Fall 2020

 Week 3, another week come and gone with the blink of an eye. I watched the Bruno Mars Uptown Funk Parody and thought it was hilarious. I love reading so I thought it was perfect!!

For my storybook, I think that using the Frog stories would be really interesting and give me so many different aspects to wrtie about. There are plethora of differnet stories out there that include a frog that fills many different roles. One of my favorites that I found was about the Fairy Frog that is a Jewish proverb. Then a whole site full of exclusive Frog stories ragning from the Frog Prince to the Enchanted Frog. I think that these would make a really good storybook. https://www.pitt.edu/~dash/frog.html Cupid and the Psyche would also be a very fun and eventful story to base my storybook on. There is so many twists and turns and drama contained within this story that would make for a good story book. I also think that there would be many ways in which I could manipulate this story and put my own twist on things.  Monkey See, Monkey Do was one of my favorite short stories to read and put my own twist on so it is definietly one that I am still considering using. One story I f...

 There once was a king who's land had fallen into a tretcherous despair. The land was not producing crops and the people had become poor and famished. The king was unhappy and hated to see his people in suffering so he went to the wise old owl who lived right outside the city gates.  The owl told the king that his land had fallen into despair becuase of their wickedness but that they still had hope for redemption. The owl commanded the king to bring his 3 best soldiers out to the city gates. Once there, the owl instructed them to each take a cistern of water and to head west. Once the men had run out of thier water that was were they would find a solution to the problem. As each man runs out of water he is to return home to the king. At last the king will have a solution.  As they set out, it was a terribly hot time of year and the first soldier drank up his water within a days time. The spot in which he landed was full of mulberry trees. At this discovery he quickly retu...

These stories come from the  Noah  unit. The first story source:  The King James Bible  (1611) Genesis and the the second is Louis Ginzberg  The Legends of the Jews  (1990) The second half, or part B, of the Noah unit was interesting. This section laid out where information came from and was a description of the way things worked. The stories all came from The Legends of the Jews which were adapted from The King James Bible.  The angel that Louis Ginzberg talks of in the first two stories of this section is a character that I may like to draw from. This angel, Samuel, was almost all knowing and had power due to his knowledge. I think a story would be told well and in a unique way if I were to create a character or orchestrates the events and is almost like a narrator for the entirety of the story. It would almost be a character who has previous knowledge of the end or outcome and yet gently nudges along the main characters from the beginning to the end...

These stories come from the Noah  unit. The first story source: The King James Bible (1611) Genesis and the the second is Louis Ginzberg The Legends of the Jews I chose this weeks readings because most of these are stories I have grown up reading and learning but never ones that I stopped and looked at the literature elements they contained. For the most part, the way that The King James Bible is written is somewhat confusing due to the language they use in it that we do not. I do like how the book of Genesis describes in great detail the events that are occuring without using to many words. Many descriptions are consice yet very specific. I am not sure that these are the particular stories that I would want to redo. However those written by Louis Ginzberg were slightly easier to read and follow along with as he himself has rewritten many of the stories one could find in The King James Bible in a way that is easier for the average person to read without the need for previous know...

This would definitely fall into the category of outside of class; however, it is very exciting to me so I thought it would be fun to write about. For a long time now I have been casually looking to get a dog and slowly working to convince my parents t o let me. Luckily for me a little over a week ago an opportunity to get a golden doodle puppy fell into my lap and I jumped at it. So now I am that annoying obsessed dog mom that I told myself I would never become. My sweet pup Luka is 8 weeks old with lots of energy but is already so well behaved. One of her favorite things to do is go on walks, ride in the car or play with her favorite rabbit toy. I hope to have her trained well enough that she will go on walks and run with me without having to use a leash. So far she does this pretty well but I think it may just be because she’s so little she’s scared to run too far from me. Between me, my two roommates and my parents she sure is a spoiled puppy and she knows it. I have a good feeling ...