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Famous Last Words: One year

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  I have been in the class for basically a year now. I look the Indian Epics version in the spring, and the Mythology Folklore this semester. I am so glad I took both and I really recommend to everyone to take the counter version of what you are in. I cannot tell you how much I have learned about different cultures, people, and history through the stories I have read. It is so interesting to me how much the stories we tell can say about ourselves. This class was a little bit out of my comfort zone since I have not written any sort of fiction writing and then let someone read it since probably middle school. I really believe we reveal a lot through our writing, whether intentional or not and fictional or nonfiction. It took a lot of self-convincing to not care what people thought about my writing and stories. I feel like it has been a good exercise in growth mindset though to push myself. I do not think I had a favorite reading, but I do think I liked the Indian Ep
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Review: The last one!

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Revelations: Celebrating LGBTQ Stories Through Bharathanatyam I was so happy and surprised to see this video. I feel like often LGBTQ stories do not have a lot of representation in mythology or folklore so i t was so cool to see a celebration of a coming out story in this video! I also really enjoyed this graphic from  Laura's blog  because it is so accurate and also good to know that even our teacher feels the decline as the semester gets to the end. 
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Tech Tip: Quote Maker

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Quotes Cover This is the easiest one and my favorite yet!
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Learning Challenge: Sleep

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Why sleep may be more important than studying New thing: I learned about all the different phases of sleep and how they affect us Confirmed: I knew that sleep was important, but that has never stopped me from pulling an allnighter before. I think that we all undervalue sleep. Curious: I think that after this I will try to have better sleep habits to see if it really works. I am curious to see if it makes a difference. Kid sleeping,  Pixabay
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Growth Mindset: Motivation

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How to Turn on the Part of your Brain that Controls Motivation I knew: that I could control myself but sometimes we all lack motivation and feel unable to change that I learned: that scientist can use tools to see exactly which part of your brain is active which is a crazy thought altogether. Curious about: how this research will change things like psychotherapy about motivation and people's will to do things and this is definitely something i will research more Wikipedia , Poster
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Extra Reading: Mythical Creatures

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Mythical horses  from Crash Course Apollo's horse flew Nors Horse helps stop build wall in asgard turns out to be Loki Muhammad's horse travels fast Centaurs more animal than human Centaur story is put into parthenon Pegasus Persus  Winged  Unicorns greeks and romans believed them to be real had like many other animals body symbols of chasity image info:  Flickr , unicorn
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Story: For the Pope's eyes only

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There once was a man who pulled stones in his cart. This man, named John, worked hard and travelled far each day. He had a lot of work to do, and his tried his hardest to do it well. One day, while pulling the cart, the cart stopped. John pulled and yelled for his horse to walk on but the cart would not budge. He looked under his cart and noticed the ground started the give way, leaving his cart stuck in a hole. He ran to the nearest farm begging the men to come help him. Three men followed John to the cart and together they worked into the evening moving the cart. Finally, after of hours of work, the cart budged. The men cheered and soon saw that there was a deep hole where the cart had gotten stuck. They looked into it and talked about what could be down there. John, being a rather brave man, volunteered to go down and investigate. The other men grabbed the rope they had used for the cart and lowered John down into the hole. It was pitch black but john soon hit the bottom.
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