Reflections

I can not believe the class is over, it was really nice to meet new people in this class and read their introductions. It was  great to know an intelligent and creative people in this class. i was really enjoying reading through the comments that others left in my stories,introduction,and comment wall. I want also to thank the instructor for this class. Laura was one of the amazing teachers i ever met. she helped me a lot in writing my stories and revising them.  The reading assignments  each week  were my favorite thing to do. I learned a lot from each unit and there were always new stories to know. Overall, this class was so great and i am glad that i had the opportunity to take this class.

Week 14 Review

I did the the back up for this week and i am glad that I looked over the last announcements. there were  a lot of fun things to read and videos to watch. and off course my best post ever the CATS . here is a good one:

 Cats with heads up

Tech Tip: Reverse Image Search

Rama and Lakshmana builds a bridge

 with the help of the monkey

I did the  Reverse Image Search tech tip. And that was a great and new way to search for images.It was great to know about this image more information.

Week 14 Reading Diary:The Fox and the Cat

I did some extra reading for this week also and i was really enjoying the reading from last week so I decided to read the second half from the Ashliman unit. The fox and the Cat was a short and great story and i think it has a very great in the moral where every one should trust his skills and the ability for doing things.

The Fox and the Cat

Story source: The Grimm Brothers' Children's and Household Tales translated by D. L. Ashliman (1998-2013).

Week 13 Reading Diary:The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids

i did some extra reading this week and really enjoyed the stories.  "The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids" is a story that i really enjoyed reading it this week because it was one of my favorite stories when i was a little kid. It talks about a old goat where able to bring her kids to life after the wolf ate them.

The old goat and her kids

Story source: The Grimm Brothers' Children's and Household Tales translated by D. L. Ashliman (1998-2013).

Week 14 Reading Diary, continued: The Man Who Met Misery

I think this unit was so interesting and one of the stories that I really liked was” The Man Who Met Misery” and it is a story about a very rich young man he decided to go find the misery after he heard about it a lot. After he had an adventure, he came to his parents and told them I know what misery is now. It gave me a nice run for it. It's an awful thing, and there's no joking with it. This story gave me a great idea to write a story about a rich man wanted to find the happiness out of his castle and he might find poor people, but they are so happy in their lives.

Czech Koruna

This story is part of the Czech Folktales unit. Story source: The Key of Gold by Josef Baudis (1922).

Week 14 Reading Diary:The Bear, the eagle, and the Fish

I read the first part of the Czech until and this unit was so enjoyable to read. “The Bear, the eagle, and the Fish” was a good story to know it. And it talks about a young man was able to turn back his brothers in law to human form after they were bear, eagle, and fish. In my story for this week, I am thinking to write a story about a man trying to find a way to be back to his human form after he got changed to panda toy and his panda toy became a human.

Czech castle

Story source: The Key of Gold by Josef Baudis (1922). 

Tech Tip:Google Timer

One of the great tech tips I found this week is the Google Timer. google timer can help me to stay on track during the day. And i also can take some breaks while i start to study for the finals and this timer can help me to know when to get back to study when time is up.

Week 13 Review

This week I enjoyed reading the announcement that I missed the few last days and i really liked the story of  Surya. this is a story i never read before but it was good to read.

Surya

Week 13 Storytelling:Strange sound

There was a young girl her name is Sarah. She was 18 years old. Sarah was a very kind, beautiful, and smart girl. But she was not happy in her life. There was something did not make her live happily. The problem was that Sarah was always having dreams at night and in the next day they became true.

In the beginning, she was so happy with that where she was able to know what would happen with her in the next day. For instance, she was always telling her friends to not go to school in some days because the teacher is absent in that day or sometime she knew that would be a pop quiz in school in the next day so she was studying hard before the quizzes and test and got straight A’s in all her classes.

Moreover, one day she had a dream  that she would have an accident in her car in the next day and unfortunately that was what happened. Since  that day, Sarah started to see bad dreams instead of the good ones. And the big problem was that all the dreams became true.

After a month or so, Sarah heard a girl sound was talking in her head and always told her to not do the bad things. The sound  kept telling Sarah that it would help her in life and not hurt her ever.

The young girl thought that was just an illusion, then she tried to ask the sound something to see if that was an illusion or not. Sarah said I would go to my friend house and what she would be wearing? 

