What i learned this week is how to video edit. I learned that it's kinda harder then i thought it was going to be because it takes time to put all the things together. It was really irritating because I couldn't figure it out and it was taking along time. But in the end it wasn't so bad but I don't like doing things like that. The story we had to summarize was called The Pardoners Tale. It is about these three drunks that see there friend dead and they decided that they wanted to find death and kill it. So they went to find death and on their way they saw an old guy and he said you'll find death under that oak tree.
We didn't really learn anything this week all we did was work on our projects and present them. Our projects were we had to read three poems and right key elements about them. We also had to say which one was our favorite based on the elements we picked.
We also did creative writings this week. My favorite one we did was writing about the people we love/loved in our lives. The people i wrote about were my dad, grampa, and my papa. I love a lot more people in my life but those are just the people i chose to write about.
The last thing we did this week was start reading The Pardon's Tales. It's an okay tale but i don't really like this kind of read because it's boring. But it's not that bad for the type of read it is.
This week we read the heroic story about Beowulf and how he saved this kingdom. First it started when the king called for him to kill Grendel because he would kill people in the mead hall every time they went there to drink.
So Beowulf and some of his men went to another mead hall and pretended to be sleeping. Then Grendel went for Beowulf and got his arm ripped off so he went back to his cave and bleed to death.
Then Grendel's mother got mad and killed the kings best friend the next night. So the king called Beowulf again to kill the monster. Beowulf had to go under water and go to her home and killed her there. When he came out he had Grendel's head.
50 years later Beowulf was king and had to kill a dragon but died. And had a tower made for him withe the treasure they found in it.
Basically we read a story all week and we're going to write a group essay about it. That's all.
What we did this week was learned about the steps of hero's journey. The eight steps are the call, the threshold, the challenges, the abyss, the revelation, the transformation, the atonement, and the return. We watched Star Wars and filled out a graphic organizer of the steps.