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Extra Credit Reading Notes: LibriVox Part A

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For my final reading in this class I decided to do it over the LibriVox unit. This unit had all kinds of fun stories like Rapunzel, Briar Rose (sleeping beauty), the Frog Prince, and the Twelve Dancing Princesses. It also had stories that I have not heard before like The Straw, The Coal, and The Bean.  I also liked how short these stories were. They were all only 1 page long. The language was contemporary English which made it easy to read. There was lots of personification in these stories which made them extra fun. The frog for example could talk to the princess.  There were several rhymes in the stories too which gave it rhythm and style. My favorite had to be the Twelve Dancing Princesses, but I am very biased because that was one of my favorite stories to hear growing up. I even had a movie about it that was produced by Barbie.  Overall, I am very satisfied with this being my last reading. It was fun. It was creative. It was everything I thought it would be when I heard it was go
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Famous Last Words: Finally Done!

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Yay! I made it! This is the home stretch of this semester and this class. I never thought I would make it. This semester has been nothing but difficult. I have worked so much this semester and have really struggled to get everything done. Honestly, I feel like I should have focused a little more on school, but now there is nothing I can do except move forward and do better next semester.  Despite this, I feel really proud of what I have accomplished and the stories that I have created in my story portfolio. This class was unlike anything I have ever done before, and I am pleased with how my website and blog turned out. My work was by far not the best in the class, but this was way outside of my comfort zone but I decided to embrace it and try my best.  I read so many amazing stories from other students in this class. Even though this class was mythology, I really think it allowed me to dive deep into my creative side. I might even keep my blog going or start a new one that will just al
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Week 15 Lab

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For this story lab I decided to do it over TV Tropes .  The fantasy page talked about how the genre is an escape from the normality of reality. The storylines are endless and the borders of fiction do not exist. That is what makes this genre so exceptional. I learned that there are 3 common themes in fiction: a secondary world, appeal to pastoral ideal, and magic and powers.  I also learned that there are way more genres than what I originally thought. I thought there was only fiction, nonfiction, romance, adventure, thriller, horror, and mystery. There are actually so many more! There's sports, sea stories, poetry, mythology, military, and so much more!  I really liked this story lab because it allowed me to read about so many genres that I did not know existed. Literacy is so much broader than I could have ever imagined.  Expand your learning by Flickr
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Reading Notes: Jacobs Part A

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I was so pleased reading the Jacobs unit because it had all of the old fairy tales like Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, and Puss in Boots but they are written in modern language which made it a whole lot easier to read than the other unit I did in Week 14.  The Cinderella story in this unit was called Cinder-Maid which I thought was clever since Cinderella was basically just the house maid by her step-sisters and her mother. However, the shoe that Cinderella lost was a golden shoe which is different from the other stories I have read.  The Beauty and the Beast story was very similar to the other ones I have read and the one that I used to create my own version of Beauty and the Beast. The daughter's name was Bella which is very close to the Disney version where her name is Belle. In the story, instead of there being a tea cup and candlestick that moved and talked, there were invisible hands. The beast appeared to have died at the end of the story, however the hide had split and a
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Reading Notes: Lang II Part A

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Since I enjoyed the Lang I reading from week 14, I figured I would look at the Lang II for this week's reading.  My favorite reading from this section was Toads and Diamonds . This story was about a mother and two daughters. The mother favored one daughter over the other and treated the other very poorly. Her mother's bad actions came back to bite her in the booty because when she sent the daughter she disliked to fetch some water, the daughter was granted a wish by a fairy for being so kind. The mother saw that her daughter now spilled jewels and pearls from her mouth when she spoke, so she sent her favored daughter to go get blessed by the fairy. The fairy, however, knew the mother would be greedy and do that so she instead cursed the favored daughter and make snakes and toads come from her mouth when she spoke.  This type of story has a life lesson with it. Treat others with kindness and you will be rewarded. The mistreated daughter had no idea that the old woman whom she wa
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Wikipedia Trail: Robin Hood and Little John to Ballads

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Since my final story for my project is over Robin Hood and Little John, I decided to go on a Wikipedia Trail and do some research.  This is the first website I came across:  Robin Hood and Little John - Wikipedia This gave me a really good starting point and from this page I learned that Robin Hood and many other child ballads were collected by Francis James Child.  Then I decided to look up Mr. Francis James Child:  Francis James Child - Wikipedia Mr. Child was actually American scholar who is best known for the Child Ballads. So, of course I looked the Child Ballads up:  Child Ballads - Wikipedia The Child Ballads are actually 305 ballads from Scottish and English authors. It is no wonder that most of our children stories that we hear today originated from this collection. Then I decided to go ahead and look up what exactly a ballad is:  Ballad - Wikipedia This website told me that ballads are typically 13 lines long and could go along with music because they follow the ABAB, AABA, o
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Famous Last Words: Final Week

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Thank goodness this semester is almost over! I thought I would never finish. This semester has honestly been the hardest one for me since I have been at OU. I am not really sure why that is, but maybe because I have been getting promoted at work and have been taking 16 hours at the same time. I had some rocky points in this class and went a couple weeks while I was in Denver where I went without doing homework which really set me back.  I am so appreciative that this class has the flexibility that I am still able to recover and do well. This is why I think more classes need to be like this one at OU because sometimes things happen in our daily lives that professors don't consider. I really enjoyed doing the Robin Hood and Puss in Boots readings this week. For example, this past weekend has been another really tough time for me and I did not get everything I wanted to accomplish done. I won't bore you with the details, but I shed a lot of tears in the last couple of days and tha
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Reading Notes: Lang I Puss in Boots (extra credit since I missed the deadline)

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Since I missed my second reading for this week I decided to use the extra credit option to make up for it. I chose to do the reading over Lang I because it involved stories like "Puss in Boots" which I recognized from Shrek. I thought it would be neat to learn where the original came from and how it compares to the story I grew up with.  Puss in Boots originated in France which I had no idea of. The language is old and instead of saying donkey they say "ass". You can also tell how old the original is because it talks about things like the "mill". I thought it was interesting that Puss in Boots could talk to his master in English. This personification was very similar to Shrek. What was different in this story was that the cat was getting money so his master would not lose his home. In Shrek, Puss in Boots was just a good little thief.  Puss in Boots used his cleverness to trick the King and steal his clothes. This turned into a little trickster story which
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Reading Notes: Brothers Grimm Part A

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I decided to do this section for the reading today because it included stories like Cinderella (which is called aschenputtel) and Snow White.  This unit actually had 4 different units in different languages which is exactly like Europe with the many different places and cultures. I really enjoyed the Europe readings and this is probably one of my favorite units we have done this far. It had imagery, personification, magic, and lots of creativity.  I love fairytales, so I figured this would be a fun reading to do. Aschenputtel was very easy to read, but did contain some words that I was not familiar with like kirtle. This is definitely because of the European culture that these stories originated from.  These stories were also very fairy tale oriented which I did not mind. This Grimm unit really had it all when it came to stories which would make it really fun to write a story over. It had humor, romance, and the classics.  I will probably end up doing Part B for the reading tomorrow be
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Review: Week 13

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Everything has been successfully backed up on my spare hard drive just in case anything goes wonky.  I currently have 342 points in this class so far and I am still a little behind. I have been working really hard to try and get that up because I want to make an A so badly in this class!  The blog stream really caught my attention in the announcements and I actually added to the Padlet which was fun! The sleeping baby clip was my favorite because I definitely need to catch up on some sleep myself. I really liked this image because it holds such a powerful message. You can find the image here
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