Drew Myth & Folk

For the story lab i decided to do it over the article 8 Reasons to Join an Online Course . This Article hit on eight key points which are as follows, Varety is good, the location, the time is up to you, teaching, coaching and feedback, the pace is up to you, the topics and lessons are up to you, community and after-course support.  These are very interesting points and I think the top three that I agree with would be location of the online course is very important because it allows me to adapt it into my day. This leads into the next point I like which would be the time is up to you. This is very important to me as I am very busy now in my senor year studying mechanical engineering and have very little free time. the third and final point that I think really sold this article was the coaching and feedback. With online classes, most of the time the feedback your receive on assignments is very good, and very instructive on what you can change. This was a very good article and really...

The story that drew my attention for today's reading notes was the story of The Boy in the Moon . This story came from the Alaskan legends section of the Native American Stories. This was a very interesting story where there use to be four brothers that had a sister. They were friends with a boy. then one day the boy fell for the girl. One day the girl saw a ladder and decided to ascend it. With this the girl started to float away. the boy saw this and started to run after her but could never catch her. The girl became the sun and the boy became the moon. that is why if you ever notice the sun and moon are always chasing and opposing each other. no matter what the moon can never catch the sun. and when ever the moon is weak the sun gives it more. The plot that i got from this was that no matter how fast you chase those you love, you may never catch them, but no matter how far you are from them you can still help them as the girl helps the boy when he is low on energy. ( The im...

The story I chose to read for the first reading this week was the Raven's Feast . This story came from the Alaskan Native American Section. This was a somewhat difficult read in understanding what was going on throughout the story.  But from what I gathered in this story the Raven was having a Burial feast for his mother that recently died. In the story the raven invited the Gonaqadet because it had a special hat and blanket. This was interesting because it really did not go into much more detail of what this character did. So fir this story i did not really put a underlying plot from it. (The Picture is of a Raven, Picture Source: Raven )

There once was a middle-aged archery hunter named Scott. He and his wife Amy lived in Utah where they raised there very trustworthy Nova Scotia Duck Tolling retriever named Bell. Scott’s best friend Jimmy was the owner of a bow shop called nocked and ready. Scott and Jimmy would spend all their time together in that shop reminiscing on old stories or at the range where it was a constant competition. Scott brought bell everywhere with him whether it be the archery shop or shooting. With this Jimmy had grown very close to bell as well. Scott would go on very long hunts sometimes for a week or two weeks and needed someone to watch over bell when he was gone and when Amy was at work. So Jimmy being the good friend he was would just bring bell to his shop to hang out. During this time bell grew very close to jimmy and without Scott even noticing bell started to favor jimmy. Scott did not notice this until he came home from a hunt and Bell would not greet him and only stayed by Jimmy’s...

The story that drew my attention in the African Tales came from the Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria. The story is  The story of the Lightning and the Thunder.   This story was very interesting in that it put a story to lightening and thunder. The Story rendered a plot that the sons destruction ended in banishment from earth. And even though the destruction is not right in front of you can still see its affects from a far. In this then mothers discipline when she raises her voice is what we hear as thunder today. And the destruction being don’t by the ram is what we view as lightening today. (Picture is of the ram in causing his destruction with lightning, Source: Lightning )

The story that drew my attention in the African Tales came from the Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria. The story is The Fish and the Leopard’sWife .   This was a very interesting story where the main theme I got from it was do not betray those who are close to you, because they will not directly hurt you but will make you pay for a long time. In the story the leopard was friends with the fish. But the leopard would often time go out of town. Whenever the leopard was gone the fish would go make love with his wife. The leopard came home early one trip and found this. He did not want to deal with the fish directly, so he asked King Eyo to deal with it. The king made it so that fish could only live in the water and if they left the water they would die, as well on top if a fish was caught it was always eaten. This story was interesting in that the entire fish community had to pay for the wrong doing of the one fish. (Picture is of a leopard, Source: Leopard

I am very happy with the progress, I am most proud of my story about the competitive angler. I do have a good weekly routine that I plan to stick with.  I personally enjoy adding the stories to my portfolio and customizing that page. I believe that my website is coming along very nicely and the stories pages are very welcoming and intriguing. I do not plan to really change anything that I am doing in the second half of the semester. I will proofread a lot more . I might try to change the formats of my story a little bit to make it easier for the reader. (This is a picture of someone skiing, and it will push me to the end of the semester because I will be Canada skiing in a week, Picture Source: Skiing )

I believe that the comment portion of this class is very useful wen thinking of future story topics. It allows you to see how other students interpret your story and how you might change them accordingly. The comments I have received have been very useful when editing my stories and portfolio. I believe the comments I have been leaving on my peer’s pages are very beneficial to their story’s improvement. I do believe this is giving me some connection to my peers in this class. I might be a little more critical on my future comments. but that is just a thought. (I thought this picture was very funny, Source: Cats )

Overall in the Myth and Folklore class I believe the reading and writing assignments are working really well for me. I key in on what I enjoy in the reading assignments and it is making the stories much easier to make. I am very happy with my blog and Project website. I am somewhat satisfied with how the writing is going so far for the project and story posts, I do believe i could possibly up the quality of these posts though. I believe my biggest accomplishment in the writings for this class would be taking the plot from another story and applying it to a totally different story that  have created. My favorite reading so far would definitely be the one where the lion tries to say that all of the portions of the meat are his. The reading notes I have been writing after the readings are definitley helping me when I go to write the story over them, and they help remind me what that story was about. (Image is of an Indian Elephant, Source:  Elephant ) The image I have cho...