Week 7 Review

My favorite quote for this week was “the creativity is the result of hard work” which is something I strongly agree with. Working hard and giving everything enough time to think of can lead everybody to create new things.

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Week 7 Storytelling:Best Friends

Once, a cat and a mouse were living in the same house and they were very good friends. They were playing together all the time and always go out for walking together.

As winter was approaching, they decided to stock some food in their house.so they went to the market and bought the food. Fearing that other cats or mice might steal their food, and also to stock the food for long time, so they hid it in the first floor of their house in a very small room.

One day, the cat and the mouse were sitting beside the fireplace watching a football game and the weather was outside so bad and it started to snow. After like two hours, the door was knocked, so the cat got so surprised because no one can leave his house in that bad weather and she went to open the door and she saw that their friends came to stay in their house for couple days because their car broke down near the house and they need to wait until the storm ends so that they can repair their car.

The cat and the mouse were so happy to have their friends in their house and they decided to prepare the dinner for them. They went to the kitchen to prepare the food, but they did not find enough food in the refrigerator to feed eight members. So the mouse said to the cat, “what we should do now?” the cat said, “we do not have any other choice, we have to come out with some food from the first floor, I think it is time for that now.”

The cat went to the first floor in their house and brought the food and the mouse prepared the dinner for the guests and had very great night that day.

After ten days, the storm was getting much worse and the whole ground covered with the snow. It was very severe storm.  The guests were not able to leave and reach their car. The cat and the mouse had no food left in their house. And after they discussed this problem for a day, the mouse decided to go out to get some food. The cat said,” you can’t go out in this bad weather. “   The mouse answered, “I have to go we can’t stay without food for long time.”

The mouse struggled a lot to get out of the house because there was too much snow, but after walking hours and hours, he got so tired and did not find any market to buy some food. Finally the mouse found an old man in the street he was also trying to find food for his family, so the mouse did not know that and he decided to ask the man if he can give him some food, and when he asked the man about the food the man hit him very strongly and left him in the ground not moving.

After half of the day passed, the cat went out to find the mouse because she was so worried about him. Then she found the mouse in the street deaf and blind because of the hitting. She took him to the house and takes care of him until both of them died.

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Author’s Note:

The original story is a story from the Chinese fairy tales units and it is called “Why Dog and Cat are Enemies” It talks about a cat and a dog they were friends and decided to help their owners to get back the luck ring after they sold it, but the cat was so selfish and gets the reward to herself and kept the dog without anything and from that day the cat and dog are enemies. In my story, as everybody knows the mouse and cat can never be friends, so in my story I made these two creatures are an amazing friends and they overcame all the challenges in their life.

Bibliography: Story source: The Chinese Fairy Book, ed. byR. Wilhelm and translated by Frederick H. Martens (1921).

Week 7 Reading Diary, continued:Fox-Fire

Fox-fire is an episode from my second half of reading assignment for this week. It talks about a man saw a fox in a garden one day, but the weird thing about that fox was whenever blew its breath out, a ball of fire came out of its mouth. That was something interesting to me to read and I was imaging while I was reading the story how the fox did the balls of fire, and I was wondering why this fox is different than others foxes. also I was thinking if I can do story about an animal become a different animal each night like it changes to another animal each night and just his owner knows about him and then the owner decided to use this animal to get some money from doing shows to entertain people or something like that.

Fox-Fire

Story source: The Chinese Fairy Book, ed. by R. Wilhelm and translated by Frederick H. Martens (1921).

Week 7 Reading Diary:Why Dog and Cat are Enemies

For week 7, I did my reading over the Chinese fairy tales unit. I really enjoyed reading this unit. One of the episodes that I liked is called “Why Dog and Cat are Enemies” and it is a very short and sweet story. It talks about a cat and a dog they were friends and decided to help their owners to get back the luck ring after they sold it, but the cat was so selfish and gets the reward to herself and kept the dog without anything. While I was reading through the story I was wondering if I can change the story to make the cat and dog friends until the end of the story and they can do more adventures together and be friends instead of enemies.

