Week 3: Famous Last Words

This week has been tough for me. I chose a unit that was hard for me to get through. I used up all of my ahead time just trying to get through all the reading and dairy post. Luckily today I was able to get a day and a half ahead. I hope to use this weekend as time to get ahead as well. I really enjoyed the storytelling I did today. I took a short story without a lot of detail and made a new story based off of it. I got to be pretty creative with it and I didn't think it was that hard to do. I read an amazing story told by Elizabeth Harper. She wrote about the same story that I did in week 2. She made a completely different story than I did though. We both read Cupid and Psyche but she focused on the bandits’ part of the story where I focused on the Cupid part of the story. Elizabeth’s story was very creative and written quite nicely. Her story was one of the best story telling’s I have read between the Epics of India class I took last year and this Mythology/Folklore class. She is truly an amazing writer. I get into my groove by brainstorming ideas about a story to tell while I am reading the story. I come up with many ideas and then throughout the next couple of days I come up with a story that basically writes itself. It’s all in my head I just have to type it into word. Manly to spell check myself and so I know that it meets the word limit. Then I find a picture and I’m basically done. It’s pretty much that easy. Hopefully it will stay that easy. My other classes have really picked up all three have had homework to do which probably helped make me lose my jump ahead but I will get back ahead. It will just take a little time.

Good Times Lie Ahead

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Essay Week 3: Aesop (Winter)

This week I read Aesop (Winter). This was a very different unit from the one I read the second week of class. The second week I read Cupid and Psyche. That unit is a story that continues from part to part. Aesop (Winter) does not. Aesop has many short stories for each part. There are 20 parts and about four to five stories per part. That makes somewhere around 80 stories if not more. The stories are not that long but there is a lot of changing from story to story. I did enjoy each little story and the moral they provided. The number of stories was taxing on my mind though. I had a really hard time staying focused. I guess I find it much easier if I read one continuous story. I really liked The Dog, the Cock, and the Fox. I ended up choosing it as my storytelling base story. I really liked the moral. “Those who try to deceive may expect to be paid in their own coin.” This is so true. Karma will come back and get you. There weren’t really any stories that I did not like. They were all great but there were a lot of them. I chose this unit and thought to myself a lot of little stories would be great. I was correct they were all great but this unit wore me out. I spent a lot of my ahead time just trying to finish all the stories. I also was writing a brief overview of each little story at the beginning of my reading diary. That quickly changed when the first two parts took me over an hour to get through. Overall, I think this is a great unit. I just think everyone should know that there is a little more work with this unit.

Aesop (Winter)

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Storytelling Week 3: A Boy and his Older Brother

This is a story about a young boy, Tom, and his older brother, John. Two days before school started Tom went to his brother and told him he was scared about school starting. John told little Tom not to worry about high school. Tom informed John that he was more scared of being picked on than going to school itself. John was saddened by this but told his little brother that we would make sure no one picked on him. He also told him to avoid a guy named Mike.

School started and John was enjoying his senior year. He was a star athlete and everyone looked up to him. He would walk down the halls and everyone would high five him and tell him hello. Tom, on the other hand, was into math and science. He was considered a nerd and walked through the halls virtually unseen. His first few days went by okay. He enjoyed the classes he was in except for gym but he thought maybe this year would be alright anyways. Then the second week started. Tom met a new guy named Mike. He is a junior but wanted to be friends with Tom. He told Tom that he would drive him to lunch and to the mall whenever he needed. At first Tom thought that was a great idea. They hung out a couple of times but then Mike told Tom he would beat him if he did not help him with his math homework. That is when Tom realized that this was the Mike his older brother had warned him about.

Tom’s nightmare had come true. He was about to be bullied by Mike. Tom thought about just doing the work for Mike and just try to make it through the year. He did Mikes first homework assignment but that was not enough. Mike wanted him to do all of his homework for him. That is when Tom knew he had made a mistake. So Tom went to his brother John and told him about Mike. John came up with a plan for school the next day.

