Logan Biggs Blog Fall 2020

  Bibliography:  Ellen C. Babbitt , The Quarrel of the Quails -Lots of Quails lived together in a forest and the most influential and wisest was the leader. -A man would catch quails and sell them near a forest. He would use the note the quails thought was their leader.  -The fowler would throw a net over them and he went into town where he would sell all of them he caught. - The next time the fowler throws a net over you, each of you must put your head through one of the little holes in the net. Then all of you together must fly away to the nearest thorn-bush. You can leave the net on the thorn-bush and be free yourselves." -The next day, the Quails did this plan from the leader. This happened multiple days in a row and his wife was very upset with him because he wasn't bringing home any money.  -The fowler thought that as soon as the quails begin to quarrel, he would be able to catch them all. -  When the fowler came that day he flung his net over them, and th...

    Bibliography: W. Robinson , The Lion and The Boar -This lion lived in the mountains and used to drink water out of this lake. One day, he saw a boar feeding over on the opposite side. He had just eaten a leg of an elephant and wasn't hungry. But he thought to himself that the boar would be a nice meal one day.  -He crawled quietly away through the bushes, hoping he wouldn't see him.  -The boar had sharp ever and did see him. The boar thought the lion was afraid.  If he wants to go, he must fight me first!” He puffed his chest out very big, and rubbed his tusks against a tree, then he called out:  Stay, stay, runaway!  Let us have a fight to-day!  You have four feet, so have I!  If you fail, you can but try! -The lion was so shook, he couldn't believe the boar wanted to fight. The lion talked so much trash to the boar and he was so scared. His friends barely knew him when he got home. All bristles on his back standing up, greedy eyes were ...

  Bibliography:  Ellen C. Babbitt ,  Why The Owl Is Not The King Of The Birds -The people who lived together when the world was young took a certain man for their king. The four footed animals also took one of their number for their king. -Fish in the ocean chose a king to rule. The birds never had a king so they all decided to try to make the Owl the birds king. -The crane didn't want the owl to be king.  See how sour he looks right now. If that's the cross look he wears when he is happy, how will he look when he is angry? I, for one, want no such sour-looking king!" -The crow flew up crying, the owl followed him. From then, they were enemies. The birds then decided to make a turtle dove their king. Turtle dove, king of birds

   Bibliography:  Ellen C. Babbitt , The Banyan Deer -There was a deer the color gold. His eyes were round jewels, horns white as silver, mouth red like a flower, and his hoofs bright and hard. Had a large body and a fine tail.  -He lived in a forest and was king of a herd of five hundred deer called Banyans. Near by, there was another herd called the monkey deer, who had a king as well.  -The king was fond of hunting the deer and eating deer meat. He never wanted to go alone so he would invite people of the town to go with him.  -No one did their work, so they decided to make a park and drive the deer into it. Then the king could go into the park and hunt and they could go on with their daily work. -The made a park with grass and provided water for the Deer. Built a fence for them as well.  - The king went at once to look at the Deer. First he saw there the two Deer kings, and granted them their lives. -Some days the king would go to hunt the Deer, so...

     Bibliography: Ellen C. Babbitt , The Crab And The Crane -There was rain one summer and all the animals wanted water, but fishes suffered most of all.  -In a pond, there were fishes with very low water. A crane sat on the bank watching them. -The boys ran to the fishes and also there was a Turtle in it. -A little fish asked the crane what he was doing and he told him that he was wanting to help the fishes that had barely any water. The first crane to ever offer to help, -The crane offered to carry the fishes back to another pond where there is plenty of water and food. - A big Fish heard the Crane and said, "I will go with you to see the pond—I may as well be eaten by the Crane as to die here." So the Crane put the big Fish on his back and started for the deep woods. - The crane went back and grabbed a fishy. He took him into the woods and put him down and ate him.  -He did this to every fish and made it to where there was no more. The next day, he came back...