After she asked the question, she heard the answer very quickly from the girl sound:” she would be wearing a red dress. The surprise was the she found her friend wearing the red dress when she visited her. In the next day, Sarah asked the girl sound if she was a fairy and the sound said no.

Two or three years passed and Sarah still did not know what to do with that sound and how to make it left her mind. She did not want to tell anybody about it because she knew that no one would believe her and maybe some people would say that she was a crazy girl.

Sarah’s life was changed where she was not able to sleep at night and did not eat her food or even go to school. And one day she decided to tell her mum the whole story wishing to find some help from her. The mother was completely shocked and tried to understand what happened with her daughter. Then the mother said: we should go to see the doctor if he could help us. After that day Sarah stopped sending me letters or talked to me to know what happened with her after that day.

Sarah hearing the sound 

 Author’s note:

I read the Jacobs unit for this week and one of the stories that I liked is “The Language of Animals”. This is a story about a man how knows the animal language. And the animals always tell him what is going to happened, but his dad did not believe him and spoke to a robber to kill his son in the forest. The robber did not kill the lad. And the man was made pope of all Christendom in Rome. In my story I just used the idea of hearing new sounds to come up with my story and hopefully I did good story for this week.

Bibliography: Europa's Fairy Book by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by John Batten (1916).

Week 13 Reading Diary, continued: A Visitor from Paradise

I did the reading over the second part of the Jacobs unit. And one of the stories that I really liked was “A Visitor from Paradise” this is a very good story it takes about a woman who gave some clothes and beers for a strange man. She thought the man going to Paradise and she wanted him to give the things to her first husband. Then she gave him her Dobbin but he did not bring it back in the next day, so she went with her second husband to find him but they found in their way booty instead. I think I can do a story about something goes in different way than it should go just because a man heard a word or a sentence wrong. I think that would be so funny.

the man  going to Paradise

Story source: Europa's Fairy Book by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by John Batten (1916).

Week 13 Reading Diary: The Language of Animals

This is a story about a man how knows the animal language. And the animals always tell him what’s going to happened and his dad did not believe him and spoke to a robber to kill his son in the forest. But the robber did not kill the lad. And the man was made pope of all Christendom in Rome. And I think that’s can give me a good idea to write my story this week where I am thinking to make a girl that always know the things before its happens and that can make her feeling uncomfortable all the time.

This story is part of the Europa unit. Story source: Europa's Fairy Book by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by John Batten (1916).

Week 12 Review

I just looked over the past week announcements and I really like the one where that cat has an obstacle and trying to overcome it. and the picture said "we all struggle " and i think this picture came in the right time where we all or many of us struggling in the last few weeks of this semester.

Struggling Cat

Week 12 Reading Diary, continued: Mr. Miacca

“Mr Miacca” is a story of a bad boy and very bad boy. He was always not listening to his mum and go out of the street when one day Mr. Miacca caught him and took him off to his house to eat him with his wife. But in the end of the story the boy was able to run home. Since that day he was a very good boy and never went out until he was old enough to go alone. In my story I will talk about a bad boy decided to go out alone and then he will lost and he will be not able to go back to his home until he go through some adventures. And these adventures will make him know that he should be a good person to go back to his home.

Mr. Miacca

Story source: English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs with illustrations by John D. Batten (1890).

Week 12 Reading Diary:Three Pigs

This week I did my reading over the first part of the English fairy tales unit. And one of the stories that I liked is” The Story of the three little pigs” where there was a fox that was able to trick tow of the pigs and eat them. The fox tried several times to find way to eat the third pig, but he could not be able to do that. The pig ate him instead because he was so smart. In my story I think I will keep the fox as my main character because he is the symbol of the cunning and I may do a story about the fox and rabbit and I will see who is will win in the end.

The Little Pig And The Fox

Story source: English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs with illustrations by John D. Batten (1890).

Week 11 Review

My favorite announcement from this week was the growth mindset of Mrs.Bean."look boldly ahead"
it so great when people look to their-selves and see what is going on around them without waiting for others to  tell them and they should set the fears aside and look to the future instead of looking just to the past.

Here is the cat

Portfolio Guide

The Flood : This story talks about Noah's struggle to make people believe in God so they can avoid the flood, and it also describes the flood.

