Reading Part A: More English Fairy Tales

The first story is about Newtown, which was infested with rats. They had tried a lot of different ways to get rid of the rats but nothing was working. Then the Pied Piper came to town and played a song to get rid of all the rats. When the Mayor didn't pay the Pied Piper the Piper took the children of the town away from the town and they never came back.

The second story was about a girl who was to be hung if she lost a golden ball. She ended up loosing the golden ball, and her sweetheart came to the rescue maiming giants and retieving the golden ball so she was not hung.

The third story was about a girl who pretty much had no family and only two friends. One of her friends talked her into going to see the king and see agreed. Along the way a gentleman asked the way to the palace and joined them in their journey, where he asked the girl to be his bride. When the clock struck twelve the girl entered and the prince announced her as his soon to be wife.

The forth story is about Johnny Gloke. He killed 50 flies with one swat. He killed two giants by turing themselves on each other. He also scared off a band of rebels.

The fifth story is about Scrapefoot which is pretty much the story of Goldie Locks and the three bears.

The sixth story is about is about a witch and two little girls. The first girl was helpful to everything and everyone who came up along her path and the second sister wasn't. The first sister ended up being protected and rich while the second sister was beat and sent home with no money.

The last story is about a man who had spared a tree for a fairy who promised him three wishes. When he got home he told his wife and asked for dinner and it wasn't close to being done and he wished that there would be pudding infront of him and it appeared. He spent all three of his wishes on pudding.



Bibliography:
English Fairy Tales
The Pied Piper
The Golden Ball
Tattercoats
Johnny Gloke
Scrapefoot
The Old Witch
The Three Wishes

What happened to the three wishes?

Link: Laura Gibbs Blog

Famous Last Words, Internship Opportunity

Well this week started off pretty well. Back in September I attended the Engineering Career Fair here at OU. Attending this career fair gave me a chance to network with some well known companies in the engineering field. During the 4 hour event I was able to talk to twelve different companies that have opportunities for my major. During this time I went looking for a company that I would like to intern for this summer. This was the first time I had ever been to a career fair, I was really nervous. I started off at a company that I had talked to at lunch before so that it was a familiar territory. While I was there I talked to a company I was really interested in working for, PEC, which is a Professional Engineering Consultant company located in Oklahoma City. After talking to the representative about why I would like to work for PEC and opportunities PEC held for me I was super excited to get to talk to them in the future. Well fast forward to the end of last week, I was excited to find an email in my inbox from a manager at PEC! I ended up talking to the manager back and forth where at the end I accepted an offer to work with PEC in their Oklahoma City branch. I was thrilled to find out that they wanted me to intern for their company next summer. I can't wait to see what opportunities this internship will hold for me next summer. I look forward to having the skills that I have been learning for four years put to use, where I can also learn more about the way the engineering business world works. That is how my week turned out and it ended on such a happy note!

This world is full of opportunities.

by:Wikipedia

Learning Challenge the Pomodoro technique

For my challenge this week I chose the Pomodoro technique. I always have a hard time deciding when to take a break. I really enjoyed this challenge and think I will stick with it. It is really easy and it also keeps you from getting burnt out on working.

 Pomodoro Technique
By: Laura Gibbs Blog

Reading Notes, Saints and Animals unit, Extra Reading

The fist story is about a school full of boys. One of the smaller boys is the smartest of his class and never does anything wrong. One day the other boys decide to come up with plans to get the boy introuble. After many attempts and failures, the boys decided to kill the fathers prised robin and blame it on the smart boy. This plan ends up backfiring on them and they were nice to the other boy for the rest of time.

The next story was about a man who cared about all living things. He lived in the forest where he befrineded all of the animals that where there. One day soliders came and took some of the animals who didn't make a sound because their master was praying. They found out he was a christian and went back and captured him. They tried to drownd him but he could walk on water. Then they ended up beheading him.

