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Grass hopper talking to ants Source:  Un-Textbook For this extra credit reading on Aesop's Fables, I will be focusing on the story "Insects, Fishes, and Frogs" by Sir Brooke Boothby. In this story there are eight different miniature stories. The first story is "The Ant and he Grasshopper" and in this story a grasshopper asked for food from an ant but the ant refused and mocked the grasshopper for singing and dancing in the summer and not working. The next story is "The Gnat and the Ox" and in this story is about a gnat sitting on an ox who thinks his weight is tiring the ox out. The next story is "The Fly" and in this story a fly thinks hes the cause of clouds in the sky. The next story is "The pike and the Herring" and is about a pike who is a big and fierce creature but soon comes to realize from a herring that there is always a bigger fish in the sea. Up next is the story "The Angler and the Little Fish" which is a

Princess on a 28 mattress bed source:  Un-Textbook For this weeks readings I chose to read Anderson fairy tale unit. Within this unit I will be focusing on the story "The Princess and the Pea" by Hans Christian Anderson. This story is about a prince who is longing to marry but only wants to marry a princess. The prince would search far and wide trying to find that perfect princess that he would like to marry but he never had any luck. One day though there was a terrible thunderstorm and during this storm there was a knock on the door. The door was answered and surprisingly enough a girl who said she was a princess was at the door. To prove that this girl was a princess the Queen had the girl sleep in a bed that a pea under the mattress, but there wasn't just one mattress but twenty eight mattresses and twenty eight eiderdown beds. The princess slept through the night and in the morning the queen ask how she felt. The princess said she slept terrible and that the bed w

A bird wearing peacock feathers Source:  Un-Textbook For the second part of reading Aesop's fables, I will be focusing on the story Birds from the story source "The Fables of Phaedrus" translated by Christopher Smart. This story is also multiple stories in one but instead of a donkey like in my first reading notes, this one is about a bird. The first story is called "The Vain Jackdraw" and in this story a Daw picked up quills of a Juno's bird and tried to wear them around other peacocks. The peacocks were not particular fond of this and "roughed" up the bird for it, driving the bird off. The second story is called "The kite and the Doves" and in this story about a hawk, which is called a kite, and doves. The doves are usually able to avoid the hawk due to their quickness at flight but the hawk was able to trick the doves and start to prey on them. The last story is "The Cock and the Pearl" which is about a rooster who stumbl

A donkey wearing a lions skin trying to fool his master Source:  Un-Textbook For this weeks reading I decided to read Aesop's Fables unit and I will be focusing on Aesop's fables: Asses in the story of "Fables and Satires" by Sir Brooke Boothby. This writing is actually made up of multiple stories in one all about a donkey. Each small story within this all are unrelated to each other. The first story is called "The Ass and the Lion skin" and is about a donkey who finds a lion skin and decides to wear it. The donkey went around pretending to be a lion scaring other animals. Eventually the donkey went to his master home and tried to scare him but the master saw right through the disguise. The second story is "The Ass, The Ape, and the Mole" and in this story the donkey and a ape complain about how he wants a horn and the ape complains about his short tale, but a mole puts them both to shame when he tells them that they are lucky they weren't

Body language Source:  Pixabay For this weeks story lab I chose to go to the  Writers Write website  and look at article that intrigued me. One article that caught my eye was "Cheat Sheets for Writing Body Language." This caught my interest because I believe being able to write the body language of a character in a way that the reader feels the emotions going on it important. A story that has well written body language will really bring the reader into the story and add such great detail to the story. In this article it give five tips on why writing body language is useful. Tip one is to use body language to add more depth to the dialogue of the characters in the story. Tip two is that body language is useful to use because more than half of all human communication is no actually verbal. The third tip is that body language will help show how the emotions of the characters will affect the actions of that character. Tip four is to use body language will allow the reader to

Crow Source:  Pixabay In the second part of reading "Welsh Fairytales and other stories" I will be writing about the story "Crows." This story is all about crows and what it means when you see them. It starts out with a poem that talks about what happens when you see a crow then what happens when you see two crows and so on until it reaches seven crows. When you see seven crows with their tails towards you it means that you will die within seven years. So after this poem it focus on a young man who had been out at seas for years before. The man had started to have crazy dreams at night that would have him doing all sorts of things such as flying through mountains and seeing fairies and giants, but one thing that was consistent in his dream was that he kept seeing seven crows. In the last parts of the young mans dream he was steering his ship out at sea and seven appeared in front of him and the man couldn't steer his boat. the boat got struck by a steeple an