Reading Notes W2 Coyote Cooks His Daughter (Cupeño), Part B

Coyote Cooks His Daughter (Cupeño) p. 52-55

Summary.

• It is clear that Coyote and his daughter live in a home inside of a rural area, they have no food sotred away and must go out to hunt for food

• Coyote goes out to hunt and brings along his daughter, While pursuing food coyote is constantly on the lookout to come across danger or prey in the wilderness.

• Coyote's daughter is slower than Coyote, but she is able to keep up with him wile Coyote searches for food.

• They reach a lake to drink from, and from there begin to travel home empty handed. Coyote realizes that his family can not survive without food, and hits his daughter with a stick thus killing her.

• Coyote brings his daughter's corpse home, and removes her hair and cuts her up as to not alert his wife that they are eating their daughter.

• Coyote begins to cook his daughter, and soon after appears the ghost of the daughter appears before the old woman Coyote (presumably the mother)

• The mother figures out that this is the ghost of her daughter and that Coyote (her husband) is the culprit

• In what I presume to be a fit of rage and disillusion, old woman Coyote burns down the house that Coyote is cooking his daughter in, thus killing coyote.

Personal Thoughts

• Many important words within these poems are repeated three times (i.e. burn-burn-burned, jingle-ingle-ingle, twitch-twitch-twitched)

• I feel this is narrated this way possibly because there are three members of the family, and the actions of each impact the entire family

• This story is extremely blunt, and tells you straight up without warning when something bad happens, and I feel it helps this narrative style because it makes some of the actions feel more shocking.

Reading Notes W2: The Creation, Part A

"The Creation" (Maidu) p.23-35

• The beginning of the story starts off with a "Godlike" creature known as the Earthmaker scouring Earth at a time when nothing was on the Earth.

• Earthmaker finds the next character, Coyote. Earthmaker asks Coyote about finding land among the Earth to no avail.

• Earthmaker continues to talk about the Earth, and talks about how he wants to travel the Earth looking for land. Earthmaker proclaims he will be happy if he can see just a tiny bit of land while traveling the area.

• Earthmaker and Coyote come across a small bird's nest. Earthmaker decides to expand this tiny object and stretches out the bird's nest into a large piece of land.

• The next character to be introduced is the meadowlark, a creature that is said to expand lands and keep them stuck together.

• Earthamker and Coyote ask meadowlark about the making of the world. Meadow lark explains that he knows nothing, and that the brilliant two creatures that inhabit the world (Earthmaker and Coyote) must design this world as their own.

• Coyote explains that he wants all creatures who inhabit this world to have blood. The blood of everything is a symbol of their creation and shows them their origin. Meadowlark concurs with this idea of blood, and thus becomes a creature (presumably a bird) and flies away.

• Earthmaker wants to make the land bigger, and wants there to be enough land so that many creatures can inhabit the land.

• Earthmaker goes on to create two white creatures, one that is male and one female, he does this does this once more but with black creatures instead.

• Earthmaker believes that all creatures should have a name and place within the world, and that every one of them should belong to a country, that also has a name.

• After many winters, Earthmaker finally comes up with the concept of humans.

• He began making humans in pairs, proclaiming that these humans will have names, and bare children that will also carry on names.

• Once Earthmaker felt that his job was complete, he traveled to the middle of the world, built a house there, and decided to live there from then on.

Growth Mindset

I see myself as someone who has somewhat of a growth mindset. A majority of the time I feel as though I can make myself better, and I can learn new things to further my knowledge. There are many times that I feel the other way, and that I am hardest to do things that are against my best interest. I will sometimes be on a long streak of doing well, and getting all things that need to be done in a timely manner. Other times I will be procrastinating, waking up late, and feeling as though I am not doing what I need to better myself. These setbacks that I place in front of myself are something that I would like to learn from, or something that could cause me to fail, just so that I can learn from my mistakes. I believe that having a growth mindset is a good thing to have, and that having setbacks can be good for you if you have this mindset. Without this mindset these setbacks that are bound to happen to any person will stop them from achieving their goals, and for me not getting to where I want to be is just unacceptable. I hope to grow myself through this semester, and through the rest of my life so that I can be the person that I can be.

Technology

Using Technology 

To be honest I consider myself somewhat tech savy. My father showed me how to build a computer and I have been working with computers as a hobby for some time now. Setting up the blogger was a bit challenging at first, but after going over the instructions and looking through the wiki, this does seem like a great and efficient way to show my work. I hope to be able to use only resources and documents (without plagiarizing of course) to further my knowledge and produce quality work.

Time Strategies

Time Strategies

How I will manage my time efficiently to have a successful semester:

• Check canvas and my notes every day when I get home from work
• Visit a local library or my school library at least once a week to do work
• Clear out all distractions and make my school work my number one priority
• Check in with my professors constantly to make sure I am doing what I need to do
• Use resources and my fellow classmates effectively to obtain the most informatioin
• Create a schedule with a rigid timeline, and make this a routine to follow

This checklist of ideas seem to me as a good way to stay on track and complete all my work in a timely manner. Hopefully I can begin doing these as soon as possible so that this will become a routine for me, and I will form a good habit for the rest of the semester!

Introduction

Hello my name is Jaylen Rollins, and in this I will tell you about myself and who I am.

I was born March 27, 1996 and while I have moved around many times, I have always lived in the Bay Area. This is my Third semester at Los Medanos College and my first time taking an online course. My plan is to become a law enforcement officer somewhere here in the Bay Area. I have looked into many different police departments and I hope to one day be accepted into the Walnut Creek Police Department, but many places in the bay area will be fine with me! I currently live in Brentwood California, and work at Sprouts Farmers Market as a grocery clerk. I enjoy what I do very much and I get along great with my coworkers, working at a grocery store really is not so bad! More than anything I want to become a police officer, and wear a badge to be a symbol of protection for a city.

Other things that I have enjoyed during my time at Community College is taking psychology classes and sociology classes as well. I like to learn about the mind and what makes humans do what they do. I am very glad that I am taking this course as reading and writing are very big parts of police work as well! Writing reports, reading and analyzing statements and other information is all very crucial to become a good officer, and I want to be the best that I can be! I want to make the best of my life and do what I feel I would be good at, and this pathway to success feels like the best path I can take. I am sure there will be setbacks along the way, but I believe that when I look back on my life in the distant future, the decisions I made and the hardships that I face will have been worth it.

Favorite Location

Hello Jaylen Rollins Here!

My Favorite place to visit is Cancun: Mexico! My family owns a time share at a beautiful resort there and we visit almost once a year! Everything about Mexico is amazing, from the countless beaches, the amazing water, the great people, and most importantly the culture. What I love most about visiting Mexico is the new culture and experience of different ways that people live. When we visit Mexico we usually spend a day visiting Mexico city, and I must say that Mexico City is nothing like the Bay Area! From the countless food stands, the multitude of shops, businesses, and markets, and the different types of people that you see while visiting, it feels great to experience something that is much different than what you are used to. I plan to visit Mexico again this summer and am very excited for my next trip! Hopefully this will inspire you to visit a foreign country or a different culture so that you can learn about the world and what it has to offer!

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Tourism-g150807-Cancun_Yucatan_Peninsula-Vacations.html

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Hope to have a great semester!