Mythology and Folklore 101

Learning Challenge: Happiness Happiness is something that we as strive for, but are not always successful at. Obviously, we are not going to always be happy, but this article gives some very simple tips that could easily make a bad day better. I think the two that stood out to me were help other people and go outside more.  Personally, for me on days where I am not in the best mood all i want to do is stay in my room with the lights off all day which does not normally end up improving my mood. Maybe, if I was to go on a walk or just run errands I would get into a better mood.  the other tip which is helping people is my favorite. I think if we all made it a goal to help one person a day we all feel better about ourselves. Not only is someone else benefiting from this but our happiness can be improved as well. Happiness is something we all need could improve on just by smiling, laughing, and spending time with people we love. If we did not focus so much on the ...

Growth Mindset: Explore Growth Mindset beyond School I think for me my work ethic towards my job can be transferred into my schoolwork. I have had a job since I was 15 and I pride myself on the fact that I understand what it means to "work". Having a good work ethic is important in school as well because as a student you have to be self-motivated to succeed without someone telling you to do so. If you do not have the ability to do this then you may find yourself turning in assignments late or not starting to study early enough for a test. For me, this means making sure I allocate enough time for all my schoolwork before I can go and do fun things. After all my parents are paying for me to come to school nit party all the time. In addition I think that I enjoy getting good grades in school just like I enjoy receiving a good pay check from work. I am motivated by the fact that I could get good grades to make both myself and my ...

Progress Update After looking at the progress chart it looks like I am on track to have an A in the class at the start of this week I had 212 points and you had to have 205 in order to have an A thus far in the semester. I like that I schedule that I am on,  but now that the storybook project is starting to take more time I need to allocate more time to the project above anything else. I think for me I just need to make sure that I do not procrastinate assignments as it is starting to reach the end of the semester. I like that you can do extra credit assignments so that you can get to 410 points faster, but I did not really start doing them until recently so for the rest of the semester I am going to make sure I am completing at least 2-3 assignments.  Pushing Through the End of the Semester

Comments and Feedback  I think the comments and feedback are an awesome component to this class. Since, it is an online class you will typically not know anyone but through the comments and feedback we are able to get to know everyone. I have also found there to be a few people I know in the class just from having to comment and random peoples posts. I think sometimes using the randomized link for the stories and introduction sometimes will  give you the same people, so maybe my feedback would be to find a better way for people to choose which blogs they comment on so there is a more even number of  comments on everyone's wall.  For the rest  of the class I think I am going to really focus on what other people are doing in their storybooks so that I can improve mine. I like seeing everyone different strengths from reading their posts and using that to improve my stories. Overall, everyone leaves very throu...

This semester I have really enjoyed writing blog posts based off of stories we read. I think it is interesting to read stories that were from different cultures and  time periods. I have found that I like to try and base my new stories off of movies. I find for me that it boost more creativity when I retell the story. My favorite had to have been the stories from Asia and Africa. I am in another class called African Repercussions, so it was interesting to compare the folklore stories to things I have learned in another class. So far with the storybook I have enjoyed being creative, which is something that I do not typically get to do in my other classes. I have found that I need to review grammar rules a bit more. I have dyslexia so I have always struggled with grammar. I like though that I am able to be creative through my stories, I just need to focus more on adding detail so that the reader feels as if they are there. Overall, I have really e...