Stephanie's Blog

After reading about your opinion on praise and reading some of the articles, I think I decided that I believe you need both praise and critique to give good feedback. I read the article How to Craft Constructive Criticism , and I think one thing this made me think of was that its important to be honest when it comes to giving feedback. But, one point they made was talking about being a mirror and really consider how it is going to come across to them. The other article I read was Presence, not Praise . I don't really think I believe that praise is wrong and hurtful in the long run, but I do think you need a balance and that you shouldn't over do it. This is definitely where the honesty comes into play. You should be able to have mature conversations with people. Praise them when you believe that they deserve it, but don't be afraid to tell them if they are doing something that you don't agree with or if you think they can do better, because it will make them better in ...

Here are my three possible storyline options for the project. I have narrowed down my topic from last week to focus in on cryptozoology  because I think I can encompass all of the ideas that I had before into one story. 1) My first idea came from back in the day, I read a series of books called The Sisters Grimm , which was a mystery/detective storyline based off of the brothers Grimm and their fairy tale adventures. I think that this plot would have a pair of modern day characters that would be on a vacation to modern Greece, but they find themselves time traveling back to ancient Greece and must solve a mystery as to why they were brought there. I'm thinking maybe they would be like related to someone in the ancient Greek times. 2) The second idea came from the series American Horror Story, because in the last season, they are reenacting this haunted house, but it turns out that it's actually very real. So, this sort of goes back to the Urban legend plan a little more, bu...

There once was a family of purebred French bulldogs. They were very well off but they had never been challenged, and the mother and father began to worry that her pups were going to turn out spoiled and rude. The father was always out hunting for food for the family, so usually the mother was with their three pups. It had been a long time since the pups had seen their father. One day a dog who looked like their father began to walk towards their house, however, it was actually a mutt. The pups saw him in the distance and ran to greet him because they were overjoyed that their father had returned! They each brought with them a present to welcome him home with. The first pup brought his favorite toy with him, the second pup brought her favorite brush with her, and the third pup brought with him the most delicious treat that he had been saving to eat after they finished their chores. When they approached the dog that looked like their father they began to realize that this dog was no...

The second half of the Gospel of Mark  is more almost more interesting than the first because it is like stories within stories and it makes you think about their meaning in much more depth, because the meaning might not be as obvious. After completing the reading for Part B, I think my storytelling of the week will be a parable, with some kind of hidden meaning. I am thinking about making this more simplified though, meant for the direct audience being children, yet adults could be reminded of something by it too. Jesus teaches in parables and hidden messages. One thing I wished people would have done more back then was ask questions. It often says things like 'they were too afraid to ask what it meant.' Maybe then, today some of these messages would be more clear. One of my favorite things that Jesus teaches is " If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and servant of all." I think this is something he taught in the sense that the  people  of ...

This week I chose to read the   Gospel of Mark . I chose this because I wanted to use this as my weekly reflection on where my life is going these days. I find that every time you read a different passage in the bible, you get a new experience or insight from it. As it said in the introduction, this version did not have the typical verses like the bible usually does, which made it feel more like I was listening to this story back in the time this was first being told. The gospel of Mark is interesting to me because, while each of the gospels tell the same story of Jesus, they each focus on a different audience and tell it in their own way. I feel like Mark's version of the story of Jesus isn't as symbolic as some of the others, its very factual. I think it ’ s interesting that this gospel starts with the baptism of Christ, while omitting the birth and other traditional stories about his life.  In part A of the reading, I want to focus in on is  J...