Growth Mindset: Growth in Other Classes

I chose to do a Growth Mindset option for this extra credit because I want to see how some of my classes fall into the others. So I liked the option of the Growth in Other Classes. Throughout all of my classes, there are a lot of challenges in some form when it comes to homework, exams, or extra credit. I used to not take advantage of any extra credit, simply because it was extra work. Which I realized as of recently, is not the case. This was a challenge for me in almost all of my classes because almost every class offers extra credit. So all of this happened to be the same in every class I took. After I realized that extra credit needed to be done, I started doing better in a majority of my classes. This definitely was a growth mindset for me because I needed to understand that to succeed, I had to accomplish a little extra.

Growth Mindset

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Tech Tip: Canvas Calendar

The tech tip I chose to look at this week was the Canvas Calendar. Because I am a senior, and Canvas is completely new to me, I try to do as much research on Canvas as possible. One thing I like more than D2L in the calendar. I think it makes things a lot easier when I am trying to see what comes up next for each class, when the D2L calendar would show things for every class at once. I love that there is a grace period for this class and the assignments which has helped more than anything. There might be times when I forget to do an assignment for this class or have an emergency where I cannot do it on time, and realize there is a grace period the next morning. I have not yet synced my own calendar yet with Canvas's because I am not entirely confident in doing it yet, but that will probably be my next thing to work on! I also love how easy it is to find things through Canvas. Even though this is my only class using Canvas this semester, I am starting to realize how much more I like it than D2L.

Reading Notes: English Fairy Tales Part A

For this week’s story, I chose to do a section from the English Fairy Tales. I have always loved fairy tales and was very intrigued by some that I had found while reading today. The one that stuck out to me the most throughout the whole story, was the section, “The Old Woman and Her Pig”. This was a very interesting section of the story because all it was, was a chain of commands the old woman gave to things around her. She went to the store to buy a pig and the pig would not listen to her. So the old woman would try and have the dog make the pig return to its stile, so she would ask something else to make the dog bring the pig to the stile, and so forth. None of them obeyed her commands until the very end when it finally made it back around the chain and the pig finally went to his stile. I would change this story by having the old lady still ask everything around her to help her get her pig back to its stile, but only one of them would say yes. In the end, the pig would be so disobedient it would not accept any help the old lady tried to give the pig. The pig would run away, making the old lady ask everyone for help on at least finding her pet. Once the pig would be found, he would not go to his stile, but to the old lady’s bed. Making the old lady realize the pig just wanted some company. So from that day on out, the old lady would treat her pig as if he was a dog and they would be best friend until their last days together.

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This story is part of the English Fairy Tales unit. Story source: English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs with illustrations by John D. Batten (1890).

Old lady and Her Pig

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