Extra Reading Diary: Tejas Legends

"When the Storm God Rides":
The storm go d became angry when a foreign tribe came and killed the birds. He created great storms that picked up sediment and dropped it into the gulf and created islands for the birds to hide on.

"How the North Wind Lost His Hair":
The north wind and south wind got in a big fight and the south wind pulled out north wind's hair and threw it everywhere. This is now the moss that grows and reminds north wind not to stay too long.

"The Plant That Grows in Trees":
The mistletoe grew on the ground at one time. The thunderbird took pity on the mistletoe because all of the animals ate it and killed it. He placed it high in the trees so no one wold eat it.

"Why the Woodpecker Pecks":
A godd of the indians took the children from a tribe because they were being neglected. He put them into hollow trees to hide them from the sun and wolves. He told the tribe what he did then turned them into birds to find the children. That's how the woodpecker came to be.

"The Woodpecker's Stumpy Tail":
A flood came and the woodpecker was warned and did not listen to the warning. When the flood came he tried to get to the highest tree but could not fly at night. His tail hung in the water. A fish came by and bit a part of it off.

"The Tribe That Left Its Shoes":
A tribe of indians left a trail of moccasins to help them get back to their original homeland that had been destroyed. The moccasins turned into orchids.

"The Cloud That Was Lost":
A lot cloud laid on top of orchids and the orchids drank the cloud until they turned pink and lavender while some stayed white.

"The Swift Blue One":
A spaniards brought a horse to the indians and taught one of them the language of the horse. When this indian died they released the horse to the wild.

"Grandmother River's Trick":
River tricked the garfish into swimming over the banks during a flood and trapped them outside of the river to relieve the fish in the river.

Tejas Indians

Growth Mindset: Week 11

The growth mindset I worked on for this week is the reading challenge. I read an entertainment type story this week instead of a myth type story. I prefer reading the myth type stories because they tell more of a story behind the story. I didn't like the entertainment type story because it was more challenging to come up with a story for it. I also read a story out of the UNtextbook in a different location. I was sitting outside and read one of the stories about nature and it helped me to think of the story in a different aspect. Reading outside made me think of the story in a more entertainment way instead of like work as it does when I am in a studious environment. This could help me out in classes like this where I don't have to think of the material in such a stern way.

Somewhere I would like to study

Reading Diary B: Alice in Wonderland

"A Mad Tea-Party":

Alice comes up on a large table with The Hatter, Dormouse, and Hare sitting at it. They refused Alices offering to join the table but she sat anyway. The three had an argument about sentence inversions. The Hatter confused Alice with all of his questions.

A Mad Tea-Party Cont.":

Alice, the hatter, and the hare have an argument over time. The hatter tells a story about how the queen and himself got in a fight and time isn't on his side so he is stuck at six o'clock forever. 

"A Mad Tea-Party End":

Alice and the mouse had a heated conversation about him telling her a story. She left and went to a tree that had a door in it and ate more of the mushroom to make herself shrink.

"The Queen's Croquet-Ground":

Alice was wondering around and found three gardeners painting white roses red. The queen and her party came up to the four of them. The queen asked who Alice was and when Alice got smart with the queen the queen told the guards to cut her head off. The queen ordered the gardeners heads off then left.

"The Queen's Croquet-Ground Cont":

When they got to the grounds Alice realized the grounds weren't normal croquet grounds. The balls were hedgehogs and the mallets were flamingos. The arches were the soldiers. The queen ran around angrily screaming off with anyones head who makes her mad.

"The Queen's Croquet-Ground End":

When Alice saw the cheshire cat she went over to talk to him and realized the rest of his body wasn't there but he could still talk. When the king saw the cat he wen too ask who he was. When the cat refused to tel h, the King told the Queen and the Queen ordered his head off. When the time came to question him the cat disappeared.

"Alice's Evidence":

Alice is in the court room and knocks over the jury box and spills the jurors on the floor and picks them up. When Alice says she knows nothing of the incident the king can't decide whether it is important or not.

"Alice's Evidence Cont.":

The irrational rulings continued and finally Alice stood up to the queen and the queen ordered Alice's head off.

Illustration of the Cheshire

Reading Diary A: Alice in Wonderland

"Down the Rabbit Hole":
Alice sees a rabbit running along who stops to check his pocket watch. Alice thinks this is very strange so decides to follow him. She follows him down a large rabbit hole. Alice then finds herself falling at a slow rate and realizes there are shelves lining the walls and starts thinking random thoughts to herself.

"Down the Rabbit Hole Cont.":
When alice finally landed at the bottom of the hole she landed on a pile of sticks and leaves. She was in a hallway lined with doors which were all locked. She found a table with a key on it. She finally found a door that would fit the lock but it was far too small for her to fit through. She then found a bottle that ssid "drink me". She thought long and hard about whether to drink it and finally drank all of it.

"Down the Rabbit Hole End":
Alice shrunk so small that she could fit through the tiny door. She then realized she forgot the key on the table. She ate a cake thinking it would help her grow. The cake made her grow nine feet tall. She grew so large that she could hardly see out of the door with one eye. When she got out she saw a caterpillar sitting on a mushroom smoking a hookah.

"Advise from a Caterpillar":
The caterpillar and Alice have a very rude beginning to meeting each other and do not get along very well. The caterpillar keeps asking who Alice is but Alice refuses to give a straight forward answer.

"Advise from a Caterpillar Cont.":
The caterpillar told Alice that her story was wrong and if she wanted to change sizes she would have to eat the side of the mushrooms that made her grow taller.

"Pig and Pepper":
Alice walks onto a house that has a frog man sitting outside. She walks up and asks how to enter the house. HE confuses her with vague answers. She walks into the house where it is filled with smoke. There was a cat, a baby, a cook, and a duchess in the house. The cat was grinning form ear to ear.

"Pig and Pepper Cont.":
Alive questioned the duchess about the cat. The cook threw pots and pans at the duchess and her child. The duchess threw her baby in the air and hit it for sneezing. The duchess threw the baby at Alice and ran off.

Rabbit from the story