The next story was about a man who was also friends with the animals. He made friends with some swans which was hard to do if they didn't know you. Then a guy that lived on the island controlled a lot of the grain that was produced. During a time of famish no one had food except the guy who had grain. Comgall went to him with a silver goblet and asked if he could get some grain and the man said no. Comgall told the mice what happened and they went to the place where the grain was stored and ate evey last piece.

The last story was about a monk who went to save a calf from a wolf. The wolf got to the calf before the monk so the monk told the mother cow and the wolf that the wolf would be the cows son and he should be kind and gentle to his new mother. Another thing that this monk did was save a boy's life by provideing apples and salad when they were out of season. The last thing that happened was a rich man was trying to destroy his monestary. He appealed to the king for protection, but when he went to visit the king he wasn't allowed in because of his clothing. After his acts the king sent him home with gifts and protection.

Saint Francis

Link: Laura Gibbs Blog

Bibliography:
Saints and Animals unit
by: Abbie Farwell Brown
Saint Kentigern and the Robin
Saint Blaise and His Beasts
Saint Comgall and the Mice
The Wonders of Saint Berach

Reading Notes: Part B, Blackfoot Stories

At one point in time women did not know that men existed and men did not know that women existed. There was an old man who came across the group of men and stayed with them for a while. Then he saw the women and went to talk to them. The women where scared of the man and ran away. The Old man then went to the woman chief and she sent a message through him to the chief of the men. The men responded to getting married and they all came to the women's camp. The woman chief went first to choose a husband, she chose the man that the old man described to her. He said no because she was covered in blood and he didn't recognize her. She went back down and changed and told everyone else that they could not choose that man because of what he did. He was the only man that was not chosen and this made him angry. He went and began to break down the piskun and the woman chief turned him into a pine tree.

The next story was about how the bobcat came to get its face and the birch tree came to get it's marks. The old man had roasted prairie dogs and ate until he fell asleep. When he fell asleep a bobcat came and ate the rest of the prairie dogs. When the man's nose finally woke him up he told him what happened and  the man ripped the tail off the bob cat and smashed his face flat. The man was aggravated with his nose and burnt his nose, the birch tree saved his life so he made it pretty by gashing the bark with his knife.

The next story is about the horned grebe. The Old Man was walking near the river and the ducks asked him to play them some music, while he played a song he told them they had to keep their eyes closed or they would turn red. While he was playing the song he was killing ducks, one of the ducklings opened his eyes and saw what was happening and told everyone to run and that is how he became the horned grebe.

The next story is about a man who found a boy who was strong that he thought he would give his daughters hand's of marriage to. The father gave the boy all of his possessions except a lodge for him and his wife. The boy was helpful for a while but then became stingy. One day while they were hunting the boy missed the buffalo and only wounded it. The old man saw a clot and put it in his quiver, he took it home to cook and the clot turned into a baby boy. After four day the boy turned into a man. The man helped the father kill a buffalo, when the son-in-law found out that the old man had went to hunt he was angry. When he approached the old man the boy hid behind the dead buffalo but after a while came out and killed the son-in-law. He also punished the daughters, the youngest however received less because she helped her parents out. After that he went from village to village helping people who were being taken advantage of, he killed those who had done wrong to those people. He ended up destroying seven things that were bad.


Bibliography:
Blackfoot Stories
By: George Bird Grinnell
The Smart Woman Chief
Bobcat and Birch Tree
The Red-Eyed Duck
Kut-O-Yis, The Blood Boy

Blackfoot Warrior

By K. Bodmer

Laura Gibbs Blog

Growth Mindset Memes

For this weeks growth mindset challenge I made my own meme. I am trying to grow in a social aspect of life. That is why I made this meme. When in classes I don't like asking for help because I am not a very social butterfly. One of my friends told me it just takes stepping outside of your comfort zone to grow in that area. This is my goal to work on for the rest of the semester that will help me grow academically but also give me a skill I can use for the rest of my life.

