Week 8 Famous Last Words

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I have spent a lot of time this week in Bizzell focusing on the Amar Chitra Katha comics to fulfill the reading requirements for the semester.  I chose the comics based on the following criteria:

Gods that are featured or may be featured in my story- Surya, Aruna, Saraswati, Vishnu, Indra

Bird stories- so if I wrote on Icarus’s journey through India, he could trace bird stories to find Aruna’s sons

Stories of friendship and courage- Again, to help with Icarus’s journey

Rama- In order to figure out where pre-Rama this story would occur, since Jakayu and Sampati are old when they come in contact with Rama. 

I also spent time with these comics because they were fun to read.  I liked how the stories were illustrated and how the stories were broken down into a more simplified telling.  There were parts in the Rama, The Gita, and Pandu’s Five Sons that cleared up some points I wasn’t sure if I completely understood when I read through the epics. 

I have a big project that I am about to start on for Intro to Literature, and I’m glad I had the opportunity to get the reading for Indian Epics out of the way before I start the research portion of the project. 

Focusing this week on feeling out ways I could incorporate Indian mythology into my story has helped me clarify the steps I need to take for my Indian Epics project. 

I got to correspond a lot with Laura this week, and now I have a better idea of what I need to be doing for my project for the rest of the semester.  Now that I have it in my brain that this is a storybook project and NOT a portfolio, I will spend time this week looking at the storybook requirements and looking at finished storybooks to get ideas on how to format my website. 

I have spent a lot of time this week in Bizzell focusing on the Amar Chitra Katha comics to fulfill the reading requirements for the semester.  I chose the comics based on the following criteria:

Gods that are featured or may be featured in my story- Surya, Aruna, Saraswati, Vishnu, Indra

Bird stories- so if I wrote on Icarus’s journey through India, he could trace bird stories to find Aruna’s sons

Stories of friendship and courage- Again, to help with Icarus’s journey

Rama- In order to figure out where pre-Rama this story would occur, since Jakayu and Sampati are old when they come in contact with Rama. 

I also spent time with these comics because they were fun to read.  I liked how the stories were illustrated and how the stories were broken down into a more simplified telling.  There were parts in the Rama, The Gita, and Pandu’s Five Sons that cleared up some points I wasn’t sure if I completely understood when I read through the epics. 

I have a big project that I am about to start on for Intro to Literature, and I’m glad I had the opportunity to get the reading for Indian Epics out of the way before I start the research portion of the project. 

Focusing this week on feeling out ways I could incorporate Indian mythology into my story has helped me clarify the steps I need to take for my Indian Epics project. 

I got to correspond a lot with Laura this week, and now I have a better idea of what I need to be doing for my project for the rest of the semester.  Now that I have it in my brain that this is a storybook project and NOT a portfolio, I will spend time this week looking at the storybook requirements and looking at finished storybooks to get ideas on how to format my website. 

Famous Last Words-Week 5

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     I had a lot of papers due in the early part of this week.  It was pretty stressful.  I was nervous about missing the Tuesday/Wednesday notes assignments for this class, but I was glad that the reading options were just more versions of the Ramayana. I was able to read through parts of these versions and use a couple of the extra credit options to make up for the points I lost.  I have a couple of instructors in the College of Ed that preach against offering extra credit.  They insist that it just makes more papers to grade and that the only students who take advantage of the extra credit are the students that don't need it anyway.  Lies!  It's all lies!  Sometimes you need those extra credit points available because life happens and students need options to adjust.

Although I struggled to produce my other writing projects, this week's story came easily to me.  Probably because while I was slogging through papers that had narrow prompts and stuffy rubrics, the creative part of my brain was mulling over the story for this class.  Having the freedom to write creatively was cathartic.  It was like the Once-ler got ahold of my story and it kept biggering and biggering in my brain, and now I have a huge story that's coming together.  I'm enjoying it, though.