Reading Options

Reading Options

From the start, I can tell just how much information is given to us through the "UnTextbook." It's awesome that we have been given so many resources! After browsing through the many, many options of stories, I think I can already tell what stories will interest me the most. The units "Egyptian Myth," "Europe I and II" and "Southwest/California" caught my attention early, because of my love for traveling. Although most stories transform you to a new place, I love a story that I can tie previous travel experience to in order to make it even more meaningful.

This photo is from "The Sun's Journey" story online.

Many stories I saw in the Egyptian Myth unit related to information I learned in an archaeology class I took here at OU. In this class, we were exposed to many ancient art forms. Likewise, in this unit, particularly the story "The Sun's Journey," an art piece is shown that I have previous knowledge about. This grabbed my attention, because I didn't know there was a back story about the art itself!

From the Europe I unit, the story "Kisa the Cat" caught my eye because of its name. After studying abroad in Europe, I love to learn more about European culture. This story is an European fairy tale about a cat with blue eyes, which just sounds cute!

From the Southwest/California unit, the story "How Bluebird and Coyote Got Their Colors" caught my attention. I remember hearing of a story about a bluebird getting its color, but not of a coyote. The coyote believes the bluebird is beautiful, and I think stories about nature talking are really interesting.

I look forward to exploring more stories in the future, especially those related with traveling and coinciding with stories I already know such as "Alice in Wonderland!"

Comments

  1. Laura GibbsJanuary 11, 2018 at 10:42 AM

    This looks great, Demery! I like how you found topics of interest to you that will be coming up all semester long, with Egypt early on, and then the Native American units around the middle of the semester, and then Europe at the end. And of course if there is a topic you want to work on all semester, you can use the Storybook as a way to make that happen. It sounds like you are interested in all kinds of myth and folklore topics that fit perfectly into this class! :-)

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