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).

Week 10 Storytelling: Why are dogs so smart?

One day, a dog was lost in the woods and he was very afraid to see a lion coming toward him.  The Dog said to himself, "I am going to die today; the lion will not leave me alive." And while he was thinking, he saw some bones on the ground around him.  And a great idea came to his mind. He took one of the bones and sat with his back to the lion and pretended to be amused licking the bones and began to scream, and to belch loudly and started saying, "Wow, the bones of the lion really delicious. If I get more of them today I will go to celebrate this wonderful day." When the lion heard what the dog was saying, he got afraid and said to himself, “This dog hunting lions and I have to run away and save my life.” Then the lion ran away from the dog very quickly.

At that time, there was a monkey on a tree watching the entire game.  After thinking for a while, he said to himself, "This is a good opportunity to make the lion my friend and I have to tell him about this game.” The monkey was trying to make the lion his friend and thus he will not be afraid of him anymore.

The monkey ran toward the lion to disclose the dog game to him. The dog was seeing the monkey running behind the lion and he realized that something bad will happen to him.

  

The monkey told the lion everything and explained to him how the dog deceived him.   The lion roared loudly and said to the monkey, “you should ride my back and we need to go to see the dog quickly.”

The dog was very intelligent and he sat down again with his back to the lion and began to speak loudly: "This monkey took a long time. It's been a full hour and he still unable to bring me another lion for the dinner today"

When the lion heard that, he threw the monkey from his back and devours him as a punishment for treason.

And since the day everybody knows that dogs are very smart animals even if they are not that smart. But because of the intelligence of this dog in that day, he was able to win in the game and save his life even if the lion is very strong animal.

Dog

Author’s note:

I did my reading this week over the Great Plains unit. And I really enjoyed reading it. One of the stories talked about why the deer has a blunt teeth and how the deer got his horns. And I thought that would be interesting to know why the dogs are so smart and what made the people know that all dogs are so smart, so I decided to write a story to explain why dogs are so smart. 

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Story source: Myths and Legends of the Great Plains by Katharine Berry Judson (1913).

Week 10 Reading Diary, continued: Rabbit and Deer

This tale from the Great Plains unit and it takes about a Rabbit and Deer were going to do a race to win the horns, but because the rabbit was cheating the before the race so the deer got the horns .and it also talks about why the deer has blunt teeth and that was also because of the rabbit. I think it is an interesting story to inspire me to write a new one. 

Deer

Story source: Myths and Legends of the Great Plains by Katharine Berry Judson (1913).

Week 10 Reading Diary: Old-Woman-Who-Never-Dies

Old-Woman-Who-Never-Dies is a story from Great Plains unit. 

Old-Woman-Who-Never-Dies lives in the moon and she has six children. Every spring she sends the wild geese, swans, and the ducks that enable the Indians to eat.so when she ends the wild geese, the Indians plant their corn and Old-Woman-Who-Never-Dies makes it grow. When eleven wild geese are found together, the Indians know the corn crop will be very large. The swans mean that the Indians must plant gourds; the ducks, that they must plant beans

The Old-Woman-Who-Never-Dies lived near the little Missouri and sometimes the Indians visited her.

Little Missouri, North Dakota

I think I can write a story like this by making all the people believe in something can do everything for them.

Story source: Myths and Legends of the Great Plains by Katharine Berry Judson (1913).