Reading Diary A: Apache Tales

these were my thoughts while reading the Apache Tales unit.

The Emergence- I guess the title says it all. we emerged from the earth and all went our different ways. I wonder what happened to the old people.

The First War- so the old people do come back and they are the ones who introduce sleep. that guy put up a fight.

The Culture Heroes and Owl- this story is funny to me, here we have these two boys who just want a toy to play with just they get trapped and use the power of story telling to save them.

The Killing of the Monsters- this was pretty cool i like how he out smarted everything to kill it.     

Naiyenesgani Rescues the Taos Indians- Why is everything done in 4's?

Naiyenesgani Takes His Leave- so thats why there is such an importance on animals in their culture.

Coyote Secures Fire- i am guessing a fire drill is how they make fire because it has been brought a few different times now.

The Swallowing Monster- some times these stories have so much going on in them...we are running from a monster and now the girl is a frog?

The Man Who Helped the Eagles- it would be so cool to fly with the eagles.

Releasing the Buffalo- in every story they are playing this hop and pole game  

The Origin of Corn and Deer- again we see the importance of the number 4

Apache hut found on Wikimedia 

Week 8 Review

My favorite post from this week was the Procrastination Flowchart 

Procrastination Flowchart from sylvialiuland.com

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Reading Plan

Second Half Reading Plan

For weeks 9 and 10 I would like to read the Apache stories and the British North America stories. I picked these because i like the stories that about tricksters and these have quite a few tricksters in them .

In week 11 I think I am going to read Nursery Rhymes. these are fun little stories and i would like to read more of them.

For week 12 I would like to read Beowulf. my reason for this is because he is just a beast.

In week 13 I am going to read Brothers Grimm (Hunt) I have heard these stories before but i have never read the Brothers Grimm version 

For my last reading I think I want to read Lang's European Fairy Tales I. No particular reason for this I just think they sound good.

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Reflections: Looking Forward

The first half of the semester started off a little rocky but now that we are rolling things are going well. I think for this 2nd half I would like to try and get my work done a little sooner or maybe even double up so i can take a day or two off. I would like to see my writing improve as we move through the second half of this semester. I plan on doing this by spending more time looking over my work.  I think right now I am on course to make an A so I just need to keep on doing what i have been doing and I should be fine. I might even be able to finish early if i do a few more extra credit things.    

quote I made here

Its not always about what you do or how you do it but its the impact that matters. 

Reflections: Looking Back

Wow! Are we already half way done? 

This class has been amazing so far, and thats really saying something coming from me because I really dont care for reading or writing.  I think part of the reason that it has been so good is because of the feed back that people give. The feed back that people have given has been really helpful. I feel as though it has made me a better writer. I am also enjoying writing stories I try really hard to make them good.  My schedule for this class has worked pretty well. I just try to get one thing done a day  and that tends to keep me on track with my points. I also make this the first thing that i do every day and because of that i work on it from home. If I keep going the way that I am now I should end this class with an A!      

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Extra Reading Diary: West African Folktales

these were my thoughts while reading West African Folktales 

I really enjoyed reading How We Got the Name "Spider Tales"- that spider is a smart animal playing on the cockiness of the others to get what he wants. i really liked how it showed the characteristics of four different animals. the bees were over excited, the boa was two proud the tiger was to curious and the spider was smarter than them all.

so as i was responding to stories a few weeks ago i had read a rewrite version of Anansi and Nothing. I was excited to read this story again because the ending always cracks me up.

I thought that these stories would be similar to the south african stories but they were not. these stories were full of spiders. while the south african stories were full of jackals. I wonder why this difference is. it could just be the stories that were selected or it could be that people in south Africa did not see as many spiders. I know that native americans also use the spider as a trickster. I thinks that it is cool that two completely different people groups can both describe one animal in the same way

jumping spider from Wikimedia