Link Growth Meme
by Ashley Hannah

Reading Notes: Blackfoot Stories Unit, Part A

In the first story the antelope and the dear were playing a game of I am better than you. In this game they bet their galls on who could run the fastest. The antelope won the deer's gall. The deer was a sore loser and said it was because they were on the antelope's home turff. The antelope agreed to race again betting their Dewclaws. The deer won the race in the timber. Since this time the deer has had no gall and the antelope has had no dewclaws.  The second story is about a man who had two wives. They were not good house wives and the man often went hungry. The man moved the wives away from others to try to tech them how to become good wives. The man kept watch for buffalo and enemies. The women didn't like living in the middle of no where and plot to kill their husband so they could move back home. The wives dug a hole in the place that their husband use to sit. Once he fell in the hole they backed up their lodging and headed back to town. The wives told the people of the town that their husband had went out to hunt and had been gone for 5 day. A wolf came across the man who was hurt at the bottome of the hole. The big wolves  took him in as their brother. The wolves turned him into a man wolf. He helped the wolves get meat and the people that the buffalo belonged to were wondering why their traps were not working. Then one night they figured out that it was a wolf man and they set a trap for him. The people realized that he was the man that went missing and that his wives needed to be punished. The next story is about the days when people could find no game on the praries. They found the man who had kept the game off the praries. They released them and drove them towards their camp. A raven detourd the animals before they made it to the plains. Then Napi decided to get revenge and pretended to be a dead beaver so he could catch the raven. He punished the raven and then set him free. The next story is about a man and a son who are mouring the loss of their wife and mother. The man goes on a journey to find his wife and bring her back with him. In his dreams he is given the directions to find his wife. To get his wife back he had to follow some strict instructions. If he didn't follow them he would lose his wife, or he would die. This is the legend of how the worm-pipe  came to happen. The man broke one of the rules to having his wife back and she dissappeared and was never seen again.  The next story was about when people were starving. A man caught a rabbit and sent his wife for water to skin it. On her way to the water she heard a beautiful song and stone to which she was given directions to bring back buffalo. They followed the directions and the buffalo returned. The next story is about how thunder came about. Once a man and a woman were struck by thunder. The man lived, but thunder took away his wife. The man went looking for his wife. He went through a long journey to find his wife. The ravens helped him recover his wife by telling him what to do. Once the thunder realized that he was more powerful than him he gave him the pipe to use and pray for rain for the berries. This is how the thunder pipe came to happen.  The next story is about an old woman who killed Lone Feather. The woman and her two bears feasted on the man's body. The Cold Maker got angry and went to Broken Bow to have him help kill the bears and get back at the woman. The Cold Maker sent smoke from Broken Bows pipe to tel the other smoke not to come any lower. The woman was frustrated and came inside to see what was going wrong with her plan when Cold Maker and Broken Bow trapped her inside. Coldmaker sent a storm that would drownd the woman and the bears. The next story is about an old man who who gave a rock his coat because he took a nap on the rock. He thanked the rock by giving him his coat. It started raining and the man sent the coyote to borrow the coat. The rock denied this and the man went and took the coat saying he wouldn't give it back. The rock came to crush the man. He chased the man and many animals tried to save the man from the rock that were killed. Finally the bullbat saved the man. He then went to a nest of nighthawks and pinched their bills to make them look prettier. The next story was about how rocks and bullberries cam to be the way they are today. There was an old man who was being chased by a bear because he was calling it names. They ran around in circles around a rock for a long period of time and this is how rocks became the way they are. The man saw bullberries in the water and almost drowned trying to get to them. He then realized that they were on the shore and beat the bush becuase he almost drowned for them. The last story is about how the sun caught meet. An old man loved the leggings that the Sun used for hunting and tried to steal them multiple times. Each time however he always woke up in the Sun's lodge. The Sun gave him the leggings and the man set off. When the man tried to use the leggings they ended up catching on fire and burning to pieces.

