Week 4 Review

As I was looking over the previous weeks announcements, I found that there was a lot of important information that I missed. A lot of which were updates on the assignments due. So re-reading the announcements helped as now I can be 100% sure that I didn't miss anything important. My favorite thing from the announcements was a graphic, which is posted below. It was posted on Thursday, September 15th. Here's the link to that days announcements: http://ouclassannouncements.blogspot.com/2016/09/thursday-september-15.html

(Cloth vs. Clothes)

Feedback Focus

(Timing Method)

Out of the three strageties, the one that was most useful to me was reading out loud. This was because  I tend to read really fast, so I end up skipping a lot of the important details. By reading out loud, it forced me to slow down and really make sure that I read every single word in the story. The one that helped me the least was the timing strategy. This strategy just stressed me out because I felt like I was running out of time and I had the read the story super fast in order to finish in time. For the reading out loud strategy, the biggest advantage was it slowed your reading speed down. The biggest disadvantage is you have to be in a place where you are able to read out loud. For the copy and paste method, the biggest advantage is that you are able to take notes while reading, and also are able to keep track of how much you read. The biggest disadvantage is that it takes a little bit more time, and you have to stop after every paragraph in order to take notes on what you just read. The biggest advantage to the timing strategy is that it gives you a time limit, so you are basically forcing yourself to just read for 10 minutes and do nothing else. The biggest disadvantage is that sometimes the story is really long and you can't finish reading it in by when the timer goes off. I probably would only use the reading out loud strategy in the future, as I really didn't like the other two very much. I'm a really big color person so a strategy I use is to copy the story into word, and insert notes into the story in a different color. So if I had a really strong reaction to a certain part, then I would type my notes in a different color directly after that part. So its kind of like the copy and paste method, but I don't delete the story.

Fables of Bidpai, Reading Notes, Part B

(The Crane and the Fish)

My favorite stories in this second reading of Fables of Bidpai are " The Hare, the Fox and the Wolf," and "The Crane and the Crab." The Hare, the Fox and the Wolf begin when the Wolf wants to eat the Hare, however the Hare wanting to live tells the Wolf there is a very plump, tasty fox not far from them. So the Hare takes the Wolf to the Fox's den. The Fox saw them coming so when the Hare came inside and asked if he could bring a friend, the Fox said basically said sure but let me clean first. While cleaning the fox recovered a pit he had dug so when the Hare and Wolf walked inside they fell into the pit. Then the Wolf ate the Hare, and the Fox got away. The second story is called the Crane and the Crab. There was a very old Crane, so old that she couldn't get her own fish anymore. So in order to ensure her survival she told a crab that there were fisherman who were going to catch all the fish and leave the pond empty. The Crab went and told all the fish this, and the fish came swimming to the Crane for advice. The Crane said that she could take them to an enchanted pool, where the water is crystal clear and they could never want for food. But she could only take 3 or 4 fish a day. So everyday the Crane took some fish to the "enchanted pool" but the minute she was out of site she devoured the fish. Eventually the Crab wanted to go, so the Crane said yes because she wanted him out of the way. She told him to wrap his claws around her neck, and took off flying. The crab saw the fish bones at the Crane's hunting spot and knew he had been tricked so he tightened his claws and strangled her. 

Bibliography: The Tortoise and the Geese and Other Fables of Bidpai by Maude Barrows Dutton link to reading

Fables of Bidpai, Reading Notes, Part A

(The Ass, the Lion, and the Fox)

To be honest, some of these stories I found to be extremely boring. But there were a few that I liked. The first is called "The King, the Falcon, and the Drinking Cup." In this story a king got separated from his company while hunting and grew thirsty. So he tried to drink from a stream but every time he raised the cup to his lips, a falcon came and knocked it away. Eventually the king grew so angry that he killed the falcon. When he sent someone to obtain water from the source of the spring, he found that poison was leaking into the spring, so the falcon actually saved his life. The second story that I liked was "The Merchant and His Iron." In this story I wonder if the merchant actually did anything to his friends son or was just lying about it. The third story I liked is called "The Ass, the Lion, and the Fox." In this story the Lion is ill and the only way he can be cured is if he ate the ears, and heart of an ass. The Fox didn't want the Lion to be ill as he ate the leftovers of the Lions prey, so he tricked the Ass to come near the Lion, and then once the Lion had slaughtered him, the Fox ate the ass's ears and heart himself.

Bibliography: The Tortoise and the Geese, and Other Fables of Bidpai by Maude Dutton link to reading

Tech Tip: Pinterest Board

Pinterest is one of my favorite things to use! I have used it for recipes, for ideas to decorate my room and apartment, for style tips, tattoo inspiration, basically everything. I guess you could say that I'm a Pinterest addict! Here is the link to my Pinterest board for Mythology and Folklore: