Myth-Folklore

Native American Hero Tales Bibliography: Native American Hero Tales by Stith Thompson  myth-folklore-unit-native-american_10.html The was an evil uncle who always killed the next nephew born into their family. His wife figure that when the next boy was born he could take the child right away and pretend it was a girl. The woman had the child and the uncle thought it was a girl so he let it be. A few years passed and the little boy was changing and the uncle found out that it was a boy. So he said tomorrow you will come with me into the woods. The wife was very upset and cried all night. The boy took three things from his room before he left. He took a small knife, a special juice, and blow up small raft.  The uncle took the boy out into the woods. They went hunting and the boy kept seeing things to hunt but the uncle insisted they keep going. They came across a bear and the uncle let the bear eat the boy. The uncle went home and left the boy to die. The boy pulled out the knif...

Native American Hero Tales Bibliography: Native American Hero Tales by Stith Thompson  myth-folklore-unit-native-american_10.html There was a couple and the women was pregnant. While the husband was out hunting the Red-women came and cut open her stomach. She found two twin boys. She threw one behind the curtain and the other in a spring. She stood the women up with a stick and burned her lip to make it look like she was laughing. Her husband came home, tired from hunting and asked why his wife was laughing at him. He then pushed her over and realized she was dead and he knew the red women had done it.  The man heard a voice ask for food and the boy came out of the curtain. The boy asked his dad to make him arrows and later that day he shot them at the boy who was living in the spring. The father said that the boy should tell the spring boy to come and live with them. So they planned to play arrows one day. They caught the boy and brought him back to their house and they all l...

 Native American Hero Tales Bibliography: Native American Hero Tales by Stith Thompson  myth-folklore-unit-native-american_10.html There was a man known as the "unnatural Uncle. " He killed his nephews after they turned a couple years old and already had done it a couple times. The wife of this man planned to have a another child and lie about the fact if it was a boy and pretend that it was a girl. The nephew was born and brought up like a girl but the unnatural uncle always thought she acted like a boy. The unnatural uncle found out that it was really a boy and told his wife to have him come meet him. Before he left his house he took three items with him, a sour cranberry, a piece of a knife, and some eagle-down. He said lets go find some wood to the boy. The uncle trapped him underneath a pile of wood but the boy used a sour cranberry he had to get himself out of the logs. He went back into town and brought his uncle wood and he was very confused and angry that his nephew ...

Bibliography: The Monkey Unit by R. Wilhelm  sun-wu-kung-handsome-king-of-apes.html There was a Lord of the Heavens and he did not like Sun Wu King, also know as the Monkey King. the Monkey King was liked by everyone and was very powerful, the other monkeys in the land followed his ruling and obeyed what he told them to do. But the Lord of Heavens wanted to be the one that everyone obeyed and followed as their king. So one day he decided that he would punish the Monkey King. He sent down a slayer from the heavens to go down to the land and kill the Monkey King. The slayer went down and went to the Monkey King and told him that he was sent down from the Lord of the Heavens so the Monkey King assumed that this could not be good. The slayer automatically went into attack mode and started trying to kill the Monkey King. But the Monkey King was too powerful and knocked him down immediately. The slayer was nervous but knew that the Lord of Heavens would not be happy if he didn't accompli...

Bibliography: The Monkey Unit by R. Wilhelm  sun-wu-kung-handsome-king-of-apes.html The  Lord of the Heavens sat in his castle and received complaints of the Dragon-King of the Eastern Sea and the ten Princesses of the Dead. The Lord looked through them and made an order to prison the Sun Wu King. But the evening star said that the monkey is very pure. The evening star took Sun Wu King up to the sky to get his punishment instead. The monkey went up to the heavens admitting that he has been wanting to go there and did not know the rules of the land. The monkey then thanked them for letting him into the heavens. He stayed up there for more than a month and his friends has created a banquet for him.  Sun Wu King asked what his title meant and asked if it was higher than everyone else. The stable master said that it is not high at all. He told him he was to attend to the steeds and if they grow fast he will be rewarded. The monkey king was not happy and said that they treated...

 Bibliography: The Monkey Unit by R. Wilhelm  sun-wu-kung-handsome-king-of-apes.html On an island called the Mountain of Flowers and Fruits there is a rock that began the world. One day the rocked bursted and out came an ape. He learned to walk and jump and do all of sort things which scared the lord of the heavens. So he called two gods to see what was happening. The apes once found a waterfall and said that whoever could go down without injury would be the king. So the stone ape went down and found a heavenly cave. They went through and found pots and platters made of stone. Then the stone ape was named handsome King of the Apes and he made other people appointed positions as well.  One day the King of Apes got sad and his friends asked what was wrong. The King of Apes said he was crying because he knew he was going to die one day and then all the other apes started to cry as well. An old ape then told them that some things don't die. Like gods and blessed spirits. So t...

 I am happy with my progress in this class so far. I feel like I have kept up and completed each assignment needed so I am happy with that. I am most proud of all the different types of stories I have written so far. I feel like I have done many different styles of writing, even some out of my comfort zone. I do have a good weekly schedule going. My favorite assignment has been the project and having the freedom to write it about whatever I want. I think it has been very fun to pick a topic that I enjoy and an interested in. I have not don any of the extra credit assignments yet. I think things have gone well in terms of my blog and website, I think they are coming along nicely.  I think in the second half of the semester I will try to do some of the extra credit so I can try to finish in week 13. I also think I will try to get ahead of schedule so that I can finish early as well. I don't think there is anything I want to change with my blog or website I think I just want to k...

 I think the feedback that I am receiving is great. it is really helping me to improve my writing. I think the constructive comments that also leave positives notes with. When they tell me something that I can improve on and also something they enjoyed that I did in my story, I find those to be the most helpful. I find that the strategy I use is the one listed above. I try to leave positive comments as well as things they can improve on and it find it to be the most effective for myself writing that way. I do also get good ideas and inspiration when reading other students stories that they have written. I definitely think am getting to know people from the class. I think the introductions are a highlight of the class. It is very interesting to read what people write about themselves and to also see the pictures that they posted along with the blogpost. I am happy with how my introduction has gone and how people have gotten the chance to know me through it. I think that I can leave ...

 The reading and writing assignments are working very well for me. I enjoy reading the different stories each week and having the ability to pick which story it is I want to read. I am happy with both my blog and project website. I think my blog post is well organized and easy to navigate through. I also like my project website because I think it is eerie and represents the villain and evil aspect of the stories I am writing about. I am satisfied with how my writing is going. I found it very fun writing my first story for my project. I also like writing about the stories because I think its fun how I get to put my own twist on things. I think my biggest accomplishment thus far has been my first story I wrote for my project. I really enjoyed how I wrote it and I found it interesting. My favorite reading so far has been the Brer Rabbit readings. I knew some basic stories about it but I didn't realize how many there were and how many different characters there were. I would say that m...

Brer Rabbit Bibliography: Brer Rabbit by Joel Chandler Harris  brer-rabbit-uncle-remus-initiates.html In this world rabbits are very powerful and strong. They use their legs to help get away from things and they have very very strong and sharp teeth that they can kill almost anything with. And on the other hand foxes are very weak animals they do not have much strength and often find themselves in sticky situations with which they use their brains to get out of. Brer Rabbit and Brer Fox were always at odds with each other.  Brer Rabbit was always trying to eat Brer Fox but he had not had any lucky yet. On day Brer Rabbit said that the neighborhood was tired of them not being friends so he invited him over to have dinner with him. Brer Fox agreed but knew to be careful when going. So the next day Brer Fox get ready to head to dinner. As he was on his way he saw Brer Rabbit created a trap outside his house to try to catch Brer Fox. So when Brer Fox had arrived he knew who to exp...

Brer Rabbit Bibliography: Brer Rabbit by Joel Chandler Harris  brer-rabbit-uncle-remus-initiates.html Brer Fox was sitting at the pond listening to the fish, the frogs, and the bull-frogs. They were all saying very weird things and he did not understand.  He looked into the pond and saw another fox, he went to shake his hand and fell into the pond. He managed to get out but mud turtle almost got him.  Brer Rabbit and Brer Fox were always making fools of each other. One day a bunch of them were clearing ground to plant new things. In the midst Brer Rabbit got hot and made an excuse to go find a cooler place to work. Brer Rabbit came across a well and decided to take a nap there but began to go into the water. But Brer Fox always kept an eye on Brer Rabbit so he followed his and saw that he went into the well so he went over to see what he was doing. Brer Rabbit told Brer Fox that he was getting fish down there and told him to come and help so Brer Fox jumped into the bucke...

Brer Rabbit Bibliography: Brer Rabbit by Joel Chandler Harris  brer-rabbit-uncle-remus-initiates.html Brer Fox was trying to catch Brer Rabbit and Beer Rabbit was doing all he could to try to get away from Brer Fox. Beer Fox told Brer Rabbit that Brer Bear wanted them be friends so Brer Rabbit told Brer Fox to come over the next night for dinner. Miss Rabbit cooked up all of the best food she had for him. Brer Rabbit went out his door to see if Fox was coming but saw the end of his tail hiding. So Brer Fox said that he wasn't feeling well and asked for Brer Rabbit to bring the food to him. Brer Fox was pretending to be sick to catch Brer Rabbit but Brer Rabbit outsmarted him and got away as fast as he could and Brer Fox could not catch him.  Brer Fox was planning on playing a trick on Brer Rabbit. He put a tar-baby in the road to see if Brer Rabbit would stop to see it and a few minutes later there was Brer Rabbit seeing if the tar-baby was okay. He was talking to it but there...