Bibliography:
Blackfoot Stories Unit
By: George Bird Grinnell
Two Fast Runners
The Wolf Man
The Dog And The Root Digger
The Camp Of The Ghosts
The Buffalo Stone
How The Thunder Pipe Came
Cold Maker's Medicine
The Rolling Rock
Bear and Bullberries
The Theft from the Sun

Blackfoot Indian Stories

Link: Laura Gibbs Blog

Tech Tip: Blog Profile

For the tech tip this week I decided to change my blogger profile. I removed my name from my posts, because I think that since it is my blog there is no reason to have my name on each post as well. Since the beginning of class my profile has always been included on my blog, so I decided to just leave it the way that it is. I have thought a little about my online identity. I don't post a lot of things on my online profiles because I simply don't have time to keep up with all of them. I also want to make sure everything I do post will not have an effect on my job in the future. I think your online identity is key to your future because everyone can see that side of your personality.

Growth Mindset of connections

By: Laura Gibbs Blog

How all this new information is making me feel.

I was looking through the gallery of Growth mindset memes and came across this one. I really thought this was fitting to my week. I have been working on a lot of work this week and I feel like my brain is piecing all of the work in my classes together to form the connections between each subject. It is also making connections between internship offers that I have been receiving. That is why I picked this meme for my growth mindset challange. 

Story: The disappearance of Mike and Molly.

One-day Mike and Molly decided they wanted to go on a hike. They set off on a trail up the side of the mountain towards the trails they had hiked many times. They found the trail and set off towards the top of the mountain. The morning sun was rising and they were excited to see what the day held for them. After a couple hours of climbing towards the top Molly was getting tired.

Molly asked Mike, “Can we take a break? This hike is really making me tired and the heat is not helping.”

Mike told her, “Try to get to the next break in the steep side of the mountain and we will take a break.”

So they continued to climb, after another twenty minutes of climbing up the mountain Molly turned around and asked Mike, “Can we please stop now? I don’t think I can walk much further without a break. This heat is ridiculous. I have an umbrella and we can sit in the shade.”

Mike thought about it for a minute and said, “I guess we can take a break, but let’s make it a short one. I want to get to the top and back down before sunset.”

They sat down and took a break. Before they knew it they were both asleep under the umbrella. Hours later Mike woke up, he suddenly realized that he had fallen asleep. He looked at his watch and saw that it was almost 6:00 in the evening. He shook Molly till she woke up. They both couldn’t believe that they had fallen asleep for that long.

They gathered their things and started heading down the mountain. It was dark before they reached the bottom of the mountain. Once it got dark they were having a hard time following the trail that they had taken. Eventually they had to stop because they were lost and just walking in circles.

When the kids hadn’t shown up for dinner their mother got worried. After it got dark she went to her husband and he was rounding up dogs to go look for their kids. They sent their first dog who had been with them many years out first. After an hour or so the dog came back but the kids weren’t with him.

Next they sent out their hunting dog, he had been with the family for a while. The hunting dog went looking, he spent hours looking. He climbed back and forth and ended up getting himself lost on the mountain. After hours of the hunting not returning they didn’t know what to do. The only dog they had left was a puppy.

The husband told his wife, “Well I guess it never hurts, I am going to let Pup out and see if he can find the kids.”

The wife told the husband, “Pup is not old enough to go out on his own yet! We can’t do that!”

The husband said, “I have no other choice, our kids aren’t home, my hunting dog is lost, and it’s late in the night.”

The husband release Pup and Pup took off into the mountain.

After sitting there stranded for so long lost and confused Mike and Molly heard the bushes rustling. They were scared to see what was going to come and attack them, they closed their eyes and screamed. Suddenly Mike was attacked and on the ground with Pup licking his face. They were so happy to see Pup.



Pup lead Mike and Molly down the mountain where he ran into the hunting dog. Shortly after that they were back at the house where the parents were so happy to see their kids.

Authors Note:

I used the story of The Little Boy and Girl in the Clouds. Which is an Indian fairy tale about a little boy and girl who fall asleep on a rock, While they are asleep the rock grows. Their parents go looking for them but can't find them. Finally one of the animals tracks the kids to the rocks. All the animals try to reach the top to save the kids, but it is the smallest animal who ends up saving the kids. 

