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).

Reading Notes: Looking-Glass unit Part A

For this week’s story, I chose to do a tale from the Looking-Glass unit. I have always adored all of the Alice in Wonderland stories and decided I wanted to write a story over one of the sections in this story. After reading them all, I decided to write notes over the Humpty Dumpty section. I really liked this one because it’s how Alice meets Humpty Dumpty and their conversations. In this story, Humpty Dumpty is somewhat cranky and just sitting on the wall; Alice asks him a few questions and with a snarky attitude, he answers them. I would change this story by switching it around- I would have Alice sitting on the wall and Humpty walking around and decided to go towards her and see what she is doing. Alice would be sitting on the wall wishing she knew how to get down, but could not figure it out. Humpty would be telling her how to get down, because he had done it before. After both of them spoke, and tried to figure out how to get Alice down, she ended up falling off. But unlike Humpty, she would not have broken anything or even hurt herself. After realizing that falling off of a wall would not hurt her, she would leave the wall and come back as she pleases. Her and Humpty Dumpty would go on many adventures together and avoid as many walls as possible. Until one day where they would reach a wall they could not avoid...

Humpty Dumpty

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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).

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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Reading Notes: Alaskan Legends Part B

For the second part of this week’s storytelling units, I chose to do a section from the Alaskan Legends unit called The Wolves and the Deer. I wanted to do something animal oriented since my Part A had to do with animals. This is pretty much a story originated from why Deer are afraid of Wolves, but I would change it to fit my original story post. Throughout this story, both of the animals are laughing to see the size of each other teeth, and in the ends shows how the Wolves eat the Deer and why they are afraid of Wolves. But instead of making it violent, I would have the animals laughing at the man from Part A who could not see them. The only animals who could see them were the ones that were trying to. Unlike the man, the Raven wanted to see each animal, friend, and food he provided for the man because he was doing a nice deed. So while the animals could see the man and could see the Raven, they could not be seen by anyone who did not want to see the animals formed from clay. The end of the story would lead to the man being so alone, and hungry that he would finally try his best to see what the Raven had created. By the time he would be starving, he could see food. By the time he needed a companion, he would see a girl. So by the time he wanted wild life around, he would see each animal the Raven had created. The man would feel so foolish to belittle the Raven and to not have seen each of these items before, that he would spend the rest of his life trying to make it up to the raven.

Wolf and Deer

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This story is part of the Alaskan Legends unit. Story source:Myths and Legends of Alaska, edited by Katharine Berry Judson (1911).

Reading Notes: Alaskan Legends Unit Part A

For my reading choice this week, I chose to do a story from the Alaskan Legends unit. As I was reading through the stories, I truly liked the idea of the Raven’s Creation. In this short story, they show how a man came from a pea pod, and transformed into a ma; it is also shown how a Raven transformed as well. Throughout this story it shows how the Raven feeds the man, turns clay into animals, and give him companions. I would change this story to the Raven not transforming, but being able to communicate to the man still. The Raven would try and still make companions, but only the Raven would see what it was trying to create. The man himself, would only see clay. While the Raven was doing his best to comfort the man and make him things to bring the man pleasure, only the Raven could see its creations. The man would only sit back and laugh at the Raven for not making anything real. While the man was watching the Raven slave over making things for him, he would not appreciate any of it. He would sit in silence, except for the laughter, and watch him fail at making him things. By the end of this story, the man would have nothing- no friends, no food, and no animals. The Raven on the other hand, saw everything; and while it would try and convince the man to enjoy his products, it decided to leave the man alone. All of the animals, food, and friends the Raven thought it made would vanish. Because if no one can see the items the Raven made, then they would vanish.

Raven

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This story is part of the Alaskan Legends unit. Story source:Myths and Legends of Alaska, edited by Katharine Berry Judson (1911).