Growth Mindset: My Motto

YOU GET OUT OF IT WHAT YOU PUT IN

I try to live my life by this motto every single day. We all do things in life that are very exciting, but some things aren't as fun and we can get a bad attitude about it. However, I always say, "you get out of it what you put in" because it's so true! If you put in a good attitude and mindset into what you're doing whether it's school, extra curricular or work, you're going to get a much better outcome that is so fulfilling! 

Rose the Riveter. Source: Wikipedia

Tech Tip: Canvas Dashboard

Even though the university switched over the Canvas just over a year ago, I still am navigating all the features Canvas has. In comparison to D2L, I like it much better because it has so much more organizing and navigation on the website. One thing that I just recently learned how to do is change the class names on the Canvas dashboard. It was hard trying to quickly find classes and I would have to look at each course number in order to find each class. If you hover over a class with your mouse you will see three dots in a line in the top right corner. If you click on it, you are able to customize the color of your class, change your class name to whatever you want it to be, and more! It's such a convenient tool to have because you can customize your dashboard into whatever will help you feel more organized and successful! If you haven't already done so, I highly recommend you try to customize your dashboard using this tool because it will help you tremendously.

Week 11 Story: How Raven Stole the Lake

Crows have always been white. That was until the Raven made them black after they had eaten his salmon. He was very angry and he came in contact with some beavers with feathers on their heads and gambling sticks on their backs. They asked him, "what's the matter?"

The Raven replied, "my father and mother are dead." The beavers decided to take him home and not go gambling. The next morning, the beavers strapped on their gambling sticks and set off again to go gambling. The Raven flew around and spotted a lake. "Lo, a lake lay there!" he shouted excitedly. He flew closer to see a creek flowing with a fish trap. The trap was filled with salmon. The Raven pulled out the fish trap, folded it together along with the lake and put both under his arm and flew to a tree that stood close by. It was not heavy and was like carrying a blanket.

The Raven looked upon the ground from the tree and noticed someone coming. The person's house and the lake were missing and he was confused. The person ordered the beavers to come and cut the tree down with their teeth in order to get his house and the lake back. The Raven kept jumping from tree to tree until finally the beavers cut down a tree he was in. The Raven lost the lake and it fell back to its original place. The fish trap broke and all of the salmon were freed. The Raven was so mad he flew away. The person was happy because he finally could relax about his house and could live there in peace again. The beavers went back to gambling and set up another trap to catch the salmon they had lost. The Raven never returned to the lake.

Author's Note: The original starts out the same; he sees the lake and all of the salmon and he takes the lake with him under his arm.  but when the beavers are cutting down the trees he flies away with the lake, the house, and the fish and flies far away. He found an open spot to roll out the lake to teach the mainland people a lesson. I changed the story so that the Raven was punished for taking the lake by leaving with nothing. He drops the lake and the house and the fish trap trying to escape and leaves with nothing and leaving everything in their original place.

How Raven Stole the Lake by Katharine Berry Judson

The Raven. Source: Google Play

Reading Notes: The First Woman

A long time ago, there were a lot of men living but far away, there was a woman. One young man traveled to the south where the woman was and married her. The son of the headsman started to travel to the home of the woman and heard the man talking to himself. He waited until everyone was asleep. The son of the headsman crept into the house and began to drag the woman away. The husband woke up and ran to get the woman and caught her by her feet. The two men pulled on the woman and eventually pulled her into two. The son of the headsman carried the body back north and used wood to carve to make each woman complete. Meaning, there were now two women.

The woman in the south was a good dancer, but she could not do fine needlework in sewing the furs because her hands were now wooden. The woman in the north was a poor dancer because her feet were wooden but could sew very well. All the women north are skillful with their hands but and the women in the south are good dancers still to this day.

The First Woman by Katharine Berry Judson

Wood Carving. Source: Pixabay

Reading Notes: The Origin of the Tides

A long time ago, a man wandered down the Nass River. When he set up camp, he made rocks of curious shapes. His name was Qa meaning the Raven and he traveled all over the world. At the time, the sea was always high. Qa discovered a rock in the sea and he built a house under the rock. He did this by cutting a hole through it and fitted a lit to it. He put a man in charge of the whole and twice a day he opens the lid and twice each day he closes it. When the whole is open, the water rushes into it and then it's low tide. When the lid is closed, the water rises again and it's high tide.

Tael, a Tlingit chief was carried out to Qa's rock while hunting sea otters. He could not escape the strong current. He through his canoe line over the trees and was carried down by the water into the hole under the rock. He heard a noise, it was the the man putting the lid on the hole. The water began to rise and Tael paddled rapidly until the tide was low where he could get his canoe. Once the tide was high, Tael escaped.

The Origin of the Tides by Katharine Berry Judson

Beach tide. Source: Pxhere