EC, Wikipedia trail, Week 3; Growth Mindset

https://us.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?hspart=iry&hsimp=yhs-fullyhosted_011&type=mcx_me3579bdfpyzsegikmoq6vy_19_07_ssg0318&param1=yhsbeacon&param2=f%3D4%26b%3Dchmm%26cc%3DUS%26pa%3Dmcyahoo%26cd%3D2XzuyEtN2Y1L1QzuyEyCyCtAtBtD1TyDyDyByE1StD1Szz1PzyyBtAtBzz1SyE1RyCyDtC1TtA1R1TtB1T1QyD1R1RyCtB1RtN1L1G1B1V1N2Y1L1Qzu2S0EtAtC0FyBtBtDyCtGtA0ByB0CtGyE0DtA0CtG0AtA0C0DtGyCtBtA0DyE0E0CyE0E0A0EyC2QtN1Q2Zzu0StByDzyzytN1L2XzutAtFyCtFyDtFtCtN1L1CzutN1T1IzuyEtN1B2Z1V1T1S1NzutBtDyCzztC%26cr%3D409154828%26a%3Dmcx_me3579bdfpyzsegikmoq6vy_19_07_ssg0318&p=wikipieda
I went to Wikipedia and entered Growth Mindset, it took me to the above link which was labeled, "Mindset" and "Growth Mindset" was within the text under "Fixed and Growth." The text names Carol Dweck as is discusses "Growth Mindset." I then selected the link for Carol Dweck.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Dweck

Carol Dweck's link gave information on her early life, education, early career, and her work on "Mindset". She taught in motivation, personality, and social development. I selected the link for Social Development.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_change

Which redirected me to Social Change. It provided the definition and information on current social change; Global demographic shifts and gendered patterns of work and care. Which discussed men and woman's work. I selected woman's work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_work

Woman's work discusses woman roles with children is defined as pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, midwife, education regarding self care, etc. vs men's roles that have to do with strength and out doors.

This was an interesting assignment, I have never done an activity like this. I started by looking up Growth Mindset and ended with Woman work and their implied roles.

EC, Week 3, Weekly Review: Asked for help

By the end of last week, I was feeling stuck and struggling with the question, am I analyzing correctly and am I doing our writing assignments correctly? I was feeling good in the beginning of the week after I posted my first blog for our reading assignment A, I felt even better after my blog post on reading assignment B. I felt like I was getting the hang of it and my notes were getting easier. Then on Wednesday, I read one of our announcements that said we need to analysis and not summarize. I looked back at my two post and realized I was summarizing more than I was analyzing, I started to question myself and start really struggled with writing our weekly analyzing blog for the week. I started writing and then would read it and it didn't seem right, I felt like I hit a wall and with all the links and information given to us to help,  it was only making it worst for me. I e-mailed asking for help, but knew I had to write my blog for the week, so I didn't miss out on the points. On Friday, I seen the e-mail with sign up times for a meeting with our professor Mrs. Hiltbrand's with her office hours, I knew that I needed to sign up and talk to her as soon as I could. I was able to schedule an appointment for Monday.
I went to our appointment and met Mrs. Hiltbrand's, she was very kind, welcoming, and I felt very comfortable. I expressed my concerns and expressed that being successful in this class and is very important to me. Mrs. Hiltbrand explained that our notes from the readings are truly our notes, we can write them however we want and is useful for us. She clarified that her announcement about the summarizing was for our weekly blog due on Thursdays, that should not be a summary, but we need to analysis. She then read my blog from last week and said it was on the right track and we talked about it. She also discussed our upcoming project and a few other things. It was great being able to meet with Mrs. Hiltbrand and having a conversation, maybe something I am lacking with an online class. This is really my first online class and I am just trying to figure it all out and trying to manage my time so I do not fall behind. After this meeting I felt a lot more comfortable with my blogs and know that I will be able to be successful in this class and if I have any doubt or questions to just send an e-mail to Mrs. Hiltbrand and ask, she really does make herself available to us.

Thank you for your time Mrs. Hiltbrand and I really happy that you are my professor for my first online class.

Topic Research, Week 3, What does this story teach us about history?

Project Topic: Choose one short story or novel excerpt. Write a piece in which you explore: What does this story teach us about history?

For this project I will need to read a short story or novel excerpt that is about or has a lot of information about an event in the California history. I am choosing this as a topic because I would like to learn about California history, and will learn a lot buy finding a story, looking up the meaning of words I am not familiar with, identifying, key parts of the story, such as theme, characters, setting, etc. Once I have identified the story or novel excerpt which I will be from our readings, I will also research the time frame it was written, because then I can get an idea of how the culture was at that time and look up historical events during that time to help have a better understanding of the reading. I will use the Internet to assist me with the research part, I do not have a specific website to use at this time.

Week 3, Analysis, Literary Analysis, The Luck of Roaring Camp

The story of, The Luck of Roaring Camp, was very detailed on the culture of the camp and how the camp started regeneration, once a child was born. Roaring Camp was a male only camp, with one woman, Cherokee Sal. The men at this camp were "rough", missing fingers, toes, and eyes, strong, and a close cluster of men that stuck together. Cherokee Sal was a woman, that was coarse, feared and a very sinful woman, she was abandoned, isolated, and alone at a time that she needed another woman. Cherokee Sal was pregnant and in labor, with only rough men around her and helping. 

Once the baby was born, his mother, the only woman in the camp died. All of the men were invited into the cabin to see the baby boy and contribute anything they wished for the newborn baby. Kentuck, who was a very roughed, walked by and the baby boy grabbed his finger, this interaction affected him, you could say changed him, he went from a man that was, "habits of frontier life, had began to regard all garments as a second cuticle, which like a snake's only slought off through decay.... Yet such was the subtle influence of the innovation that he thereafter appeared regularly every afternoon in a clean shirt, and face still shinning from his ablutions." To a man that cleaned up every day so he could hold the baby.

The men in the camp decided to keep, care and raise the baby, they decided against giving him to another camp or having a woman come to the camp to take care of him, they did not want another woman in their camp. “This unkind allusion to the defunct mother, harsh as it may seem, was the first spasm of propriety, - the first symptom of the camp’s regeneration.” This is when the camp started regeneration.

Stumpy, the man who helped deliver him, was his caregiver. The men named him Tommy Luck. It was thought that he brought, "the luck," to the camp. 

Tommy Luck was given a cabin that was keep clean and had improvements to make it a comfortable. Regeneration continued at Roaring Camp, a changes happened all over the camp, they started to improve their personal cleanliness, social sanitary, and moral laws. It was a honor and privilege to hold the baby. The camp was not allowed to be make loud noises, yell, cuss, smoke around Tommy, the men started to whisper, use soft vocal music, and see the beauty around them.

The golden summer came and the claims had yielded a lot, the camp was becoming prosperous. "With the prosperity of the camp came the desire for further improvements." The camp decided that they would build a hotel the following spring and have a family or two come and stay, they thought it would be good for Tommy. Most men agreed but there were a few that were hesitant, but it was not going to be for a few months, so they continued to plan.

That winter there was a lot of snow on the mountains, rain, rivers looked like lakes, a camp nearby, Red Dog, was flood twice and Roaring Camp was warned. One day the water from the river rose above the bank and flood the camp. The next morning, Stumpy's cabin was gone and his body was found, but Tommy Luck was missing. A relief boat came with Kentuck and he was holding Tommy Luck in his arms, he was dead. Kentuck was dying and was upset Tommy Luck was dead. He continued to hold Tommy Luck in his arms and said, “he’s a taking me with him, - tell the boys I’ve got the Luck with me now.”

A camp that was full of rough men, raised a baby for a year, changed their culture to be cleaner and not as rough around the baby, they were open to improving their camp and inviting others, but with one bad winter the camp was destroyed and Luck, the baby who brought their camp luck was gone. 

Feedback Strategies, Week 3, What kind of message helps kids grow?

I read the article, "What kind of message helps kids grow? I chose this article because I have an older daughter that struggles in school, my husband and I are always looking for ways to help her realize that she is capable of doing better if she tries. Over the years she has struggled with being self motivated, she gives up easily and uses it as a way to not do all of the the work she needs to complete. I think the Mindful Mindset is helpful for me because I know what I should be doing, but in the moment it is hard and is very challenging. It is a lot of effort on my part to continue to encourage her. I know that she is capable of more if she puts in the effort. However I also think I can be more positive with using the "Power of Yet," as talked about in the article and in the music video. It reminds me that I need to use the word "yet" more, it seems simple but is hard in the moment of parenting. 

