Tech Tip: Canvas Calendar

Canvas Calendar

Calendar: Thenextweb

First of all, who doesn't love writing out everything that is due immediately after you receive your syllabus and have your brand new planner? Maybe, this is just me... but, let me tell you, writing things down really does help you remember important information. For me personally, I write everything down in my planner and use the canvas calendar sync option. I like to use the canvas calendar because sometimes I miss writing down due dates in my planner, but with the automatic syncing, I can see when things are due and on what day. Plus, since I spend so much on canvas due to other online classes, all I have to do is click the calendar tab to see everything for that day. One feature that is great also, is that once you finish an assignment it crosses it off for that day. If you dont use canvas calendar, I highly recommend it!

Week 12: Reading Notes: Part B

Johnny Cakes
 English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs with illustrations by John D. Batten (1890)

Lava cake: Good Free Photos

• Man, woman, and son, Mom made a Johnny cake and told boy to watch the cake, while the others went to the garden to hoe potatoes
• Boy didn't watch the cake close enough, and the oven opened, and the cake rolled out the door
• Johnny cake out rolled the 3 family members
• Did the same to a well diggers and 2 ditch diggers
• Out rolled a bear and wolf as well
• Fox out smarted the Johnny cake by making him stop and speak louder to him
• Fox snatched up the Johnny cake

Mr. Miacca

English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs with illustrations by John D. Batten (1890)

• Tommy grimes was a good and bad boy
• Mom warned him of Mr. Miacca, and one day when in street, he snatched him up
• Took Tommy home and told him how he will cook him with herbs, called out to wife Sally
• Tommy asked Sally if he always ate little boys, only when they are bad
• She likes pudding
• Convinced wife that he could run home for pudding for her too
• However, Tommy was bad again and snatched up by Mr. Miacca
• Told him he would not give them a trick again
• So he put him under the couch, and waited for the water to boil
• Took too long, so he chopped off a leg of the boy
• Leg that he chopped off was indeed his wife's leg
• Tommy ran home and said would never go around the corner again, until he was older

Week 12: Reading Part A: English Fairy Tales

The Old Woman and her Pig
Story source: English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs with illustrations by John D. Batten (1890)

Woman milking cow: Wikimedia

• lady found sixpence, and went off to market to buy pig
• Came to stile and pig would come
• Told dog to get pig, wouldn't
• Told stick to hit dog, wouldn't
• told fire to burn stick, but wouldn't
• Saw water, told to quench fire, wouldn't
• Saw ox, told ox to drink water, wouldn't
• Sa butcher, told to kill ox, wouldn't
• Saw rope, to kill butcher, no
• Saw rat to chew rope, no
• Saw cat, asked to kill rat
• Cat said would, only if she brought her milk from the cow
• Cow wanted hay for milk
• Once cow finished hay, woman brought milk to cat, and then cat began to kill the rat; the rat began to gnaw the rope; the rope began to hang the butcher; the butcher began to kill the ox; the ox began to drink the water; the water began to quench the fire; the fire began to burn the stick; the stick began to beat the dog; the dog began to bite the pig; the little pig in a fright jumped over the stile; and so the old woman got home that night

Week 11 Story: The Grouse and the Rabbit and His Evil Grandmother

There once was a rabbit who loved to play and trick. One day in the Prairie, the rabbit was out in the snow looking. He hopped around the ground, looking all over for something to take back to his Grandmother.

Then a small group of grouse birds were walking on the side of a pond. Together they looked as if they were going to go for a little swim. The rabbit had a good idea.

Spruce Grouse: Wikipedia

He hopped over to the group and grouse and introduced himself.

"Good afternoon!" said the rabbit. "

"Hello! We are the grouse pack, we are just about to go for a swim." Said the head grouse.

"Oh, I would join you, but I'm not a good swimmer. Would you guys like to go back to my house and play?" Asked the rabbit.

"Well we kinda wanted to go for a swim, but you seem nice, so sure! We love playing with new friends." Said the head grouse.

Together, the group of grouse birds and the rabbit went off to the rabbit's place. As they arrived they greeted the rabbit's Grandmother.

"Good afternoon!" they all said together.

As they went into the home, the grandmother grabbed a bag near the a table and snatched up all the grouse birds.

"You see rabbit, we need these birds for dinner. We simply cannot be friends with our food, we must eat them at once." said the Grandmother.

