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