  Bibliography:  W. H. D. Rouse ,  The Mouse and The Farmer One day, there was a farmer who was just hanging out around his ranch when a mouse came crawling up to him. This little mousie buried a hole in the ground where he stays and sleeps. "Hey farmer, my name is mousie. I see you around all the time and want to be friends with you in exchange for whatever you want." "Hi mousie, nice to meet you. Come back another day and we can talk more, but I'll make sure not to hurt you." Little did the farmer know that he was about to get the best gifts from the mouse ever. The farmer had a cat named cattie but the cat didn't know because he was so small. A couple days went by and finally the mouse came back with gold from the ground. The farmer was so appreciative of this and decided to find a way to show his appreciation.  "Thank you so much mousie, this is very nice of you. I have decided to give you pieces of meat for you to eat to show my appreciativeness,...

    Bibliography:  W. Robinson , The Pious Wolf -There was a Wolf sleeping on top of a large rock when a flood hit. The Wolf woke up and found himself with no way of getting off and nothing to eat. -The Wolf thought to himself what he could do so he crossed his paws and pretended to pray. Thought to himself good and pious to be fasting. -A fairy so this so she switched into a little kid and jumped down onto the rock. The wolf saw this and forgot his prayers immediately . He snapped at the kid and the kid jumped away.  -After the wolf tried to catch the kid, the wolf laid down again and said it was Friday and he had best keep his fast today. - “You humbug!” said the fairy, who had gone back to her proper shape; “you are a nice creature to pretend that you are keeping fast! You fast because you can’t help it, not because you are really good. As a punishment, you shall stay on this rock till next Friday, and fast for a week!”  So saying, she opened her wings a...

   Bibliography:  W. H. D. Rouse , The Mouse and The Farmer -This mouse made a hole where there was thousands of golden sovereigns buried in the ground. -A farmer who owned land where the treasure was but did not know about it but the mouse did. The farmer always saw the mouse but never hurt the mouse because he was a kind farmer. When the farmer was having dinner, he would throw the mouse some cheese.  -The mouse tried to show the farmer he was appreciative of him so everyday, he would bring the farmer a golden sovereign and the farmer would throw him so meat to eat. He started doing this for weeks and got very big.  -The farmer had a black cat but could never see the mice because he was always so small. One day the cat pounced on the mouse ready to eat him because he was so fat.  -The cat and mouse spoke words back and forth. They agreed that the mouse would bring the cat the meat the farmer would give him everyday. If he missed one day, the cat would eat...

  Bibliography: Ellen C Babbitt,  The Turtle who Couldn't Stop Talking One day, I was just strollin around the wildnerness where I live by the pond. There were these two birds who flew around me for quite a while, pretty sure they were geese. I got very nervous and scared so I hid myself in the pond. The geese flew away and never bothered me the rest of the time.  The next day, the two geese came back and I was outside the pond at the time. They came down to me and said, "Turtle, we are looking for some food for the night, can you be our dinner?" I, still scared and nervous at day two, decided to talk calmly to the geese.  "Why would you want to eat me, I've done nothing to the two of you besides be friendly, I just met you guys." I exclaimed. The geese decided to be friends and stop terrorizing me.  A couple days the geese came to visit me at the pond, we talked and hung out a lot. One day the geese tell me they will take me to a far away very nice home if ...

 Bibliography: Ellen C Babbitt, The Elephant Girly-Face -This King had a elephant names Girly-face. Named this because he was so good. kind, and gentle. "Girly-face never hurts anybody." - "This is the way to break into a house," they said. "Once inside the house kill any one who wakens. A robber must not be afraid to kill. A robber must be cruel and have no pity. He must never be good, even for a moment." - This got Girly-face on edge and decided to act as these robbers do. Keeper by keeper came to feed and Girly-face killed 2 of them. Picked him up with his trunk and killed him.  -The King heard of the elephant acting like this and sent one of his men to check on him but could find nothing wrong with him.  -The wise man asked one of the other keepers if he has been around people who talked bad and the keeper said "a band of robbers were caught here a few weeks ago." -The wise men suggested that the King sends nice people so Girly can hear good ...

