Mythical Class

This week I opted to do the story lab. I think my final addition to the story/portfolio will be the third section of my Asus and Ligh story . For the lab I read through the second chapter of EmpoWord. The resource was a great learning experience and seemed to be put together by a group of minds that are fluent in both writing and education. The chapter reads like it is designed to be in a textbook, but one that has a personal tone and is aimed at young authors. It defined some well-known terms like epiphany and dialogue, but also went into detail about things like the difference between narrative scope and narrative sequence. Out of all of the resources that I have found out about through this course, this online "textbook" is one that I know I will revisit. I thought that the exercises at the end of the sections could be useful, but were a bit inauthentic for me. Though, I suppose with how unsettling it is to be in a place where you are experiencing writers block, pieces of...

Not your normal Bitcoin Mining As I entered the second part of this week's Brothers Grimm stories, I was still lucky enough to be reading some unfamiliar stories. Right off the bat, I wondered if The Little Lamb and The Litte Fish is responsible for the origin on "Eenie Meenie Miney Moe." Obviousy, some of the text was a little bit different in the Brothers Grimm story. But it would surprise me if the premise and a segment of the words were so similar and it was not the foundation. Moving forward there was some fantastic imagery going on in Simeli Mountain. I felt like I was among the gold and silver within the depths of the mountatin. The story had a pretty shocking ending and I felt like it was not super related to the rest of the story. Maybe a more sensible ending would be for the brother to remain trapped after the mountain closed on him for uttering the wrong name. Either way, reading this second part was yet again a delightful trip down a familiar lane, albeit ...

Dante and Virgil  For this week I had scheduled to do the Brothers' Grimm stories because of how much I enjoyed them as a kid. But when I sat down to begin reading A for it, I saw that Dante's Inferno was also an option and I could not resist (no pun intended!). So for this week I will be concurrently doing the Dante reading. I had always been curious about the Comedy, and the first half of this unit's reading did not disappoint. I had checked out sections of the text in the past, so I was familiar enough to recognize that this is a very different translation than I was used to. For instance, I have been made to recognize the plaque above the entryway to Hell as ending with "Abandon all hope, all ye who enter here." I think that the difference is not incredibly important as far as an informal reading like through this unit, but if I was doing a close reading I imagine I would want to get as close to the original Italian as I could. Running into Socrates and Pl...

The All Important Ring  This week I am reading the Ashliman unit of some classic Brothers Grimm stories. Some of part A's pieces were very familiar, but others I had never heard of. I remember growing up that I had a huge manuscript of Grimm stories (it seemed large at the time, and I think I would feel the same way today). But nowhere in that book did I read Cat and Mouse in Partnership or The Seven Ravens. They both definitely had some familiar literature themes, like the manipulative dialogue that leaves protagonists in some sort of pickle. In the Seven Ravens it took the seventh dwarf's help to resolve the conflict. In so many of these stories of folklore, there seems to be a reoccurring timeline. Even when stories can be entirely unfamiliar to a reader, there can always be elements that seem familiar and allow readers to relate to the text. Story source: Dan Ashliman's Grimm Brothers' Children's and Household Tales. Link . Image source: Link .