Bibliography:

The Little Boy and Girl in the Clouds

By: W.T. Larned

Pup saves the day

By: Wikipedia

Reading Notes Part B: American Indian Fairy Tales Unit

The first story was about a boy who was a dwarf. The girl gathered all the food. The girl made the boy a bow. The boy killed 10 snowbirds to make him a coat. His coat shrunk in the heat of the Sun and he threatened the sun. He wanted a strong rope. He turned her hair into metal. Ken-eu woke the doormouse. The doormouse freed the sun. The next story was about O-jeeg. His son wondered if he could somehow bring the summer down from the sky. He talked to a squriel, who told him, "If someone could bring the summer down from the sky, it would be a true blessing." His father told him it was a dangerous task. They asked the spirit for sucess in their trip. They broke the sky and O-jeep was caught by the sky dwellers. The plow is O-jeeg in the sky. The last story was about Neen-i-zu, who was against hunting. She declared that there would be no suffering in the forest and no life could be taken in the forest. Her mother wanted her to marry a hunter who could take care of her. She didn't want to marry a hunter. She ended up leaving with the Evergreen Fairy on the day of her wedding and no one saw her again.

Bibliography:
By: W.T. Larned
The American Indian Fairy Tales unit
The Boy Who Snared the Sun
How the Summer Came
The Fairy Brid

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The American Indian Fairy Tales

Laura Gibbs Blog

Reading Notes Part A: American Indian Fairy Tales

The first story talked about a main character named Iagoo. Iagoo told the children stories. He went on to tell a story about the North Wind. The next story was about fishermen who were scared of Ka-bib-on-okka. Shin-ge-bis was the only one who was not scared of the north wind. He challenged the north wind, and ended up beating the north wind. The next story was about a little boy and a little girl. They fell asleep on a rock near a stream. While they were sleeping the rock grew. It grew so tall that you couldn't see the top from the ground. When their parents came looking for them they couldn't find them.  The coyote followed their trail to the rock. When they found out that they were on top of the mountain all the animals tried to rescue the kids. None of the animals could succeed. Finally a measuring worm made his way to the top of the rock.  He guided the children down the mountain. Osseo and Oweenee were taken away from the Earth and in the end were returned to the Earth.

Bibliography:
American Indian Fairy Tales
By: W.T. Larned
Iagoo, the Story-Teller
Shin-ge-bis Fools the North Wind
The Little Boy and Girl in the Clouds
The Child of the Evening Star

Bison By L.A. Fuertes

Link: Laura Gibbs Blog

Week 8 Growth Mindset

After reading through this lesson I found out that I have some areas that I am strong in and some areas that I am weak in. First I will talk about the areas I think I am strong in. One thing I believe I have a lot of is finding motivation myself. I don't like having to look to other praise for rewards. I think you have to be self motivated enough to do your own work. I spend a lot of my time worrying about my grades instead of worrying about learning the material. I try to always push myself to go further but sometimes it doesn't always work. In this class I try to stay inside my comfort zone.  I can work on this by the way I write my stories for this class. I am already mentally preparing myself for things to change. In life I know there are a lot of changes that are fixing to happen and I am already working on mentally preparing myself for those changes. I am taking a long term view in life by trying to figure out where I want to be in 5 years. I am doing this by finding internships for next summer hat I believe will get me ready for the next few years. I really need to start asking more questions through out all my classes. I really need to focus on how to improve my skills and this will definitely help. I think I should work on my questioning skills this next part of the semester. I also need to start coming out of my comfort zone in my classes.

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I know I can improve.

By:Laura Gibbs Blog

Week 8 Reflections

1) Readings

I think that I have been making great choices for my reading selections. My favorite stories that I have read are the Brer Rabbit units. I am not constant on my reading schedule as my schedule changes every week. There has been one week that I made no reading but I made up for it with the extra reading options! I think that as my notes have progressed it is easier for me to come up with stories to write about each week. I do think about story options while I am reading each story. It is kind of hard to wonder and focus at the same time though!

