Famous Last Words: Down the Rabbit Hole

This week is the beginning of the crazy. Started off the week with the realization that I forgot the bibliography for my project and my email was acting up so I didn't know about it until after the due date. So that was fun. I also have two group projects I am working on. It is funny how different two groups can be. One of my groups are really organized and I feel very prepared for the presentation. Then my other group is a little more chaotic. Though, in our defense, the project is kind of confusing and I don't feel like we are receiving a lot of guidance. I feel like it is getting hard to keep up with everything. It can be really discouraging. I am trying to just keep my head above the water. I kind of feel like I am Alice falling through the rabbit hole. I feel like I have been falling for too long. I am wondering if I will ever hit the bottom.

Speaking of Alice, I have really enjoyed reading Alice and Wonderland for my bonus reading the last couple of weeks. I watched the cartoon version as a child, and have recently enjoyed the Tim Burton version of the movies. I especially enjoy Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter. It was really nice to read how the original story was written and to compare it to the movies. Although, I really would like to know how a raven is like a writing desk. Any suggestions?

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On another note, the game was awesome yesterday! I love an OU win! Especially when it gets us one step closer to getting into the playoffs! I am not sure I want to go to Pacadina though. I think I would rather go back to New Orleans. We tend to have good luck in the Sugar Bowl.

Week 12 Review

Monsters in America

I liked this image because I like seeing what creatures would live in america and where you could find them. Kind of reminded me of something that seemed like it should be in Supernatural.

Wikipedia Trail: From Haiku to Haeckel

Haiku

A haiku is a very short form of Japanese poetry. It is common to describe two images juxtaposed together.

Nouvelle Revue Française

Nouvelle Revue Française is a magazine based in France. The magazine started in 1909 and used to be a monthly publication. It is now a quarterly magazine.

World War I

World War I, or the Great War, started on July 28, 1914 and lasted until November 11, 1918. Over 9 million soldiers and 7 million civilians died during this war.

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Ernst Haeckel

Ernst Haeckel was a German biologist that named thousands of species. He was the first person to use the term "First world war" to describe The Great War (World War I).

Growth Mindset: Fears

Video: YouTube

I really enjoyed this Ted Talk. Karen had a lot of great insights about fear. I hadn't ever thought about how they can be like stories. However, I see where she got that. When you are afraid of something happening your mind writes out the worst possible scenario and creates a story to prepare you for the worst. I also liked how she used the story that inspired Moby Dick in her presentation. She mentioned that the sailors chose the fear that was most vivid for them. Even though the ones that aren't as vivid may be more likely to harm you.

Learning Challenge: Reading out loud

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Reading outloud is a totally different experience than reading to yourself. I normally read in my head, so I feel like reading outloud took me a little more time. I enjoyed the fact that reading out loud gives the characters a voice and personality. I feel like it may have been more effective with this reading because it was with characters I was already familiar with. However, I think I will continue to read in my head. I am a fairly quick reader and have a vivid imagination. With new stories especially I feel like reading outloud will have me concentrating more on getting the words rather than being immersed in the story.

Reading extra credit: Alice in Wonderland part b

Alice in Wonderland

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I now constantly think of the new alice in wonderland when it comes to the mad hatter. Johnny Depp was able to completely remake this character for me for the better. I do really want to know why a raven is like a writing desk though.

Alice finds herself amongst the mad hatter, march hare, and dormouse and decides to join them for tea. Alice is utterly confused with how the conversations seem to be going. The other characters seem to be talking in riddles. The dormouse keeps going to sleep. The party then starts to talk about Time. I wish I knew time and could just whisper to Time and ask him to make the weekends longer and the mondays shorter. I think most everyone would not object to the change. However, I would hate to be on the bad side of time like the Hatter. Always 6 o'clock. Time forever staying still.

