Week 7: Growth Mindset

Beyond School: 
  I see myself using growth mindset beyond school in many aspects as a person. I like to always learn from people and even though not everything you learn is positive you learn to take the positive. I see myself applying growth mindset best to just everyday life and having the urge to learn new things from people. Such as handy work that I learned from my father such as changing to car oil to learning how to put sheet rock to make a wall. It is something that even though I do not need to learn, I learn it anyways because it makes me grow in knowledge. This can relate to growth mindset because it is the want to learn that makes you a better person and student.

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Storytelling: The Pretty Face

Once a upon a time there was king, evil with greed, and most notable for his addiction to women. The king had ruled over the kingdom for seven years and seven years it was of pure agony and starvation for the people of the kingdom. People would plan out ways to kill the king but the king was very cautious and smart about not being exposed. As the months went by on the seventh year people were just about done with the king and wanted to over throw him. However, it was impossible because the king with his tactics was wise and controlled most of the higher ups that could do anything about the situation. The king’s guard was also one of the best known around the world. To kill the king was a mission impossible.

            Right outside the big city lived in a tiny little house a young woman known for herbal remedies. Some claimed she was a witch and others, claimed she was just one with Mother Nature. This young woman was very beautiful and had never put a foot in the city ran by the king. Men would fall instantly in love with her but she would never give any man her attention. The young woman was a very generous and helpful woman to any person who came up to see her and take from her remedies.

            One day a former servant of the king came down to the woman because he had an infected wound and was in need of healing. The man got to the woman and she healed up his wounds. The young woman then asked, “who has done this to you?” The man responded, “the dreadful king who rules like a tyrant and mistreats his loyal servants, and for this he must die.”  The Servant knew of his addiction for woman so he asked the beautiful young lady if she was up to the task to rid of this dreadful king. The woman agreed and left to the city instantly with the servant.

            Upon arriving to castle the king went head over heels seeing the beauty of the young woman standing in front of him. The King came to her and said, “What bring such a pretty face to upon me today?” The young woman responded, “I’ve come to wed you oh majestic king.” The king delighted set everything up for the wedding instantly and so night came. On that night the young woman stayed the night with king and made love to him. Once asleep she took a sword and cut his head of and wrapped it around with bed sheets and swiftly left the city.  The next day the servant of the king noticed he did not wake so they got the royal guard and broke down the door to find the king lying in his blood headless.  The young woman had got away anybody suspected it had been her.

Authors Note: This story was inspired by the Nigerian Folktale The Pretty stranger that killed the king found Folk Stories from southern Nigeria. by Elphinstone Dayrell (1910). The story tells of how witch disguised herself as a pretty young woman killed the king by cutting his head off. In this same way I used a pretty woman that killed the king by cutting his head off. I kept a lot of the details the same however i went in a little more detail about what the king was like.

A king

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Reading Diary B: Nigerian Folktales

The Story of the Lightening  and the Thunder

• The story is about a mother sheep (thunder) and her son ram (lightening).
• The story goes that lightening would get mad and go burn houses and knock down trees and sometimes even kill people
• Lightening's mother thunder would always call out to lightning to make him stop 
• One day the people got tired of the destruction and went to the king to make it stop
• The king cast them out to another bush and made them live in the sky where they now remain
• Sometimes Lighting still causes damage and you can still hear its mother thunder calling.

The Cock who caused a fight

• This story is about two brothers with one of them owning a pet cock
• Soon after a poor local who pretended to be their friend
• The poor local eventually started telling lies to each brother about what was happening with the cock which eventually started a war
• At the end of the war it was realized that poor local and the cock had started so both were killed

Lightening 

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Reading Diary A: Nigerian Folk Stories

The Pretty Stranger who killed the King

• There was the Strong king of Calabar, Nigeria that had a lot of enemies and was very powerful
• Then there was the enemy town Itu who had a witch who can make her self appear as anything she wished
• She transformed into a beautiful young women who the whole town of old town Calabar admired
• The King of Old town fell in love with her and wanted to marry her
• The witch cooked the king a meal that put him to sleep then cut his head off killing the king
• She got away and nobody thought of her as the killer and eventually Itu was able to attack Old Town

