Monday, March 2, 2015

Reading Review Week

As I reminisce over my past reading diaries, some of the stories jump back out at me. I had completely forgotten about the Tales of a Parrot collection, and I am not sure if that is because I didn’t enjoy it as much or because I simply forgot. One reason might be because I had an instant connection with both collections in the Biblical Unit, and the African Unit were fresh on my mind. Tales of a Parrot was also more complex and written with a higher level of vocabulary, so it took more time to understand the bottom line.

I have already started using the Adam and Eve and Bible Women collections for my final storybook because I fell in love with the stories. This is an image from my first post that comes from the story of Eve in the Bible Women collection. It represents both mistakes and grace. 


I usually connect my reading diary posts with my storytelling assignment because the stories I enjoy the most are the ones I want to recreate in my own words. As I look over my summaries for some of the stories, I tend to forget the stories with shorter descriptions. In the beginning, I wrote lengthy paragraphs about my favorite stories so that helped me to remember the plot, characters and purpose of the story.


It is so interesting because I do see overlap with this class and two of my other classes. One is my Languages Across Cultures class because we delve deep into the cultures that are lost when languages die. Many cultures are preserved because of folklore and songs. My other class that it overlaps with is my Introduction to Human Relations class where we talk heavily about discrimination. By reading mythological stories and folklore from different culture, it helps you appreciate other people’s roots.

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