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For these reading notes, I am going to break down important sentences of the story and write my opinions and thoughts about these sentences. I think this will help me to see things from the writer's perspective, as well as potentially start to get some ideas about a story that I can write. I read part B of the Nigerian Folk stories, but I am just going to do these notes over "Of the Fat Woman who Melted Away." "There was once a very fat woman who was made of oil."  this first sentence really caught me off guard! I wasn't expecting to read about a woman who was made of oil, though the title said that she melted away.  "men...offered dowry," "her mother always refused."  This shows that it was arranged marriages during the time of this story, but that because this girl was made of oil she was not able to get married. Her mother said that she would not be able to work on the farm or in the fields because she would melt in the sun. I ...

This week, I decided to do a normal note-taking style instead of changing it up like I normally do on Tuesdays. The style I consider normal is what I do in most of my lecture classes. I read/listen and take notes on the aspects of the lecture or story that I find most important or that stick out to me most. Taking notes while I read and listen helps me to retain the information better and to stay focused instead of drifting off and daydreaming. I usually will do big headings and then bullets underneath each heading. Sometimes I write in complete sentences, but most of the time it's shorter, more concise notes. The Elephant and the Tortoise:  elephant used to have eyes that were in proportion to its giant body.  elephant ate so much at the feasts that the humans and animals shared with each other  (animals and humans were friends at this time) tortoise seemed to be mad that elephant ate more than others he wanted to stop the elephant  tortoise went to el...