Week 8: Review

Spring Break is over. I am taking this with sadness as well as happiness. 

Found on Class Announcements

I am sad to say there was no more time for putting off homework. It time to get back to work and get things done. I am also excited to finish out this semester, with the hopes of summer ahead! 

Over break, I stayed in Norman and worked almost every day. I also had the chance to spend the week with my sister. She was able to come down and we had a great time! It was nice to hang out with someone close to me and get some good laughs! 

Spring break was just a small glimpse off what this summer will be and I am very excited. So I am taking all this excitement and using it as motivation. Motivation to keep on top of things through the rest of the semester! I have goals in mind that I fully plan on accomplishing!

Summer is right around the corner!

Tech Tip: Quotemaker

I tried out a quote maker using Canva. I used my own personal photo and wrote something new on the picture. I liked beong able to use my own photo and originality. I hope to incorperate more of my own sayings and photos in my future blogs. The biggest challenge was finding a picture that would work with a quote. Picking a font and color that also shows up in your picture is a challenge.

Personally made on Canva

Week 8: Reading

Native American Reading for Week 9-10

First, I plan on raeding the Great Plains. I picked this unit because I am also working on a research paper over the Cheyenne Indians. They are part of the Great Plain Indians. I hope to learn as much as I can. I also hope to understand and learn from their myths. 

I am excited about these next two weeks reading. I usually choose a Native American reading for my extra credit readings. Now I can rad even more about them. Once I saw the Native American unit I knew the problem wouldn't be picking one. It would be picking just one. Usually, I find myself reading the story from multiple units trying t choose one. This time, I found myself continuing to read!

The Creation story from the Un-Textbook

Second,  I would like to read the Cherokee unit. I am choosing to focus on the Cherokee Indians for my storybook. I am also part Cherokee and love learning about any part of me that I can. I am also very familiar with a few of their myths already. One I am the family find of is, The First Fire. I find it very interesting how certain things (in this case fire) came onto or into this world. 

British/Celtic Week 11-12

Third, from the British unit I plan on reading English Tales.  I was interested in the story The Rose Tree. It was fun to read with its different sections. It reminded me of other childhood tales such as; Hansel and Grettle, The Three Little Pigs and The Boy Who Cried Wolf. I look forward to this unit. 

Fourth, Nursery Rhymes. I have been wanting to rewrite a story as a nursery rhyme all semester. So I choose this unit for inspiration. I also wanted to choose a different type of reading. Something I don't usually choose. Something that is ew to me. 

European Week 13-14

Fifth, Hunt unit. This unit is full of stories such as; Bearskin, Hansel and Gretel, and Snow White. I am really looking forward to basing a story from one of these readings. I know these stories as they are told today. These, on the other hand, were published in 1884. I am interested to read more into them as they were written so long ago. 

Sixth, Another unit from the Brothers Grimm, Ashliman. I thought it would be interesting to choose this unit because it also has a few stories I have heard as a kid. One of the stories I looked into was Rumpelstiltskin. When I began to read this story It was not how I remembered it. I still enjoyed the story, though. I look forward to seeing the differences and similarities in the other stories. 

From Un-Textbook

Week 8: Time Schedule

Time is of the essence.

At the begging of the year, I choose the time schedule of three hours on Sunday and three hours on Saturday. So far this schedule has been working great for me. I get half my assignments done on Sunday at the start of the week. Then when I have time in my week I work on the rest of my assignments. Usually, I can get most all my assignments done before Saturday. This gives me time to finished up any assignments on Saturday and do some extra credit. This is a great schedule for me and I plan on keeping it. It also works great because I always have Sundays off from work. I usually work through weeknights and Saturday morning.

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