The rabbit began to cry over the snatching of his friends. The Grandmother took the birds away and the rabbit never saw them again. To this day, we still don't know exactly what Grandmother did with rabbit's friends.

Author's note:
The Rabbit and Grouse Girls
Myths and Legends of the Sioux by Marie McLaughlin (1916)

In the original story, the Rabbit captures the grouse girls and convinced them to go into his bag. He brought them home to his grandmother. When the Rabbit went out to get some sticks, the grouse girls convinced the grandmother to let them go. However, all of them escaped but just one. In my retelling I decided to make the Rabbit and the grouse group friends and having the grouse birds go off to the Rabbit's place to play. However once everyone got to the house, the grouse birds were captured by the grandmother.

Week 11: Reading notes: Part B: Sioux

The Pemmican Man And Unktomi

 Myths and Legends of the Sioux by Marie McLaughlin (1916)

Wild Buffalo: Wikimedia

• man dressed in buffalo fat and organs
• Unktomi is a spider, and has a large family
• Untktomi and his family saw the man who was covered in buffalo, and wanted to devour it
• When the man noticed be began throwing off the buffalo items and the spider and his family ate them
• He continued to run away and even got into the water, the fat pooled at the top of the lake
• The spiders sucked up this too
• Spiders went around the lake and saw two men, one was Wakapapi
• Instructed them to fight
• The pounded beef man died, and the spiders ate him, the other fat man ran away
• The fat man skinned a deer and climbed in a tree and suspended the meat
• The spider family saw this, but thought they were in the water due to the reflection
• Used rocks to build, but they made him sink to the bottom
• Unktomi died and a fish ate him

Iktomi and the Turtle

 Old Indian Legends by Zitkala-Sa (1901)

• huntsman Patkasa= turtle
• Saw deer that he was standing above as a gift
• Iktomi (deer) tapped him on the shoulder after he had given thanks
• But how...
• Two were going to battle for the deer
• Patkasa was more afraid of being called a coward than of losing the deer

Week 11 Reading Part A: Sioux

The Rabbit and the Grouse Girls
Myths and Legends of the Sioux by Marie McLaughlin (1916)

Rabbit: Pixabay

• girls are grey and speckled 
• Rabbit convinced all grouse girls to get into his sack
• Brought them back to his grandmother
• Grouse girls cried out and told grandmother they were the grandchildren
• She opened the bag and they flew out, but grandmother caught one

The Rabbit and the Bear

Myths and Legends of the Sioux by Marie McLaughlin (1916)

• Need a certain arrowhead, had to go to bear hut to get them
• Stopped at a little hut, the first in the town, where everyone went
• Asked bear chief for some flint for arrow heads
• Bear was half flint half hard flesh
• Took a hammer and took some flint from the bear's body
• Rabbit struck too hard and the chief bear fell apart
• Rabbit ran away, cried out for snow
• Rabbit turned back and killed them one by one with his club

Week 10 Story: The Story of the Fox

You may have read my tale "The Fox- Woman, and if you did then you know my story. If not I'll give you a brief synopsis about it.

Red Fox: Nps

I am a fox who takes the form of a woman, and does wifely duties. I come and take care of the house while my husband is away, but when he returns I am my beautiful human self, but there is one problem. I release a foul odor once I have been in my human form for a while.

You may be wondering how I become a woman if I am a fox, and the truth is, I am not really sure how this occurs. There is some magical power that allows me to be a fox in the outdoors but once I enter a home, I am this beautiful woman.

To be honest, I enjoy being my fox self more than the human form. I love running in the outdoors and climbing anything that I can see, and plus I get to use the bathroom outside. Oh, and I can also smell and no one cares.

In my human form, I have to do all these stupid chores. I have to clean the house and make sure everything is tip top in shape. Plus, I don't really like using human showers because they are weird to me. So, once I begin to really smell and put out this foul odor, I leave. I leave the home forever and try to stay in my fox form for as long as I can!

So, now you have heard my story. You may see me running around in the forest, or if you're a male who has been away for a whole, you may see me in your home. And, if your home is clean, please thank me for my work. I spent lots of time making sure it was clean for you, and I absolutely hate doing that. I just wish I could live in my fox form forever!!

Author's note:
The Fox- Woman
Tales of the North American Indians by Stith Thompson (1929)

I decided to give the perspective of the fox woman from the original story. In my story above I give you a brief synopsis of the story, and tell you how the fox feels about her work. I wanted to make it similar to the story line of the original story, but try and make it a little funny.