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Week 14 StoryLab: Crash Course Myth Videos

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Mythology Crash Course Truthfully, I did not know much about mythology going into this course, so I have been able to grow tremendously in my knowledge of them. I chose to do my final story lab on the crash course mythology videos, because why not test my knowledge of what I heave learned over the past few months. I learned a lot about things I already knew, such as what mythology is and what it generally entails. However, watching these fundamental videos allowed me to pick up on anything I had missed over the course of the semester. What I found most impactful int he videos was the comparison of myths to the direct expression of its subject-matter that enhances belief and vouches for rituals. Going into this class I truly assumed that I would deal more closely with Greek and Roman Gods, however, I learned a ton more about society and ancient and modern cultures.  Mythology gives us a great window into our past and shows us just how much our modern society mirrors that of our
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Week 14 Reading: La Fontaine Unit (Reading B)

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More Mice Mice (Wright) The Cockerel, the Cat, and the Young Mouse  the young mouse had to learn a lesson on who to trust based on looks it is looks that men deceive  The Mouse Metamorphosed into a Maid  This time period seems to be the time that animals morphed into humans  a man marries the mouse that fell and hurt itself then became human  like the woman into a cat  but then the man kills a rat that shouldn't of been around and angers his wife  humans and rats are too different.  duh More Mice (Wright) The Council Held By the Rats  a cat has been terrorizing rats so they have a meeting  helpless  The Cat and the Old Rat  the stories are much more metaphorical  the beginning ones were short and clear  Do not trust so easy  The Tortoise; The Bat (Wright) The Tortoise and Two Ducks  the same story has told before  written in more of a cultural tone  ducks try to carry turtle, but it opens its mouth to speak and falls  The Bat
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Week 14 Reading: Fables of La Fontaine (Reading A)

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The Hare and the Tortoise   Foolish Animals (Larned, with audio) Hare and the Tortoise  most classic version I have read  consistent in rhythm but changes rhyme pattern  The Ass in the Lion's Skin  Definitely meant for children written much simpler than other versions  The Frog and the OX  Like the Ass in the lion's skin, written more for children creates better visuals  More Foolish Animals (Larned, with audio) The Dog and His Image  I love these paintings to go with the stories  The City Mouse and the Country Mouse  These are like the old classics I had always heard  Good imagery  The Monkey and the Cat  Interesting matchup reminds me of all the stories where the monkey was involved but never with a cat  cat tricks monkey for nuts  Foxes (Larned, with audio) Reading these out loud makes me feel like I'm reading Humpty Dumpty  its all about the rhythm and short lines  The fox and the stork  both tried to make each other
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Week 13 Story: Rash Behavior, Dire Outcome

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Rash Behavior. Dire Outcome A man in love is often blinded, whether it is by love itself or other emotions such as passion, jealousy, lust etc. Point is, men often react with their first emotion, typically offering little time for evaluation.  A man in, what he thought, a committed relationship, made his way home from a long day at work. Upon entering his home he noticed his girlfriend's laptop sitting on the kitchen table open to a string of emails. Having called out for his love and received no response, the man peered at the screen for any indication of her whereabouts.  His eyes narrow on the name of another man and widened with anger at the site of times and locations being shared in order to meet up. He noticed the date decided on was one week away. Having seen enough the man bent the laptop beyond its ability, snapping it without a second thought. While the laptop laid useless on the floor, the man sat and brooded over his humiliation.  The words on the screen bur
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Week 13 Reading: Aesop's Fables (Reading B)

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Dogs Wolves (Smart) Smarts fables are truer to life nature  the wolf seems to be the most ruthless of them all over the lion  More Wolves (L'Estrange) An Agreement between the Wolves and the Dogs**  could be adapted to fit another story with a similar moral  Dogs (Smart) The Bitch and Her Puppies** The Dog and the Crocodile** Smart seems to have the darker vision out of the three contributors  More Dogs (Boothby) The Embassy of the Dogs of Jupiter was such a weird fable very far fetched, pun intended  semi Typical fable of Boothby  Yet More Dogs (L'Estrange) A Trusty God and his Master** Want to rewrite this one two paragraphs first with one side of the story second with another side of the story  Rash Action  Cats and Weasels (Smart) Weasel and Mouse Roman version of cat and mouse  The Battle of the Mice and Weasels  Smart gets clever when rhyming with short words  I often try to spice of writing with unique words, but it i
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Week 13 Reading: Aesop's Fables (Reading A)

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The Peacock & Juno The Gods (Davies) Beauty contest among baby animals?  First time I have actually read some stories out loud  Very thankful for the preface's of each fable Jove's Cask I like the rhythm of this fable  The Workman and Fortune  Clever, also a good message about responsibility  More Gods (Smart) Longer, more story to them Juno and the Peacock* Has great moral to the fable could rewrite to mirror today  Fables about People (Boothby) The Boy who Cried wolf  aka the World and the Sheperd's Boy I had never read the original before  The Golden Goose  aka The Man and the Goose  again, never read the original before  Shorter than I thought, but really flows off the tongue  The Housewife and her Hen** Very good and simple to recreate for today  More Fables about People (L'Estrange) first fables by L'Estrange  must longer, not cut up language similar to modern traditional fables  first two actually more
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Week 12 StoryLab:

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Flow of Ideas  For my StoryLab, I returned to the Advice to Writers website. More specifically, I chose to read an article that I disagreed with, unlike my previous story labs. The article that I chose was,  Never Look at a Reference Book While Doing a First Draft .  The title is what caught my eye because it tells us to do the opposite of what I have been doing throughout this course. Not only in this course, but all other writing works that I have published often have an inspiration. No, I do not let it control my flow of writing, but it does help with generating a flow to expand on. If I were unable to use aids while writing, I know it would come out choppy and not at all how I intended. The article told me to not use a thesaurus, which is impossible for me to do. I always catch myself whenever I repeat a word a ton, and it is typically due to the word flowing best with my message. So, I often replace the word after much research within the thesaurus.  Each piece of
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