2) Writing

I am happy with some of the stories that I have wrote so far. They all could use a lot of work. I am not a very creative person. I also am horrible when it comes to writing papers. I usually have to have my friend proof read emails before I send them because I can read them out loud to myself and they will make sense but when she reads them they will not make sense. When I have a question I usually google the question or ask my friend for help. I really need to work on my grammar skills. I would also like to try different storytelling options. I think I need to use google translate to read my stories back to me more often.



3)Connecting



The thing I like the most about looking at other people stories is the different writing styles. I don’t feel like I am creative enough to try different writing styles. I think I have been doing okay when giving feedback. Like I said I am not a grammatical person so it is hard when it comes to that type of feedback.

Writing is a journey

Photo by: Laura Gibbs Blog

Reading Note Extra Credit: Brer Rabbit unit

The first story was about how the legends of the words that the frogs used to communicate has died. No one knows how to write the words down. There are some people, however, who can get close to saying the words. The second story was about Brer Rabbit trying to get away from work. He thought he would use a well to hide in so he couldn’t be found. Brer Fox however followed him and saw that he was in the well. Brer Rabbit tricked Brer Fox into coming down the well which let Brer Rabbit out. The Third story was about Brer Buzzard and how he tricked Brer Rabbit into going to a gold mine with him after their crops had failed which ended in Brer Rabbit coming home with a limp. In the next story Brer Fox goes to Brer Rabbits home and tries to find an excuse to hurt the baby Rabbits. A bird comes to the rescue of the baby rabbits and tells them how to get the chores that Brer Fox has given them done. In the next story Brer Fox plants, a garden. Brer Rabbit comes and steals from the garden and Brer Fox decided that he knows how to catch Brer Rabbit and sets a trap. Brer Rabbit gets caught but trick Brer Bear into letting him down and taking his place and his punishment. The next story was about Mr. and Mrs. Terrapin. The animals went to help make candy and Mrs. Terrapin put them all to work. Then they went to help Mr. Terrapin and they were struggling with pulling the rope. The next story about when the animals had a town meeting and they all came together. Once the meeting had started the animals sit. They were crushing the crawfishes and killing them. This made the craw-fish mad. They dug into the ground until the made a geyser of water that flooded the place they were killing all of the animals. The last story was just a bunch of proverbs from that time period.

When Brer Rabbit Tricked Brer Bear into taking his punishment.

Laura Gibbs Blog

Bibliography

Brer Rabbit Unit

By Joel Chandler Harris

Mr.Fox and the Deceitful Frogs

Old Mr.Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman

Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again

A Story about the Little Rabbits

Mr.Rabbit and Mr.Bear

Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength

The Story of the Deluge

Plantation Proverbs

The Story of Brer Rabbit's House

One afternoon during the middle of summer, Jenny was lying on the floor waiting for 1:00 to roll around. When the clock struck 1:00, she turned on the radio and tuned it to her favorite station. Jenny loved 94.6 The Kids Channel. Every day at 1:00 they would take a break and have story time. That day when she tuned into the station, it was a story of How Brer Rabbit Got a House.

The radio announcer said, “Well, kids, it is 1:00. That means it is time for a story. Today’s story is about a trickster named Brer Rabbit. We will hear about one of his tricks that he pulled on Brer Bear today. So let’s get this story started.”

The radio announcer turned over the mic to the storyteller Mrs. Hodges. Mrs. Hodges began reading the story with voices for every character saying, “Once upon a time the animals of the woods all came together for a town meeting. At this town meeting Brer Possum came up with an idea.

Brer Possum said, “I think we should build a house to keep out all the bugs.”

Brer Wolf asked,” Who would live in this house?”

Brer Possum answered,” Anyone can live in this house. We can build it large enough that everyone can fit! We can even build a room where animals can go when they are sick.”

With this, the animals all agreed to building the house. The next day, they started building the house. All the animals were working hard except for one, Brer Rabbit.

Brer Possum asked Brer Rabbit,” Hey, Brer Rabbit, can you climb up the scaffold and help Brer Wolf with this wall he is working on?”

