Tag: 6th grade

Wisdom Tale and Comic

 

 

For the past few months my classmates and I have been reading wisdom tales. We have even made comics about them. What are wisdom tales you might ask? Wisdom tales are a type of story from ancient times that are from around the world. They use characters to describe a human trait.  All wisdom tales have a moral. Actually, many books do too, but wisdom tales really focus on that. 

Fire, Water, Truth, And Falsehood is a tale with four characters. I bet you know who. You guessed it, Fire, Water, Truth, and Falsehood. The story starts when the characters find a very big group of cattle for them to eat. Truth thinks everyone should split them equally but Falsehood doesn’t agree, but keeps that to himself for now. So, Fire and Water agree with Truth but Falsehood thought up a little scheme to get all the cattle. He goes to Water and says to kill Fire so Water would have more cattle. Sadly, Fire gets murdered by Water. Then Falsehood goes to Truth and says, “You saw what Water did to our friend. We have to run.” They ran to a nearby mountain to which Water could not follow. Then Falsehood said, “Truth you shall now be my servant because I am more powerful than you.” But Truth stood up to Falsehood and then they fought for ages and ages. Finally they brought it to Wind for him to decide. Wind didn’t know either so he blew across the whole world to ask people. The answer is that they were both strong. Some said False can destroy Truth with a single word. Others said that if Truth is there even like a small candle in the dark he can change all. The moral is that we should always speak up and look for what’s right. Sometimes the Falsehood gets in the way, but not when the Truth is active.

There are so many wisdom tales that I could have chosen from, but I chose Fire, Water, Truth, And Falsehood. Why did I choose it? Well me personally I thought that it was one of the more interesting of the books. I also thought it would be really fun to draw all the characters. My personal favorite of the four definitely had to be Fire so I was kind of bummed out when he died in the third scene. But then again they were all cool to me.



How did I make my comic you might ask? First I started by making every character on sketchbook. I used the layers to move them around every scene I had to make. I was new to the app so I definitely needed some help with some things, but if you aren’t great at drawing on paper I highly recommend sketchbook. It’s pretty easy to figure out and has lots of cool features. For the comic theme of the story I used comic life 3 which gave me speech bubbles and lots of cool different types of pages. So those are two great apps if you want to make a comic.

Planking

 

What is a habit? A habit is something you do consistently. I have lots of habits. Actually, we all have habits like brushing our teeth every morning and night, or something like going to the gym and working out for 1 hour a day.  The compound effect is when we just added small amounts that built up over time. That’s what I’m going to be talking about today – My journey planking.

As you can see in my habit tracker, I colored in the days of the month from October 24th until December 14th. December 14th was the day of “The Challenge.” The Challenge is something that this Language Arts class does every year, so basically those days I colored are the days I planked. When we started our planking in October it was only 30 seconds. Every week we added 15 seconds so after 7 weeks we were planking for two minutes and 15 seconds. In the final challenge, we competed against each to see who could plank for the longest. I got second place with an 11 minute plank. At the time of this blog writing my arms are still a little sore.

When we first started doing the planking it was a little hard to remember because I just wasn’t used to planking every day. My friends and I helped to remind each other to plank and sometimes we did it together during advisory time. The more time that passed, the easier it was to remember to plank because it just became something I did every day. Over the whole challenge I noticed that it was easier to do it every day, not only because it was becoming a habit but also because I got stronger so it wasn’t hard.  

For my new habit I decided to to stick with an exercising habit and go with 10 pushups a day. When I can easily do 10 pushups, I’ll add 5 more. I hope I’ll be adding one or two times each week until I finally reach 100 pushups a day. Once I get to numbers over 50, I’ll include that it will be okay to do the pushups more than once a day to fit them all in if I need to. I’m pretty excited about trying to create this new habit. For one, I know that if I can do this, then I can also practice creating other good habits, and also, I really like the idea of getting stronger doing pushups.

Window or Mirror ~ Percy Jackson

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This summer I read Percy Jackson by Rick Riordan. This book is fantasy and adventure. I’m going to be talking about this book and the windows and mirrors in it. A mirror is something that’s the same like Percy is 11 and I’m 11 that’s a mirror. A window would be something like being a demigod and me being a normal kid. So Percy is a young boy that is around my age 11. He wasn’t the best student so he got expelled five times… but after the fifth he went to a new school for demigods which I clearly am not. I’m going to leave it there because I don’t want to spoil the whole story if you decide to read it. But it’s a good series book that I really like, so if you like books like this check it out.