talk about it and decide to very carefully climb over the wall. After a long time of them trying to make it over the wall, Humpty would slip and fall, luckily for him he would not break himself, but just knock himself out. Humpty would dream of meeting the Red King. In his dream, the Red King would send all of his men to try and put Humpty back together, but in real life he would not be broken. While Humpty was in a deep coma-like sleep, Alice would be trying to wake him up. She would remember what Humpty told her about the King coming to fix him if he ever fell, so she would run off to try and find the King. After finding the King, she would try and direct him back to her friend who would gone when she returned…

Red King

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This story is part of the Looking-Glass unit. Story source: Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll (1871).