Brer Rabbit climbed up the scaffold. When he reached the top of the scaffold he shouted at the top of his lungs, “Oh, I feel so dizzy up here, I don’t think I can stay up here very long.”

Brer Wolf (not wanting anyone to get hurt) told Brer Rabbit, “Climb back down and go help Brer Fox with his work.”

Brer Rabbit climbed back down the scaffold, but instead of helping Brer Fox he started telling the other animals what to do.

Brer Rabbit went on to tell Brer Coon, “Climb up the scaffold and help Brer Wolf with the wall. Brer Possum, why don’t you go help Brer Fox? He looks like he could use some help.”

It didn’t take the animals very long to finish building the house. Brer Rabbit was giving orders left and right. After the house was finished it looked amazing! Brer Rabbit decided that he wanted the room on the second floor to himself. He then came up with an idea of how to trick the animals into leaving the house.

A few days later after they finished the house, all the animals came home and Brer Rabbit told the others, “I don’t feel so well. I am going to go upstairs and sit for a little while.”

Brer Bear answered for the group, “Well, we will stay downstairs. We will also try to stay quiet.”

Brer Rabbit went upstairs. Instead of sitting down he crawled under his bed and got out a double-barreled shotgun, a tub of water, and a cannon. After being upstairs for a few minutes he loaded the double-barreled shotgun, and fired off two rounds. This made the other animals jump. They weren’t sure what was going on.

Then, Brer Rabbit called down the stairs, “I need to spit! Where do I spit?”

Brer Bear replied, “Wherever you can make it to!”

Brer Rabbit then ran towards the door near the stairs. He used the tub to throw water down the stairs. The water soaked Brer Possum and Brer Bears daughters'. This made them worry.

Brer Rabbit called down the stairs one more time, “I need to sneeze!”

Brer Possum said, “Well then, sneeze Brer Rabbit!”

Brer Rabbit went to the cannon and fired off a round. This scared all the animals so much that they took off for the hills! The animals never came back to that house. That is how Brer Rabbit got his house.

Now, boys and girls, that is all the time we have for story time today. Tune in tomorrow to hear another trick of Brer Rabbit's!”

Jenny got up off the floor turned the radio off and lay down, again waiting for the story that she would hear tomorrow.

Bibliography:

More Brer Rabbit: How Brer Rabbit Got a House

Joel Chandler Harris

The plan's for the animals house.

Laura Gibbs Blog

Author's note:

  The stories of Brer Rabbit came from the 19th century. It is told in a language that uses slang that was well known in the African-American culture. The story that I read is a version of the story that is being retold as a verse. The original story kept tradition with the dialog from the country. I basically took the original story and changed the way that it was told. I added more dialog to make the story interesting along with the way that the story was told. My version of the story takes away from some of the traditional dialog. I struggled reading the dialog so I wanted to change it to be easier for little kids to read. I liked the way the original story went along. I couldn't think of anything creative to change this story. When adding dialog to the story, I was able to be a little creative with the events that were happening in the story. I tried to think up a way to change how Brer Rabbit got his house but I couldn't think of anything that would be different than the way the story ended. I also added the character of Jenny who made a short appearance in this story. This came from the inspiration of the stories being told by Uncle Remus to a little boy. 

Reading Part B: More Brer Rabbit Unit

Brer Rabbit got Miss Bob White to get off her nest to go wash her dress while Brer Rabbit sat on her eggs. Brer Rabbit took the eggs and told Miss Bob White that the eggs walked off. Brer Rabbit rode Brer Fox to get a Hoss Brer Rabbit and Brer Buzzard are trying to catch Brer Fox while he is in a hole. After Brer Fox spent all day hunting Brer Rabbit tricks Brer Fox out of all the game he caught. If Brer Rabbit ever got tricked he sat down and planned out how to get even like he did with Jack Sparrer. Brer Fox tricked the sparrer into believing that he was deaf.  Brer Rabbit tricks Brer Wolf into believing that there was a cow in the ground. Brer Bear tried to kill Brer Bull-frog and ended up missing because Brer Bull-frog hopped away before Brer Bear could pick up and drop his axe. Brer Rabbit lost his tail in the creek which is the reason why there are bobtail rabbits around today. Brer Possum lost his tail fur when he was trying to escape Brer Bear in the simmon's patch. Brer Bear gets his head stuck in a tree while trying to get honey because Brer Rabbit tricked him into putting his head in the tree. Brer Rabbit talked Brer Fox into taking his place after he had been caught by the farmer eating his vegetables. The farmer still went after Brer Fox because Brer Fox had been after his goose. Brer Rabbit came back and let Brer Fox go after he had been been once.

