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).