"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/40369/preschoolers-and-praise-messages-that-can-help-kids-grow

I feel I am confident in giving feedback, I try to start the conversation with asking the person how they feel they are doing? Provide positive feedback, such as recognizing the person for an achievement they have made, improvement in something we discussed in the past or some type of positive statement. Once I have done that I get into the area's of concern or area's of improvement. I have learned that giving examples is very helpful and useful, because I may say something but it is taking in a different content, so if I given an example, it helps relay the message correctly. 

I find that issues or conflict occur when the person is not open to the feedback even though they may ask for it or say it is welcome, the person can get very upset and defensive. I do my best to de-escalate the tension and end the conversation for the moment and come back to it at a later time if it is still needed.  

Reading Notes B, Week 3, Nursling of the Sky

This is a passage that describes the different climates of California from the hills, mountains to the deserts. This passage also describes the seasons from rains, snow storms, to the dry desert winds of California.

"They have habits to be learned, appointed paths, seasons, and warnings, and they leave you in no doubt about their performances. One who builds his house on a water scar or the rubble of a steep slope must take chances. So they did in Overtown who built in the wash of Argus water, and at Kearsarge at the foot of a steep, treeless swale. After twenty years Argus water rose in the wash against the frail houses, and the piled snows of Kearsarge slid down at a thunder peal over the cabins and the camp, but you could conceive that it was the fault of neither the water nor the snow."

This section of the passage is a short but detailed about how they had to learn the land and weather to survive and to build because if you did not know how the weather was going to be in the different seasons then you wouldn't know how it would affect you. In this section a house was build and destroyed during the winter because of the snow. 

Later in the passage it describes the desert winds and the dust storms. "But being in a house is really much worse; no relief from the dust, and a great fear of the creaking timbers."

Lastly, the passage describes some of the native animals to California, such as the red snake, bobcats, trout in the steams, blackbirds, jays, crows, doves, mallards, cattle, deer, and sheep and the climates they are found and how the weather can impact them.

This was a very descriptive passage and helped me visualize the different climates and seasons of California.

Reading Notes A, Week 3, The Luck of the Roaring Camp

Roaring Camp was a male only camp, with one woman, Cherokee Sal. The men at this camp were "rough", missing fingers, toes, and eyes, strong, and a close cluster of men that stuck together. Cherokee Sal was a woman, that was coarse, feared and a very sinful woman, she was abandoned, isolated, and alone at a time that she needed another woman. Cherokee Sal was pregnant and in labor, with only rough men around her and helping. Stumpy was a man that went to help deliver the baby. Once the baby was born, Cherokee Sal died. The men were invited into the cabin to see the baby boy and contribute anything they wished for the newborn baby. Kentuck was walking by and the baby boy grabbed his finger, this interaction affected him, he thought about it and checked on the baby. 

The men talked about who was going to take care of the baby, suggestions were to give him to another village or to have another woman come to the village, both were decided against and they decided that they would keep and care for him. Stumpy was his caregiver and they names him Tommy Luck. It was thought that he brought luck to the camp. 

Tommy Luck was given a cabin that was keep clean and had improvements to make it a comfortable. Regeneration started at Roaring Camp, a change happened over the camp, they started to improve their personal hygiene. It was a honor and privilege to hold the baby, even the roughest of men, Kentuck came in a clean shirt and was cleaned up.

"With the prosperity of the camp came the desire for further improvements." The camp decided that they would build a hotel the following spring and have a family or two come and stay, they thought it would be good for Tommy. Most men agreed but there were a few that were hesitant. 

That winter there was a lot of rain, a camp near by, Red Dog, was under water twice and Roaring Camp was warned. One day the water from the river rose above the bank. The next morning, Stumpy's cabin was gone and his body was found, but Tommy Luck was missing. A relief boat came with Kentuck and he was holding Tommy Luck in his arms, he was dead. Kentuck was dying and was upset Tommy Luck was dead. He continued to hold Tommy Luck in his arms and died with him. 

A camp that was full of rough men, raised a baby for a year, changed their culture to be cleaner and not as rough around the baby, they were open to improving their camp and inviting others, but with one bad winter the camp was destroyed and Luck, the baby who brought their camp luck was gone.