Reading Notes: Chinese Fairy Book Part A

For this unit, I chose to write over the Monkey King, in the Chinese Fairy Book. I liked the entire first part of this story, but the parts that stuck out to me the most were the Dragon King, and Dragon Queen sections. Throughout this story there are many baboons who are the Ape King's subjects. They show him a lot of ways to get the weapons he needs, so I think I could change the story by making the whole thing just a dream. I would make the Monkey King be a 5 year old boy, named Sam, who was obsessed with apes, weapons, and fairy tales. Throughout his dream, he would be the king, of course, and find the best weapon in the world! His journeys would consist of him having many monkey friends to show him the way and how to become the greatest King in the world. He would ask all of his monkeys to find the best weapon ever, which they did. They found someone very powerful named Drogon, who made the best swords ever, which he was dying to have. So in the dream, Sam would conquer the world with his amazing weapons and rule over everything. He would be a great King that everyone loved and respected. When Sam would wake up, he would feel like he was still the most amazing King ever, and live life everyday like he was a Monkey King!

Bibliography:

This story is part of the The Monkey King unit. Story source: "The Ape Sun Wu Kung" in The Chinese Fairy Book ed. by R. Wilhelm and translated by Frederick H. Martens (1921).

Young King

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Tech Tip: Google Site Page

Hi everyone! I have a new page up on my website! It's all about my sweet, little kitty named Phylix, and her best friend, Oliver! If you're interested, go check it out! This was a new post for my Storybook, and it was actually pretty easy to create. All I had to do was create a new page on my homepage for my website, and start typing! :)

Tech Tip: YouTube Playlist

So for this extra credit assignment, I wanted to write a tip on how to make youtube playlists! I have never been "tech savvy", especially when it comes to anything youtube related. I don't use YouTube a lot, so when I do I just do the simplest tasks like typing in what I want to watch and then exiting out of the page. But I realized I needed to start making playlists for a few videos I have saved and didn't know how. That's why this tech tip was awesome for me to find! Making a playlist is actually the easiest thing to do; now that I know how to do it. Once you are logged into YouTube and find a video you want to add to your playlist, simply click on the "Add to" button near the bottom left of the video screen. If you haven't made a playlist before, it will ask you to create a new playlist. Once you have created a new playlist and have added the videos you want then you will start to see them on your home page! Simple as that.
I have never shared any of my videos publicly, simply because I doubt people would want to watch all the cat videos I play. But, when I do make a playlist of the videos that are interesting enough, I will share it for everyone who wants to watch!

YouTube Meme

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Readin Notes: Aladdin's Lamp part B

The Story of Aladdin is where this part begins. I would connect the two stories by having the old man turn out to be Aladdin and stumbling across this cave in his journeys. He would go through the cave and realize how psychadelic it was. Everything he touched would either help or harm him in a different way so he had to be careful. So after his many adventures through this cave, he would have finally come across a lamp at the end of the cave. He has been through thick and thin trying to get to the end of the cave with the help, and not so much help, from every little creature along the way. Aladdin has finally made it to the end of the cave and has his hands on the lamp. He would be shaking so much from his excitement that his hands accidentally brushed the lamp, causing (you guessed it!) a genie to appear! But it would not be just an ordinary genie. This genie definitely does not want to be let out of his lamp, so when Aladdin let him out he was not very happy. This genie did know, though, that he had a job to fulfil. So once the genie was released and saw who let him out, he states the rules as simply and as quickly as he can. 1.) Be specific. 2.) Do not annoy me. And 3.) There are only three wishes I am allowed to grant. So of course Aladdin would be shocked since he did not know what would be to come from the lamp in the first place. The genie would go back into the lamp until Aladdin knew what his wishes would be. After Aladdin has made his way out of the cave with the lamp, he would think of all the things he could wish for and find the many obstacles he would face trying to get what he wanted.

Aladdin's Genie

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Bibliography:

This story is part of the Arabian Night Unit. Story source: The Arabian Nights' Entertainments by Andrew Lang and illustrated by H. J. Ford (1898). Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp 2

Reading Notes: The Story of the Fisherman Part A

For Part A of the Arabian Nights Unit, I chose to write over the Story of the Fisherman. I wanted to connect this story to my Part B of Aladdin. So in this part of the story a poor fisherman does what he can to support his family. He always goes out to the lake to try and find food for his poor, starving family to make ends meet. Every time he had thrown his net, he would either get garbage, fish carcasses, or shells! So for my notes, I would probably change one major thing- on the fisherman’s last try of the day he would pull in a treasure chest. This poor old man who is trying to catch fish to bring home to his family, now has caught a giant treasure chest! The only problem is, that he cannot get into the chest. So throughout the journey of getting the chest onto his boat without anyone else seeing, and trying to get it home, he come across many obstacles. I would eventually make it to where he had gotten it home and told his family all about it. Because he does not have a key to open to box, or an axe to chop it open, he would go on a journey to find something to open this chest. Along this journey, he would come across a large cave that seemed very strange to him…

The Poor Fisherman- Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

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Bibliography:

This story is part of the Arabian Nights unit. Story source: The Arabian Nights' Entertainments by Andrew Lang and illustrated by H. J. Ford (1898). The Story of the Fisherman

Feedback Focus

I think copy and deleting is a more useful tool to me than reading out loud. I have tried reading out loud, and even then I still lose my concentration- so when I can copy and paste a part of a paragraph, then it helps me read the whole thing easier. For me it is way easier reading a story little by little, then reading the story as a whole. I am a little surprised at how much more helpful it is for me to copy and paste than it is to simply read out loud. I use this strategy quite a bit actually; I have always found that I lose focus reading long stories so this strategy helps me a lot. This strategy helps me with any story I read, which is why I like this so much! Using a timer has never been the best way for feedback for me.. it actually makes me feel more pressured, even if I am not under a time constraint. So I don't think I would use this feedback anytime in the future.

Feedback Picture

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Reading Notes: Persian Tales Part B

For the second part of my reading I chose to do another chapter about a wolf so I could combine the two! This story starts out with a wedding, and by the end, the bride has turned into a wolf out of nowhere and tore her husband apart. Then she immediately turns back into her normal self without any idea how it happened or what exactly happened. So to change the story I would have it connect back to my part A of the story. Instead of a girl marrying a man, it would be the goat and the wolf from the beginning of my story. After the wolf had protected his house and managed to calm down the goat, they would have spoken about the miscommunication and the mother goat decided to let the kids have a play date with the wolf’s child. After a few play dates, they would begin going on dates without the children and decide that they have been falling in love! So in a twist of fate, the goat and wolf would fall in love and get married. Once getting married, no one would kill the other (like in the original), but they would live happily ever after like any other cheesy love story. The baby goats would then see the baby wolf as their new sibling and they would become best friends. After spending a couple years together, they would eventually realize that they could not keep up with rebuilding a house every time the wolf would huff, puff, and sneeze their house down. So they would learn what materials to build their house out of, and make sure it didn’t happen to any other unlucky people who built a house next to theirs.

Wolf Sneezing

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Bibliography:

This story is part of the Persian Tales unit. Story source: Persian Tales: The Story of the Wolf-Bride , translated by D.L.R. Lorimer and E.O. Lorimer and illustrated by Hilda Roberts (1919).