Mike met Tom in the hall at school and asked him where his homework was. Tom told him he was done doing his homework for him. This infuriated Mike. Mike went to grab Tom but Tom took off running. Mike chased him. Tom turned a corner and Mike followed. Before Mike could even try to turn and run away John had a hold of him. John picked Mike up and walked him outside. He told Mike that if he ever talked to his brother again then he would do more than just pick him up and take him outside. John also added that if he ever heard of Mike bullying anyone he would not like the consequences. Mike knew he had made a mistake and never bullied again.

Author’s Note: This story was based off of a story from Aesop (Winter). The story is The Dog, the Cock, and the Fox. That story was about a fox that tried to trick a fox into coming out of a tree so he could eat him. Instead the Cock tricks the fox into entering the tree where the dog grabs him. I changed this to two brothers and a bully. The bully tricks the younger brother into thinking he was his friend but in the end the little brother tricks the bully into being caught by his brother. I thought this was a nice way to tell the story and still keep mostly the same moral to the story. The picture is from the story.

 

The Dog, the Cock, and the Fox

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Bibliography: Book: The Dog, the Cock, and the Fox 

Author:  Pictures by Milo Winter

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Week 3 Reading Diary: Aesop (Winter)

This week I chose to read Aesop (Winter).

Page 1: The Wolf and the Kid and the Tortoise and the Ducks

The wolf and the kid moral is “do not let anything turn you from your purpose.” In the story a wolf catches a young goat by itself. The kid knowing it will be eaten asks the wolf to play him a song. The wolf agrees and this causes the dogs that herd the goats to hear and race back and save the kid.

The Tortoise and the Ducks moral is “Foolish curiosity and vanity often lead to misfortune.” A tortoise always carries its home on its back as punishment; do to its laziness that caused him to miss Jupiter’s wedding. One day a tortoise meets two ducks that agree to take him flying. He grabbed a stick with his mouth and so did the two duck and they took flight. The tortoise tries to say he is the kind of tortoises when asked by a crow. This causes him to lose the stick and fall to the earth and die.

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The Dog, The Cock, and the Fox moral is “those who try to deceive may expect to be paid in their own coin.” This story a dog and a cock go on an adventure to the forest. They stay the night in a hollow tree. The next morning the cock is found by a fox on a branch of the tree. The fox tries to lie and say he wants to be friends with the cock but really just wanted to eat him. The cock tells the fox to enter the hollow tree and that is when the dog grabs the fox.

The Eagle and the Jackdaw moral is “Do not let your vanity make you overestimate your powers.” A jackdaw sees an eagle swoop down and grab a lamb and fly away. He thinks he can do the same. He tries but only gets stuck in the wool. A farmer finds him clips his wings and takes him home. His children ask what it is he says, “This is a jackdaw but if you ask him he would say he is an eagle.”

The boy and the Filberts moral is “Do not attempt too much at once.” A boy sticks his hand in a jar to grab nuts but is unable to take it out due to the handful he grabbed. He was not willing to give up any nuts to get his hand out. His mother tells him to take half as many nuts and then grab more after he gets his hand out.

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The Ass and his Driver moral is “They who will not listen to reason, but stubbornly go their own way against the friendly advice of those who are wiser than they, are on the road to misfortune.” An ass decides the best way down is over a cliff his master tries to keep him from going that way. The ass keeps pulling and ends up tumbling down the mountain side.

The Oxen and the Wheels moral is “They complain most who suffer least.” Oxen are pulling a heavy load while the wheels of the cart drone on and on with complaints. Eventually the oxen tell them to shut up they are not the ones pulling all the weight.

The Gnat and the Bull moral is “The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.” A Gnat lands on a bulls horn to rest and says you must be glad I am leaving now before he flew away but the bull never even knew he was there.

The Plane tree moral is “Our best blessings are often the least appreciated.” People lay under a tree and say it is plane because it does not have fruit and say it is useless. The tree replies that it gives them shade so how is it useless.

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The Farmer and the Stork moral is “You are judged by the company you keep.”

The Sheep and the Pig moral is “It is easy to be brave when there is no danger.”