    Bibliography: Ellen C Babbitt, The Ox Who Won The Forfeit -A Man owned an Ox and he was so strong, the man bragged to everyone about him. -The owner told a man in a village that, " "I will pay a forfeit of a thousand pieces of silver if my strong Ox cannot draw a line of one hundred wagons." The man in the village agreed and decided to make the bet. - The owner took the Ox and a huge crowd decided to come out to see. - Then the owner whipped his Ox, and said: "Get up, you wretch! Get along, you rascal!" The Ox was very concerned as to why he was spoken that way so he just stood still. -That night, he went to feed him and the Ox asks, " "Why did you whip me  to-day?  You never whipped me before. Why did you call me 'wretch' and 'rascal'? You never called me hard names before." -The owner decided to never do that to him again and the Ox took his apology. The Ox agrees to go tomorrow to do what he failed in the earlier day before...

   Bibliography: Ellen C Babbitt, The Turtle who Couldn't Stop Talking -A turtle sat at a pond and 2 wild geese approach looking for food. -The next day, they came back and soon became very great friends. -The geese tell the turtle they have a very nice home far away and ask if he wants to come but the turtle has no wings. -The geese tell the turtle they will take him if he can keep his mouth shut. -The next day, the geese come with a stick and have the turtle bite the middle as they fly to their home. -Village children saw the crazy events happening above them. -The turtle spoke out and then fell from the sky and dropped dead right in front of these children. - As the two Geese flew on, they heard the people say, when they came to see the poor Turtle, "That fellow could not keep his mouth shut. He had to talk, and so lost his life." Turtle and Geese flying

    Bibliography: Richard Wilson,  The Indian Story Book : The Five Tall Sons of Pandu -Duryodhana doesn't like the fact Yudhishthira was named king of his realm so he wants war.  -Krishna's brother wants to make peace but a warrior of Krishna's clan calls for war. (Satyaki is the warrior) -Drupada thinks they should seek allies. - When the great armies first meet on the battlefield, Arjuna hesitates to attack as enemies his own uncle and cousins and also his teacher Drona. Krishna persuades him to obey Duty (Dharma ), and Arjuna agrees. (pg 102) -Bhisma leads Duryodhana's army to an advantage on the first day. The second day is opposite, Arjuna and the Pandavas come back fighting. -Bhima slays many of Duryodhana's brothers but almost dies, but the battle must go on.  - Fighting for the Pandavas was  Shik handin , who had been born a woman but transformed into a man, a warrior destined to bring about Bhishma's death. Bhishma would not fight someone who was ...

   Bibliography: Richard Wilson,  The Indian Story Book : The Five Tall Sons of Pandu -Pandu is the father of these five tall sons. -Names are Yudhishthira, Bhima, Arjuna, Nakula, and Sahadeva. Nakula and Sahadeva are twins.  -Pandu dies and his blind brother becomes king, Dhritarashtra. He has 100 sons. -Drona trains princes in arts of war. Once they grow up, they have a tournament about arts of war. -Duryodhana crowns Anga the kind of Huga. -A Charioteer enters the tournament and it is Karnas dad. -Duryodhana tries to trap the Pandava in a burning house with their mom but they escape as hermits. -Drupada sets up an archery target thinking only Arjuna will win. Arrjuna strings the bow and shoots the target. - Arjuna then takes Draupadi home and tells his mother he has won a prize. Kunti declares that it must belong to Yudhishthira as the eldest, so Draupadi will be the wife of Yudhishthira, not Arjuna. - Pandavas have made an alliance with King Drupada, Duryodhana d...

  Looking back, I am happy with my progress so far. The only thing I'm not happy with is the assignments in the class I have missed which is all my fault because I have been lazy and focused on other things. The assignments that I enjoy the most are the feedback posts because it helps me understand the things I could be doing better. The extra credit opportunities that I have taken advantage of have been the extra reading and the check in and connect. Things have gone good developing my blog. Looking forward, the changes I want to make are being on top of my assignments and doing more extra credit to make up for my past assignments I've missed. Nothing new that I want to try in my writing other than maybe expending some of my stories and writing sequels. I do not have anything I want to change about my blog. I chose this quote because I feel as if it will get me through the rest of the year ( I'm going to make it )

  Overall, the feedback given by my fellow classmates really help me out. They let me know what I'm doing good and if they like the story. They also let me know what I need to try to be better at. I find the feedback comment that suggests things for me to do the most useful. I feel as if I am giving out good comments to my classmates. I think I could be better are reading over their story/blog multiple times so I can give more suggestions to them. I think I am getting good ideas for my own writing as I leave comments and read peoples posts.' I am happy with my intro post, I wish I would've been more detailed about it and actually show them who I am instead of just answering the questions you provided for us.  Looking forward, I think the class blog comments should go on all semester, but I don't think the introductions should be required to comment on all semester long. It is nice getting to know our classmates, but I think just the first half would be best. I think the...