Brer Rabbit riding Brer Fox to get a Hoss

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Bibliography

More Brer Rabbit Unit

by: Joel Chandler Harris

Brer Rabbit and the Partridge Nest

Mr. Fox Is Again Victimized

Mr. Fox Goes A-Hunting

The Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow

how Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat

Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-Frog

How Mr. Rabbit Lost his Fine Bushy Tail

Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair on His Tail

The End of Mr. Bear

Mr. Fox Gets into Serious Business

Reading Notes Part A More Brer Rabbit

Brer Rabbit used the other characters to make the farmers dogs lose track of Brer Rabbit. He told them that there was a barbecue so they would head off in the direction of the dogs that were trying to track Brer Rabbit down. The fact of the matter is there was no barbecue. Brer Bear scared the dogs away. The creatures however got hurt after their meeting with the dogs. They planned to hurt Brer Rabbit.  Brer Polecat like Brer Rabbit ends up kicking Brer Bear and family out of his house by the smell of his breathe. Then Brer Rabbit went to the rainmaker and set up a race between Brer Rain and Brer Dust which ends up making all of the creatures who helped him with the race sick. In this next section Brer Rabbit tried to ride a buzzard  and when he was finished with his ride he rode brother buzzard into the ground.  When the creatures are looking for the gold mine Brer Wolf tries to trap Brer Rabbit by saying that he has found the gold. Brer Rabbit doesn't fall for Brer Wolfs trick. Brer Rabbit tries to make Brer Fox Ride a Horse and ends up with Brer Fox falling off the tail of the horse ripping his shirt. Brer Rabbit is a real trickster who gets his kicks from hurting the other animals. Like making telling the animals that the moon is in the pond and they try to help the moon escape the ice and end up in the cold ice water. Brer Rabbit tricks the lion into getting in the barrel and that makes him lose all of his wool.

Brer Rabbit using the others to get away from the dogs.

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Bibliography:

More Brer Rabbit unit

by: Joel Chandler Harris 

The Creeturs Go to the Barbecue

Brer Rabbit's Frolic

Bother Bear's Big House

Brer Rabbit Treats the Creeturs to a Race

Brer Rabbit's Flying Trip

Brer Rabbit and the Gold Mine

Brer Rabbit Gets Brer Fox a Hoss

Brer Rabbit Finds the Moon in the Mill Pond

How Mr.Lion Lost His Wool

How Brer Rabbit Got a House

Reading notes, Extra Credit Reading, Brer Rabbit Part A

Throughout the stories of Brer Rabbit and Mr.Fox they all have the same main point. Mr. Fox is wanting to eat Brer Rabbit while Brer Rabbit out smarts Mr.Fox every time.  In some of the stories Mr. Fox has his cousin Mr.Wolf to help and try to outsmart Brer Rabbit. Each story however ends in the same way. Brer Rabbit out smarts Mr. Fox and Mr. Wolf and in the story of Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure it ends up in Brer Rabbit eating Mr. Wolf. I really enjoyed this lesson and look forward to reading more stories of Brer Rabbit.

Brer Rabbit and Mr.Fox

by A.B. Frost

Laura Gibbs Blog

Bibliography
Brer Rabbit by: Joel Chandler Harris
Brer Rabbit and the Calamus Root
The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story
Why Mr.Possum Loves Peace
How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp for Mr. Fox
Mr. Fox is "Outdone" by Mr. Buzzard
Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure
Mr.Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin
The Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf