Week 13 Growth Mindset: Embrace Challenges

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With my major I have done a lot of learning about fixed and growth mindsets.  I have never actually taken the time to place myself in one of these categories.  I think that I go back and forth between a fixed and growth mindset. Some days I am really motivated to move forward with my life while others I just want to lay under my covers all day and wait for good things to happen for me.  I am challenging myself this week with the growth mindset post.  I am challenging myself to embrace challenges instead of lay under the covers.  With graduating in a month (yes a month) I find myself always wanting to stay in bed.  But I am changing that from here on out, it's time for me to start embracing the challenges from here on out. 

 

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Week 13 Storytelling: The Foolish Student

Authors Note:  This week for my reading diary I focused on the Europe Unit.  Elizur Write wrote the Fables of La Fonraine.  This is a book of cute little nursery rhyme type stories.  Most of these stories are made for a child’s audience.   There are many stories in this book that are labeled under the category of foolish animals.  While reading the stories I ran into the story of The Tortoise and the Two Ducks.  The tortoise in this story is very foolish.  The ducks offer to help the turtle get to his destination by flying him there.  The ducks told the turtle to not let go of the stick while flying though the sky; the turtle ended up talking and crashed into the ground. Talking while the ducks were flying the turtle was a very foolish act on the turtle that resulted in him dying.  Here in my story Ben is a very foolish student when it comes to his schoolwork.  Read my story here to see where Ben’s foolishness ends him up. 

The Foolish Student

            Ben Wellington is one of the richest students to attend Murry Case High School.  Ben’s parents own the only department store located in Tulip County.  Tulip County has a population of about 25,000.  Since this is the only department store everyone uses it.  You can buy food, clothes, tools, and pretty much anything you would ever need to live life day to day.  This department store is where the Wellington’s get their wealth.  Ben is the youngest Wellington and has three older sisters and two older brothers. The Wellington family is well known in their community.  Not only are they one of the wealthiest families, but also they are known for their academic status.   You see, all of Ben’s brothers and sisters were valedictorian of their high school class.  Ben was never nervous about not making top of his class until it came down to his senior year.  School came easy to Ben.  Every year he put in little effort and always came out on top.  He never felt at competition with anyone for his spot.  Ben’s mother always tried to tell him that school isn’t always that easy, and that he should study more.  She would tell him that there would be a point of time where he will need to put forth more effort to achieve at a high standard.  When Ben’s senior year rolled around he still had no fear that someone would beat him out of his spot.  He knew that this year is time that really mattered at being first, but he still gave little effort.  After two months of being a senior Ben and his fellow classmates received a new student.  His name was Matthew.  Even though Matthew was placed in all the same classes as Ben, Ben still didn't fret that he would get his spot taken.  It came down to be two months before graduation and Ben still wasn’t worried that is until his teacher informed him that he had moved down a spot by half a point.  Ben was angry and knew there had to be a mistake. But his teacher told him that it was because Matthew did 10 points higher than him on the last exam.   When Ben’s mom found out about him dropping a spot she was furious and told him he better get is act together for the last two months.   Ben didn’t take it seriously and instead of studying after school he would play basketball all night.  The shot for his spot back depended on the last test of the semester.  All Ben had to do was get 10 points higher than Mathew on this test.  When the results came out Mathew ended up doing 12 points higher than Ben.  Ben then realized that it was all his fault by not working harder when he should have.  His family will always be upset with him for ruining the family tradition. 

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Bibliography:  “TheTortoise and the Two Ducks”  This story is apart of the La Fontaine unit.  The Fables of la Fontanie translated by Elizur Wright (1882)

Week 13 Reading Diary: EUROPE Unit

This is the second day for week 13's Reading diary.  I am still reading Fables of La Fontaine, but today I am focused on Part B. All of the stories in this part are from Fables of La Fontaine by Elizur Wright.

READING B:

Mice
-This first section of mouse stories is a little bit hard for me to understand.  I don't always understand what these rhymes are trying to say and these were pretty complicated and didn't make sense to me.  Nothing found me interested.

More Mice
-Same thing with these stories, they aren't interesting to me at all.  Nothing about them catches my attention.

The Tortoise; The Bat
-I think I have read about the tortoise that can't keep him mouth shut on the stick about 12 times now.  This time it was ducks that tried to fly him.  Every time the turtle hits the ground and dies I still get a little sad.