The Travelers and the Purse moral is “We cannot expect any one to share our misfortunes unless we are willing to share our good fortune also.”

The Lion and the Ass moral is “Do not resent the remarks of a fool. Ignore them.”

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The Owl and the Grasshopper moral is “Do not let flattery throw you off your guard against an enemy.”

The Wolf and his Shadow moral is “Do not let your fancy make you forget realities.”

The Rat and the Elephant moral is “A resemblance to the great in some things does not make us great.”

The Boy and the Frogs moral is “Always stop to think whether your fun may not be the cause of another's unhappiness.”

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The Ass Carrying the Image moral is “Do not try to take the credit to yourself that is due to others.”

Two Goats moral is “It is better to yield than to come to misfortune through stubbornness.”

The Ass and the Load of Salt moral is “The same measures will not suit all circumstances.”

The Lion and the Gnat morals are “The least of our enemies is often the most to be feared.

Pride over a success should not throw us off our guard.”

The Leap at Rhodes moral is “Deeds count, not boasting words.”

The Monkey and the Camel moral is “Do not try to ape your betters.”

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The Wild Boar and the Fox moral is “Preparedness for war is the best guarantee of peace.”

The Ass, the Fox, and the Lion moral is “Traitors may expect treachery.”

The Lion, the Bear, and the Fox moral is “Those who have all the toil do not always get the profit.”

The Travelers and the Sea moral is “Do not let your hopes carry you away from reality.”

The Wolf and the Lion moral is “What is evil won is evil lost.”

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The Mice and the Weasels moral is “Greatness has its penalties.”

The Wolf and the Lean Dog morals are “Do not depend on the promises of those whose interest it is to deceive you. Take what you can get when you can get it.”

The Lion and the Ass moral is “The loud-mouthed boaster does not impress nor frighten those who know him.”

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The Dog and his Master’s Dinner moral is “Do not stop to argue with temptation.”

The Monkey and the Dolphin moral is “One falsehood leads to another.”

The Wolf and the Ass moral is “Stick to your trade.”

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The Monkey and the Cat moral is “The flatterer seeks some benefit at your expense.”

The Dogs and the Fox moral is “It is easy and also contemptible to kick a man that is down.”

The Dogs and the Hides moral is “Do not try to do impossible things.”

The Rabbit, the Weasel, and the Cat moral is “The strong are apt to settle questions to their own advantage.
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The Bear and the bees moral is “It is wiser to bear a single injury in silence than to provoke a thousand by flying into a rage.”

The Fox and the Leopard moral is “A fine coat is not always an indication of an attractive mind.”

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The Cat the Cock and the Young Mouse moral is “Do not trust alone to outward appearances.”

The Wolf and the Sheppard moral is “Once a wolf, always a wolf.”

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The Fighting Bulls and the Frog moral is “When the great fall out, the weak must suffer for it.”

The Cat and the Birds moral is “Be wise and shun the quack.”

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The Frog and the Mouse moral is “Those who seek to harm others often come to harm themselves through their own deceit.”

The Fox and the Crab moral is “Be content with your lot.”

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The Bull and the Goat moral is “It is wicked to take advantage of another's distress.”

The Eagle and the Beetle moral is “Even the weakest may find means to avenge a wrong.”

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The Bat and the Weasels moral is “Set your sails with the wind.”

The Quack Toad moral is “Those who would mend others, should first mend themselves.”

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The Flies and the Honey moral is “Be not greedy for a little passing pleasure. It may destroy you.”

The Eagle and the Kite moral is “Everything is fair in love.”

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The Lark and Her Young Ones moral is “Self-help is the best help.”

The Cat and the Old Rat moral is “The wise do not let themselves be tricked a second time.”

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The Ass and His Shadow moral is “In quarreling about the shadow we often lose the substance.”

The Ant and the Dove moral is “A kindness is never wasted.”

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The Hare and His Ears moral is “Your enemies will seize any excuse to attack you.”

The Wolves and the Sheep moral is “Do not give up friends for foes."