Great Friendship between Cat and Dog 

 Story source: The Chinese Fairy Book, ed. by R. Wilhelm and translated by Frederick H. Martens (1921).

Tech Tip:Add an HTML Box to Your Sidebar

For this week I used one of the blogger tips.it is add an HTML box to your sidebar tip and this box can allow you to insert text and links into a sidebar box. I liked this tip because you can share some words of wisdom or personal motto.  

Week 6 Review

This is one of my favorite graphics. It is wonderful picture to  tell the idea about creativity because maybe everyone knows the same information about anything in life but not everyone can create a new thing from a normal and old one. 

Knowledge, Experience,and Creativity

Week 6 Storytelling:Don't Be Greedy

There were three friends. They loved each other so much. They were always saying that they could not live without each other because they were friends since first grade at school. Mike, Wu, and Ahmad were living in a very small village where there were not too many people living in that village. These three friends liked to meet in the same place every day and then they went out of the village to enjoy their days by playing some games and meeting their friends from the other village.

One day, the friends decided to go further than they usually did because they wanted to discover new places. While they were standing on a small hill and looking to the wide land in front of them, they saw an amazing green spot. It was looking so different than everything around it.

In the next day, after they finished school they went to see that place. They were thinking that they would spend like two hours seeing the place and have fun and they could be back to their homes before sunset. After walking for almost three hours, they found themselves in the middle of the way and  they maybe still  needed another three hours to get to their destination.

“Let’s go back; it is still too far away,” Wu said.

-    “No, we are not going back because we’re been walking for three hours to see that place and we want to see what is in there,” Mike said.

-  “Yes, and you have to come with us, Wu. We are not going without you,” Ahmad said.

-  “ But our parents will worry about us if we are not at home before eight o’clock,” Wu said

-     “Do not worry, Wu. We will be back at home early,” Ahmad said.

After walking for another three hours they arrived to that wonderful place where there were very many green trees and large mountains. They enjoyed the place and had fun, but they did not realize that the time was too late and it was so dark to go back to their houses. 

While they were walking to find a safe place to stay until the morning, they found a cave and when they entered it. It was so dark so Ahmad took out his phone and opened the flashlight app to see what was in there.The surprise was that they found a very big treasure and it had a lot of money, gold, and silver. They were shocked and surprised at the same time and they decided to divide it between them and everyone get his portion from the treasure.

Ahmad was not happy with his portion of the treasure so he told his friends that he was so hungry and could not wait until the morning to eat and  he wanted to go out to find some food to eat. While he was searching for  food, he saw poison mushrooms and a very bad idea came to his mind and he decided to make his friends eat these mushrooms. When they ate it, they would die and he could take the entire treasure to himself. While he was out of the cave his friends decided to kill him when he came back so they could divide his portion between both of them.

When Ahmad arrived     at the cave his friends killed him and they took the food to eat because they were so hungry and they did not realize that the  mushrooms were poison mushrooms so both of them died immediately after they ate the food. So we can conclude that because all the friends were so greedy and each one wanted the money for himself all of them died at the same time and no one took the money.

 

the  treasure in the cave

Author’s note:

“Why spiders are always found in the corners of the ceiling “is a story about a father. He is so selfish and greedy. He worked hard with his family in their farm and after he saw that the crops were quite ripe, he decided that he wanted to profit by them alone, so he  sent his family to their house in the village and he stayed in the farm alone. One day his son wanted to know the robber in their farm and when he came out to catch the robber he found his father. That was so shameful because he was so greedy and he wanted to take all the money to himself. In my story I changed the characters from father and his son to  three friends.They decided to go to the forest to discover the place and play for a few hours and then come back to their houses but in the forest they found a treasure and each of them wanted to take the money to himself but that led them to their death. What I wanted to say from writing this story is that being a greedy person can lead to a very bad ending and maybe can lead to death.

Bibliography:West African Folktales by William H. Barker and Cecilia Sinclair, with drawings by Cecilia Sinclair (1917).