They then decide that they wanted to hear a story from the dormouse. He tells a story of three sisters who live in the bottom of a treacle well and drew everything that began with the letter "M". Alice became very frustrated with this story that made no sense. She kept asking questions and wondering how any of it was possible. She eventually decided to leave the tea party altogether because the hosts of the party were being so rude. However, she was the one to intrude on their party without being invited.

Tech Tip: Google Define

I kind of had an idea of this feature on google because half the time if I don't know what a word is I type it into google. I did not know how to take a screenshot on my computer, so that was something cool that I learned on this tech tip. For those fellow mac owners it is: Command+shift+4. Hold those down and it will let you select part of your screen for the screenshot.

Week 12 reading B: The Shee An Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire

There once was a fairy that went to ask for the hand of the daughter of the king in marriage. The only way the king would give the fairy his daughter’s hand in marriage is if he can accomplish the tasks and find out what stopped the laughing goblin from laughing, for his laugh could be heard all over the world. In the garden there were 12 iron spikes, 11 of them had the heads of kings sons who also came seeking his daughter.  Not one of them were able to get the answer to why the goblin had stopped laughing so their heads were mounted on spikes. The fairy made no answer but set out on his quest.

The fairy traveled all day until he came to a house, saying he was a man for hire. The man hired him to watch the cows, and in return received food and a place to sleep. At supper the fairy found out the man was the laughing goblin himself. The next morning the goblin instructed him to take his 5 golden cows and his bull with no horns out to the pasture, but to keep them away from the land of the giant.

He drove the cattle to the pasture and saw the land of the giant. He noticed that it was covered in woods and high walls. He proceeded to take the cows on the land and climb a tree to eat apples. Then there was a great crashing coming from the woods. It was the giant who had come to eat the fairy and his cows. They fought all afternoon and just when the giant had the upper hand the fairy grew strength and bested the giant. He then beheaded the 5 heads of the giant and cut out each of their tongues.

That night he slept and the next morning he asked the goblin why he had stopped laughing. The goblin refused to answer, which angered the fairy. Eh ran through the house like a madman finding some rope. The fairy bound him up until he agreed to tell him his secret. The goblin told him that he use to live in a castle with his 12 sons, until one day a brown hare came in tossed up ashes from the fire and then ran away.  The Hare came again and this time the goblins followed him to a small house owned by yellow face and his 12 daughters. Yellow face gave them the choice between an iron pike and a wood pike, and then to pull food from the pot. The goblin received nothing so him and his sons fasted while the others ate. The next morning he gave him him the choice to put his own neck in a wood ring or his 12 sons in iron which then lead to his sons death. He was then shaved and had a sheep back put on his own.

The fairy stayed until one day the hare came back, and he followed and killed it in front of yellow face. Yellow face offered the same challenge as before but this time he choose the wood pike and yellow face starved that night.

Weekly Reading 12: The Field of Boliauns

One day during the Lady Day harvest tom was walking through the fields, when he heard a weird noise coming from behind the hedge. He wanted to know what the crazy noise from behind the hedge was, but when he looked all eh saw was a big brown jug of liquor. Then a small little old man appeared from behind the jug with a crooked hat and brown apron. Tom was so thrilled to see a leprechaun because he had never seen one before and know he had to keep it in his sites at all times. Tom started to talk to the little man admiring his work, and asked him kindly what was in the pitcher he had with him. The old man told him it was very good beer.  He explained that he had made it with heath instead of barley and tom did not believe that the leprechaun was telling the truth. He then began to explain he was telling the truth and that it was a secret family recipe. Tom asked for a taste but then the little man told him that his cow had escaped and was breaking his crops. He knew he was being tricked so he grabbed for the little man, spilling the beer before he could taste it. Tom was so mad he threatened to kill the little man if he didn’t show him his pot of gold. The gold was under the ground and in his haste Tom forgot his shovel so eh went back to get it, making the spot where the gold was.  He then released the little man who promised not to move his marking but by the time he got back everything but the making was gone and he dug and dug not beign able to find the gold.