Adam and Eve: This is a traditional story from the Bible and it written from a different perspective to show that  God is the only one who can create people and animals and make them perfect in their own way.

Two Workers: This story talks about two workers working in the same factory and one of them was so jealous of the other, so that made him do bad things to his friend without knowing the bad things will happen to him instead.

Don't Be Greedy:  Why Does Greed Beget More Greed ? And to what end can greed lead a person? I think this is a story to answer these questions.

Week 11 Storytelling: Rocky

Once upon a time, there was a king. He loved hunting a lot. And he was always go for hunting with his dog to hunt some birds. The king loved his dog very much and always took it with him wherever he went. The dog was named Rocky. Rocky also loved his master and never left him alone.

One day the king asked the chef to make for him the food, so he can eat it after coming back from hunting. When the King returned back to his palace with the dog, he asked about his food if it is ready or not. And the chef told him that he still need some time to get everything done.

 At that time, Rocky was sitting next to the kitchen door watching the chef to finish cooking and give him his food also. When the chef realized that Rocky was so hungry, he put the food for him near to the wall. While Rocky was eating his food, he saw a snake entering the kitchen from the Cracks in the wall. He tried to catch it but he could not find way to do that. Then he saw the snake drink from the king the food and puffs poison in the food. At the time there was the chef assistant also sees what was happing in the kitchen, but she was also not able to eliminate the Viper.

The King came into the kitchen wanted to see why the chef did not bring him the food yet and he saw the food still on the oven and it smells really good, so he decided to taste the food.

When the king almost tasted the soup, Rocky hit him on his hand to stop him. But the king did not know what Rocky purpose was from doing that and he thought that Rocky just wanted to play. Then he had to taste the food again and the chef assistant was trying to tell the king to not drink from that soup, but he also did not understand that because she was not speaking. She was trying to play signals, but he did not understand them and grabbed a spoon for the third time also to eat. So at that moment Rocky hit him on his hand and jumped into the pot and drank the poisoned food until he burnt and died and in the Behavior he preventing the owner from eating the poisoned food

The chef was the only person who understands the language of his assistant. So the king was shocked to what happened and   asked the chef to explain to him what happened. Then the chef told him that Rocky watched a Viper put poison in the food and Rocky tried to stop you three times, but you did not understand what its purpose was. And that’s my assistant told me because I was out of the kitchen at the time. King said he would request the burial ceremony of the Rocky like how he do it  to anyone because  sacrificed himself and he was a symbol of fulfillment and sincerity.

Rocky 

Author’s note :

I did my reading this week over the welsh unit. And one of the stories that I liked a lot and made me feel sad in the end is “ the story of Gelert .“ Gelert is a great dog. His master, a prince, loved him very much like a child, but in the end of the story, the prince killed his favorite dog because he saw a blood all about his child room and he thought that the dog killed his child where indeed Gelert was fighting a big wolf to protect the child. And I just changed a little bit in the event to get a new story. 

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Story source: Welsh Fairy-Tales and Other Stories by Peter H. 

Emerson (1894).

Week 11 Reading Diary, continued: The Fairies’ Mint

-There was a miller noticed that some of his sacks had been moved during the night

-The miller went with his friend to watch the mill

-The mill lit up and at work

-He saw a fairies coin their money.

In my own story I will made the miller got surprised when he saw 

real people in his mill and maybe he will fight with them to find 

out where his sacks or I can also change the fairies to  animals and 

will see what the animals want to do in the mill.

The Mill

Story source: Welsh Fairy-Tales and Other Stories by Peter H. Emerson (1894).

Week 11 Reading Diary:The Story of Gelert

I did my reading this week over the welsh unit. And one of the 

stories that I liked a lot and made me feel sad in the end is “ the 

story of Gelert .“ Gelert is a great dog. His master, a prince, loved 

him very much like a child, but in the end of the story, the prince 

killed his favorite dog because he saw a blood all about his child 

room and he thought that the dog killed his child where indeed 

Gelert was fighting a big wolf to protect the child. And I think I 

would write a story about another loyal dog with a happy ending 

maybe. 

Gelert and the child

Story source: Welsh Fairy-Tales and Other Stories by Peter H. 

Emerson (1894).