Frogs
-It's nice to see different types of frog stories than the regular prince is a frog story.  I still wash;t very interested in these stories.

The Swallow; The Eagle
-How sad that the Eagle's eggs got broken.  Yes I understand that the eagle was being mean but don't we know the golden rule "Do unto others as you would do to you".

Man and Beast
-This bear and man have become friends. And the man invited the bear to come back hime with him.  Even though the her does not want to go he accepts Eventually their relationship grew to be familiar and friendly.

The Astrologer; The Dairywomen
-A astrologer falls into a well, but thats is about all I got from that story.  I think there is a lot of creativity that could be placed in this story.  I like that the dairywomen's name is "Good Peggy" Good Peggy seems to have a happy life.

(Good Peggy) 

The God Mercury; Hercules
-In "The Woodman and Mercury" it was interesting to me that the man had lost his honest livelihood because he had no axe to tools. Why do these things make a man honest?

Sun and Wind; Belly and Members
-In this first story they take sun and wind and talk about their different affects on life.  I loved this because I love anything to go with nature especially the sun.. because it's yellow and reminds up to be bight and happy.

Week 13 Reading Diary: EUROPE Unit

This weeks reading diary is from the Europe Unit: Fables of La Fontaine By W.T. Larned and Illustrated by John Rae

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READING A:

Foolish Animals
-I have always loved the story of the Turtle and the Hare.  I love turtles so I enjoy that he wins the race. Also the story sets up for a good lesson to be learned.  The second story is a bit strange.

More Foolish Animals
-Poor dog lost his bone and then the meat.  I believe that maybe he was trying to go for a swim.  Dogs love to swim.

Foxes
-The fox wanted the grapes so bad.  Once he finally jumped high enough to reach the grapes he realized that the grapes were nasty and sour.  Interesting that the Stork and Fox were friends inviting each other to eat.

Birds
-The fox in the first story was quite funny making fun of the bird.  I hate birds so I found this pretty funny.

Insects
-Cute that the Grasshopper sings, it's cute because grasshoppers makes noises and in this story they related those noises with singing.  The ant having to swim reminded me of one time at pool someone told me that an ant can survive in the water for 11 minuets, I'm going to have to look this up now.

Foolish People
The Hen With the Golden Eggs was a good lesson in greed. Why would he kill the Hen if she laid Gold Eggs?? All of these stories deal with some person acting foolishly like the man who killed the hen.

Horses
-I like how the horse was described by "The humble slaves of men"  I have never thought of a horse this way for a man. It's like we describe dogs sometimes, "a man's best friend"

Dogs
-In the first story I like how the dog was able to help save the wolf. Everyone knows that wolves and dogs are in the same family. In these stories the dog seemed to always be the one to help.  I really enjoyed that because dogs can be very loyal.

Be Positive: Learning by HEART

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Everyday I try and remember to be positive in everything I do.

I always try and encourage my friends to be positive because good things and kind people flow from positivity. 

So if you have a group text or you are siting with your room mates at breakfast remind them to be positive for the day! 

It just might make a Monday good for once :) 

Week 12 Famous Last words

This whole semester has been extremely busy for me.  I am in enrolled in 6 classes have two jobs plus I strive for a social life.  I have not been into my blogs as much as I should be.  My other classes have a lot to do with research. If you didn't know producing and creating a research proposal takes a lot of time.. and I mean A LOT.  Most of my time is spent digging deep into book at the library reading information on my research question for this semester.  So for the next two weeks I am going to strive to hit every assignment and have it turned in on time.  This will be a challenge for me since there is an assignment due everyday, but I am ready to give it my all! I have recently re planned my calendar and have left certain times to spend on this class.  So we will see how this goes.  Stay tuned for next weeks famous last words to see if I have succeed. 

-Sarah Trapp 

Growth Mindset: Multiple Intelligences

For this week's Growth Mindset Challenge I watched a short video about Multiple Intelligences by Marek Bennett.  I have been introduced to the term multiple intelligence before, but I have never taken the time to actually write out all of the different types.  This video did exactly that and I was able to see that there are so many different ways an individual can learn.  I for one know that everyone has their own personal learning style that works best for them.  I am dyslexic and apart of being dyslexic is that you have to learn the best form of human expression and communication that works best for their brains.  This video serves as a great reminder that we should focus on expanding and learning how to approach all the different learning styles.

Multiple Intelligences by Marek Bennett