Why the Bat Flies by night

• A bush Rat and a bat were friend and always ate together
• The rat asked why the soup the bat made was so good
• The bat told him that he boils himself in his soup because his flesh is sweet
• So the rat went home and tried this out and died in the pot of boiling water
• The wife of the rat was furious and told the king and after that their was a search for the bat
• The Bat then changed his habits and hid in a bush and would only come out at night and never by day after that

Calabar, Nigeria circa 1900

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Extra Reading Diary: Japanese Fairy Tales

The Two Frogs

• There were two frogs one from Kioto and the other from Osaka
• There both interested in venturing out to see their native country so one wanted to go to Kioto and the other to Osaka. 
• On their travels they met each other half way there on top of a mountain so they decided to stand on their hind legs holding each other up to see their destination
• They were both foolish because their eyes were on the backs of their head so they looked at the town were they came from and therefor believed the destination they were going to was exactly the same as their origin.

The Stonecutter

•  The Stone cutter was a about a stone cutter who had heard of a spirit that grants riches and wishes to many men
• He was satisfied until one day he wished to be rich
• The spirit heard him and as he went along with the wish he continued to wish to be other things
• In the end he wished to be simple man who cut stones for a living
• As he went through from being a prince to a the sun he was now satisfied with his life and never wished for anything else

 (A frog)

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Storytelling for Week 6: The King and the Pirate

The King and the Pirate

There once was a poor man who went along day after day saying, “If anyone gives me a ship, I will sail the seven seas and give to them half of my riches that I scavenge.” So this poor man would go along day after day saying, “If anyone gives me a ship, I will sail the seven seas and give to them half of my riches.”
One one day the poor man was passing by the palace and the king happened to be there. The poor man repeated, “If anyone gives me a ship, I will sail the seven seas and give them half of my riches found in my voyages.” The king with a sense of honesty told the poor man, “That usually does not happen with the forgetfulness and greed in the hearts of men nowadays.”
The poor man answered, “I shall not be one of those men and I will not forget the actions of kindness done to me.” So the man went on still in high spirits repeating the same thing he had said many times before. On another day the poor man came across one of the king's naval admiral and told him, “If anyone gives me a ship, I will sail the seven seas and give them half of my riches.”  
The admiral answered, “I have seen many of my crewmen be granted the gift of a ship and all of them were filled with greed and instead they sought to kill and steal from those who only granted them good." 
The poor man answered, “I will not be like those men. Instead I will remember the good acts of those who have done them.”  So the poor man continued believing and repeating that he would sail the seven seas and give the half the riches found to the person who would give him a ship. There the poor man came across a merchant on the docks of the harbor and said, “If anyone gives me a ship, I will sail the seven seas and give them half of my riches found in my voyages.” The merchant then responded, “That is not true. I gave one of my good sailors a ship once. In return he became a pirate and stole from me.”

So the poor man discouraged sought the king once again. “Unfortunate man, will you ever forget the favors?” asked the king. “Never will I forget a benefit,” answered the poor man.
"Then here is a ship with a crew that will serve at your every command,” said the king.  So the poor man was intrigued by a pirates life rather then that of a merchants life. So the poor man ventured off on voyages becoming a pirate and with that he became richer than ever before.  When time came he did not give half of his earnings to the king and the king let it pass. The king did this because he knew eventually the poor man would have to pay up.

One day the now ungrateful man saw one of the king’s merchant ships that was carrying treasures of the king. So he seized the king's vessel and took everything it had with him. As he looted the ship other royal ships had surrounded the ungrateful man's ship. The royal ships seized the ungrateful man's ship and left him and his men for dead. Together with his crew the ungrateful man was left floating in the sea shipless and treasureless.

Author’s Note: This Story was inspired by the story The Wizard and the Beggar found in Laos-Folklore by Katherine Neville Fleeson (1899). The story of the wizard and the beggar tells of a man who claimed that he would remember the benefit of the man who would give him all the food he could desire to eat. So the story goes and tell that man eventually forgets all the benefits given to him. The wizard then gives the beggar a jewel that grants him anything he wants and the wizard keeps a jewel that allows him to fly. The beggar then gets greedy and tries to kill the wizard and steal the other jewel form him and in the end is left with nothing. My story is pretty similar because I didn't change the fact that the beggar is a poor man. The big thing I changed was the fact that he wants a ship to sail the seven seas and become rich. I keep the fact that he does not pay up to his benefactor and in the end is left with nothing.

(Pirate Ship)

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