Anna+Rein

=Anna Rei=

=Assignment 1: My Hero= While there are many great people throughout the years who have been portrayed as amazing heroes and history-changers, my personal hero is someone a lot more ordinary: JK Rowling. JK Rowling is the author of the Harry Potter series, and she has shown me that I shouldn't give up my goals, even if nobody else thinks I should achieve them. When she was trying to get the first Harry Potter book published, she was turned down by eleven publishers before one decided the book was good enough to put into print. Despite constant rejection, she kept trying. Now Harry Potter is one of the best selling book series' of all time. In addition, she chose the name JK Rowling to put on her books instead of using her full first name. The reason behind this was that there weren't very many woman writers at the time. She was worried that less people who read her books if they knew she was a woman. Still, she kept trying, and got her books published anyways, and now she is one of the most well known writers of all time. JK Rowling has showed me that if I try hard enough, I can get anything done that I set my mind to.

https://media1.britannica.com/eb-media/43/102743-004-EC818A89.jpg =Assignment 2: The Golden Age= My perfect world would be inside The Void. I would live inside a tiny pocket of space-time where I could float around forever. It would have free wifi, and none of the battery on anything would ever die. It would always have snacks, and I could jump in between alternate universes through The Void. I could still come back to the normal world from there, if I wanted to, and no time would have passed. In The Void, there would be markers that never dried out and never-ending sketchbooks that never ran out of pages. There would be unlimited bookshelves that could hold all the books I wanted to bring, and whenever I wanted a new one it would appear on the shelf for me to read. My cats would be in The Void, but they would never knock things over or try to eat my food. There wouldn't be nature in The Void, but if for some reason I wanted to leave my abyss, I could choose when I went back and never experience winter again. There would be mountains of fluffy blankets, and and I would live inside of a giant pillow fort. I wouldn't have to live in the void permanently. If it got boring, I could come back to the real world, but The Void would still exist, and I could go back to it any time I wanted. I could throw annoying people into The Void, and they would get sucked into a different section of it, so that I could avoid them in all different realities and live in peace. I wouldn't need to bring much with me, because The Void is a place where I could sit on my laptop for an eternity, but I would bring drawing supplies, my laptop, my cats, a couch, and maybe a friend if I got lonely. http://eskipaper.com/images/blackhole-wallpaper-1.jpg

=Assignment 3: The God Teacher= A double sided gift that I recently recieved is a set of markers that I got for christmas. It was good gift because it had colors that I didn't already have, and a lot of them I now use all the time. They were also really nice markers, and they were a bunch of colors that I wouldn't have chosen on my own. However, the downside to that gift was that, now that he knows that I have new markers, has been asking me to draw something for him since Christmas time. I don't want to draw him anything, but I think I might have to as a price to pay for the good parts of the gift. I have to balance the good and bad in what I received, so it's good that there's more good things about it than bad. http://www.copic-markers.com/img/main-copic-markers.png

=Assignment 4: The End of Childhood= The end of childhood came for me in seventh grade, when I first came to Woodward. Before that, I had been in public school my entire life, and all my classes had been really easy. I never had to study, there was hardly any homework, and I barely ever paid attention. I thought all school would be like that, but when I got to Woodward, I realized that I was wrong. I had to learn how to study for tests and teach myself how to motivate myself to do my work. It was a rude awakening into the real world where people had to try to do well. It took awhile, and most of last year was a bumpy road, but now, thankfully, I've learned how to be a good student and I'm getting good grades again. http://tv-spoty.info/image/f/failed-math-test.html

=Assignment 5: The Cataracts of Heaven= the world is a circle we die we rise we die we rise and so on in the event that we all die that we cease to exist waters rise too high above our heads flames eat away at the last of our existence somehow we will rise again the world will rebuild itself out of the memories of the best of us nothing ever ends and neither will we

=Assignment 6: Changes= One example of changes in the stories we read is Atalanta's race. In the story, Atalanta and Hippomenes are blinded by their love for each other and accidentally disgrace the goddess Aphrodite by disrespecting her temple. In her anger, the goddess turns both of them into leopards. This is a negative change because they are forced from then on to live their lives as savage animals.



=Assignment 7: A Human Year=

My favorite season is fall, for many different reasons. For starters, it is the only season that is not completely unbearable. Winter is too cold, and summer and spring are too hot, but fall is the perfect weather. In addition, a lot of my favorite holidays are in fall. Halloween, which is, in my opinion, the best holdiay, is in October, and there's nothing better than dressing up in costume and getting free candy. In addition, my birthday is in September, just another reason fall is great. Although there is school in fall, it's still the beginning of the year, and there are no exams and all the schoolwork hasn't beaten us down yet. It is the prettiest season as well, when everything is red and yellow and all the animals are preparing for hibernation. In conclusion, my favorite holiday is fall because it's better than the rest of them.

=Evaluation=

The Man the Mythmaker unit taught me many things about the world we live in and the stories we read. The archetypes shown in the myths we read carry over into literature from today, and can be seen in everything we have read this year. In addition, there are similarities to these archetypes in real life. Everyone in the world has experienced the end of childhood, or will soon, and we have all had god teachers and been through golden ages. It was interesting to see how, even though all the stories we read were from different places and time periods, the fundementals are the same. I have learned to look for these things in real life since the unit began, my way of thinking has been changed.