Tech Tip: Bookmarking

For this Tech Tip I focused on bookmarking webpages.  I use a lot o
f different websites for school and especially this class so it's important for me to be able to access them easily and not have to type them into the URL every single time.  This can easily be done by bookmarking the pages so I can simply click on the saved link and it takes me right to the website I'm wanting to go to.  One thing that I didn't know I could do before this tech tip was that you can organize bookmarks into folders.  This was really helpful for me because like I said, I have a lot of bookmarks and now they are neatly organized by class!

How I Feel When I Have to type a URL.  Web Source. 

Week 13 Story: Alice and Humpty Dumpty

While Alice was walking along the forest she came to a tall wall with a weird looking egg sitting on top of it.  Alice found this quite odd and went up to the egg who introduced himself as Humpty Dumpty.

"Oh! Humpty Dumpty from the nursery rhyme!" Alice said.

"Nursery rhyme? I do not know what you are talking about." said Humpty.

Alice warned Humpty that it might be safer for him to get down off the wall, so that he doesn't fall and break.  Humpty was sure that this would not happen and told her that even if it did, the King promised to send all his horses and all of his men.

"Yes, but they won't be able to put you back together again." said Alice.

"Why must you talk so much nonsense?" Humpty said.

Alice didn't want to cause an argument so she gave Humpy a compliment on his belt he was wearing.  This frustrated Humpty becasue he was wearing a cravat, not a belt.  He told Alice that she was quite unintelligent for mixing up the two and that she best be on her way.  Alice was angered at this point as well and said "Fine, until we meet again."

Humpty replied back, "Even if we did meet again, I would not recognize you.  Your face it too ordinary. You have two eyes, a nose, and a mouth just like everyone else.  It would be better if your mouth was above your eyes."

Alice decided to ignore this comment and walk away.  As she was  muttering under her breath to herself about how grumpy Humpty was, she heard a large crash behind her.  She quickly turned around and saw that Humpty had fallen off his wall and broken into a million pieces. 

"Hmph!" she said.  "Serves him right for being so rude!"

Alice and Humpty. Web Source. 

Author's note: My inspiration for this story came from the Humpty Dumpty section in Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll.  I kept my story mostly the same but elaborated in the middle section when Alice and Humpty are talking about his famous nursery rhyme (that is not so famous to him).  In the original I found it interesting that Humpty did not know that he was a storybook character and so I added dialogue between him and Alice to better explain that.  I kept Humpty's grumpy character the same because I thought it was an interesting take.  For the ending, the original text mentions the large crash but never says what it was.  I decided to go ahead and tag on the ending of Humpty falling off the wall as "karma" for being so rude to Alice. 

Bibliography: Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll.  

Reading Notes, Through the Looking Glass: Part B

These notes are based off "Queen Alice". 

At this point Alice is a queen and sitting on either side of her are the Red Queen and the White Queen.  They converse quite a bit.  The Queens started questioning Alice's skills like whether she can do math, say the ABC's etc.  The Queen began telling Alice about a horrible thunderstorm they had and became distressed and then said she was very tired.  Both Queens soon were asleep on Alice's shoulder and she was unsure what to do next.  Alice then suddenly was standing in front of a door with words "Queen Alice" above it.  She knocked and knocked but no one came.  Finally, and old frog came and asked her what she was doing.  Alice explained and then they started singing a song.  Alice got into the door and there was a banquet going on with lots of guests and the Red and White Queens.  They told her that she had already missed the soup and fish but to sit down and carve the joint.  Alice had never carved a joint before and was nervous.  The Queens then introduced her to the foods and they all seemed to be alive.  It ends with The Queen about to tell a poem about the fish. 

Alice and the sleeping Queens.  Web Source. 

Bibliography: Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There By Lewis Carroll.

Reading Notes, Through the Looking Glass: Part A

For my reading this week I wanted to continue with my Alice and Wonderland theme so I chose Through the Looking Glass.

I didn't remember that Humpty Dumpty was in Alice and Wonderland so I decided to focus these notes on the Humpty Dumpty part of the reading.

(Humpty Dumpty)
The first part of this reading was very funny.  Alice approaches Humpty Dumpty and they share some conversation before Alice mentions the poem and Humpty Dumpty thinks that Alice has been spying on him.  He is completely unaware that there is a book about him.  He is sure that he would never fall off the wall and does not want to get down.

(Humpty Dumpty Cont.)
Humpty then asked Alice how old she was and she replie seven years and six months.  Humpty says that she should've stopped growing at seven and Alice said that was not possible.  Humpty said it was possible with two people.  Alice quickly changed the subject and Humpty got angry when she mistook his cravat for a belt.  They then talked about unbirthday presents and he asked her to subtract one from 365 and show him the math.

(Humpty Dumpty cont. again)
Humpty and Alice continued to carry on conversation and combining words to make new ones.  Then he said that he was going to recite a poem for Alice.

(Humpty Dumpty end)
Humpty recited the poem for Alice and then told her to leave and that he probably wouldn't remember her because she looks like everyone else.  Alice walked away saying how mean Humpty was but didn't get to finish her sentence because a loud crash shook the forest.

Alice with Humpty Dumpty. Web Source. 

Bibliography: Through the Looking Glass, and what Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll.