Crystel's Myth-Folklore Blog

I started off with Thanksgiving in honor of the holiday quickly approaching next week. I learned that some believe that the first day of thanks didn't occur in what is now the United States, but actually in Canada. In the past each state had a different date of celebrating Thanksgiving until October 31st, 1939 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed to have it always on the second to last Thursday in November for business reasons. Franklin made a huge impact on the economy while in office including his New Deal . This was a series of programs and financial reforms to help the people in response to the Great Depression . Most think of pictures of the Dust Bowl as the Great Depression, however that was just a product of the Great Depression. The GD was the first time the United States went into an economic recession. It caused major companies to close, unemployment, and poverty. Al Capone's Soup Kitchen During the Great Depression, 1931

Dog & Cat Deliberate Attention Meme One thing the video confirmed that I already knew before was how important sleep is and how much someone my age should be getting. (7-8hrs) One thing I learned was the condition of Fatal Familial Insomnia. This is a condition where your body won't let you fall asleep, which could long term lead to dementia or death. After watching the video, I want to try to get the recommended amount of sleep per night that I should. I am curious to see how it will effect my attention, learning experiences, and health. I will begin to plan out what time I need to go to bed by and actually act upon it.

The two quotes I chose for this Growth Mindset post are both things that I struggle with reminding myself. You Will Be Okay Cat Meme The first quote that caught my eye was the personal mantra of one student being, "You will be okay". As the semester goes and exams come up, dealing with working and making sure I have time to do my assignments is a daily struggle. Sometimes it becomes to big of a struggle to where I need to call my mom and talk out strategy of what to do next. At the end of the phone call she says "You will be okay" and just hearing that resonates with me and helps me get through it. R.E.L.A.X The second one being R.E.L.A.X. This means Rest and Energize yourself to Live life And Xplore. This really does hold an important message because I often pile so much onto my plate that I end up not taking care of my own self. I have been trying to tell myself that when I feel the tension but it still is so hard to allow myself to take a moment ...

Besides the fact of needing extra credit points, I chose to do my tech tip over Canvas because of reading about Laura's (our professor) experience with going to a Canvas workshop. I have noticed that I personally don't use the Dashboard To-Do sidebar that often. I usually go into the course and reference the sidebar there. After learning about the Dashboard I configured it to "list view" to try out for a while. I like how it shows me a day by day on when/what things are do. In general, I do like the Canvas Dashboard. It was definitely a change from the old system but glad to have it and its versatility.

Romeo Professing Love to Juliet After reading this version of Romeo and Juliet, it helped with figuring out how I wanted and needed to shorten the original story. In this story by Lamb, he takes caution to give special attention to the more important parts of the story and detailing them as such the audience still understands what is happening without having to read the original version by Shakespeare. I feel that is my biggest takeaway from reading this prose by Lamb. Also it acted as being very helpful in review of Romeo and Juliet. Bibliography: Tales from Shakespeare , Charles Lamb, 1878

Grammatical Lessons Over  Prescriptivists and Descriptivists by Andreea S. Calude For this week I decided to do a Story Lab over language, grammar, and punctuation. This decision came to me after having completed and receiving revisions on my first story. One of my biggest corrections needed was that of grammar. How to word things and realizing I was switching tenses, were both problems I needed to correct. After watching the TEDEd videos, I have realized that language is continuously revolving and how complex grammar actually is! Seeing how languages have formed and stemmed essentially from each other is amazing. One thing about grammar that really caught me was realizing that the last time when I was taught grammar was years ago in middle school. Therefore it makes sense why I missed such things and also why colleges encourage the taking of an intensive writing course. The video I posted above, and ones similar, will definitely be one I reference when writing my next story...

Wikipedia:  This Is the House That Jack Built My two focuses of this reading note is on that of beautiful sentences and character charting. Since theses stories are nursery rhymes, the way they are told must be in an uplifting way even though what is being said may not be exactly joyous. Such as in the rhyme of Jack and Jill, "Jack and Jill went up the hill To fetch a pail of water; Jack fell down and broke his crown, And Jill came tumbling after." As kids, singing this we laughed and joked about such a rhyme, but when you actually think about it, it is pretty sad cause Jack actually dies. Also through character charting we are given very important characteristics in short rhymes about a character. Being able to do such in my own storybook would be essential. Bibliography: Nursery Rhyme Book   edited by Andrew Lang and illustrated by L. Leslie Brooke (1897)