Reading Notes, English Fairy Tales, Part A

This week is the beginning of the British/Celtic unit! I used the random story picker and it chose English Fairy Tales. The first story I read was "Tom Tit Tot." This story had the exact same plot as Rumplestiltskin by the Grimm Brothers. I also read "The Three Little Pigs." I think that if I were to chose a story from this first part to rewrite,I would choose this one! It was my favorite story to hear as a little kid. As this story is so well known, I think that it would be cool to write it in a rhyming poem!

Bibliography: English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs link to reading

Week 10 Review

(Blogspot)

While reading through the announcements this week, I noticed that everyday there is some kind of cat meme to motivate you! I love these especially because I lot of the time I just keep doing my homework and forget what I'm doing it for. Seeing those makes me smile, and reminds me that I'm doing all this work to be able to have a job that I love! The picture to the left is my favorite meme from this past week!

Tech Tip: Weather Widget

Hi everybody!
I added a weather widget to my blog! Scroll down to check it out! If you want to know how here is the link!

Reading Notes, Nursery Rhymes, Part A

This week I decided to read nursery rhymes for extra reading. This collection had a lot of different sections of nursery rhymes such as proverbs, songs, tales, riddles, games, paradoxes, and charms and lullabies. The songs consisted of a lot of well known nursery rhymes like "Three Blind Mice," "Little Bo Peep," and "London Bridge." I think a good idea for a story would be to take one of these and expand it and write a sequel. I could also write a story about "This Little Piggy," or "Hickory Dickory Dock."

(Three Blind Mice)

Bibliography: The Nursery Rhyme Book edited by Andrew Lang and illustrated by L. Leslie Brooke link to reading

link to Three Blind Mice video

Reading Notes, The Great Plains, Part A

(The Eagle, Wikipedia)

This week I choose to read Native American Stories from the Great Plains Unit. I realized after reading all the stories in part A that I really didn't like any of them. I don't know if I am just not interested in Native American myths or if the writing was just not interesting to read. There was one story that I didn't completely dislike and that was "The Eagle's Revenge." In this story a hunter, who had killed a deer walked outside and saw an eagle eating that same deer. So he shot the eagle. The chief of the tribe called for a dance, and during that dance a stranger appeared. The tribe told seven stories of great deeds and at the end of each story the stranger yelled, "hi." Each time hi was uttered one of the men leading the dance fell dead. After the stranger vanished, the tribe learned that the stranger was the brother of the eagle who was killed. With this story I could rewrite it into a poem.

Bibliography: Myths and Legends of the Great Plains by Katharine Berry Judson link to reading

Tech Tip: Twitter Follow

I already had a twitter but for this assignment I chose to follow some twitter accounts run by the University of Oklahoma. The first one I followed was the University of Oklahoma Class of 2018 account. I followed this one because this is my class, and they announce a lot of cool events, like free food on campus and also they keep you updated with emergency situations on campus. The second account I followed was the University of Oklahoma Football account. This is because I love football, but I don't always have time to sit down and watch a four hour game and this account posts play-by-play updates on the games.

Review

I was studying for a big midterm this week so I missed a lot of assignments and just skimmed the announcements. While reading them, I came across a meme that resonated with me (pictured below). It is from Thursday, October 20th's announcement (link to announcement). This picture spoke to me because it is basically saying like "don't bite off more than you can chew." So don't commit to more stuff than you can handle. I have a problem with this as I am in 18 hours this semester, I have sorority commitments,  I have a job, and I am shadowing in a hospital. So its just a little reminder for me for next semester to not commit to as much stuff!