 Overall, I feel as if I am doing really well with this class in general throughout the first half of the semester. I think my biggest problem is procrastination. This has always been a problem of mine, but since I am in 18 hours now it has become so much worse since I am focusing so much more on my upper division classes.  My reading and writing assignments are going well. One thing that I think I need to work on are my stories and the way I retell them. I sometimes get loss and trying to tell the story in 2 different perspectives instead of taking one. (i.e. 1st or 3rd person, past or present tense). I am extremely happy with my blog and my project website.  My favorite reading assignments have been the anthology stories. I choose these because I use most of those to write my stories since my portfolio is all about adventures and things to do with animals. I usually won't write stories about the readings that are assigned because of this reason. I like to go back and fi...

Bibliography. "The Crocodile and The Monkey's Heart" from Jakata Anthology .  Once upon a time in a forest filled with different animals lived a monkey. He loved to eat different kind of fruits and loved to explore his home, the forest. One day as he was running around, he noticed a pond with 2 crocodiles living there. He was so nervous so he decided to not go too close to the pond. The 2 crocodiles, mother and father, had seen the monkey before but had never tried to talk to this creature. The mother crocodile loved this little monkey and wanted his heart more than anything, she wanted to rip it out and eat it. "Hey, you there on land, why don't you come closer," says the father.  "You guys are scary and so silly to think I would even take a step closer towards you two," the monkey shouts out. A few days go by and the monkey hasn't even shown his face to the two crocodiles. "Where do you think that monkey is, I want his heart to myself,...

  Bibliography: R.K Narayan, Narayan's Mahabharata, http://iereadingguides.blogspot.com/2015/05/week-1-of-2-narayans-mahabharata.html -Yudhishthira wants to make one last plea for peace. Worried about if it's safe for Krishna to go to Hastinapura as his emissary. -Duryodhana plans to take Krishna captive. While he is there, he sees Kunti and brings news about her sons. Rejects plea for peace from Krishna.  -Krishna and Karna talk. Tries to get Karna to abondon Duryodhana, but he refuses. -Yudhishthira makes Dhrishtadyumna, Draupadi's brother, the commander of his troops. Bhishma is the commander of Duryodhana's troops. Battle takes place on the field of Kurukshetra. - Dhrishtadyumna tries desperately to kill Drona to avenge his father's humiliation, but Drona escapes him. Bhishma attacks Krishna and draws blood, which enrages Arjuna, but when Krishna goes to slay Bhishma with his discus, Arjuna begs him not to (pg 151). - Drona is now made the commanding general of ...

Bibliography: R.K Narayan, Narayan's Mahabharata, http://iereadingguides.blogspot.com/2015/05/week-1-of-2-narayans-mahabharata.html -Duryodhana tries to humiliate the Pandavas but it backfires completely. He tries to set up a royal camp near them, but the gods sent Gandharva to take care of it. -Pandavas free Duryodhana from captivity. -The Pandavas are walked up by Brahmin in the forest. -A giant deer stole his staff and a kindle he used to make a fire. -The deer runs away and the Pandavas can not catch it, they look for water. Nakula finds a lake, but he needs to answer questions before drinking. -Nakula ignores the voice and drinks the water then dies. -Nakula, Sahadeva, Arjuna and Bhima all do the die from drinking the water. Yudhisthira finds all of them. It was a test from his father, Yuma. -Yudhishthira is the King's companion in King Virata. Bhima is disguised as a cook, Nakula is disguised as a stable boy, and Sahadeva as a cowherd. -Draupadi is the hairdress of Queen ...