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Story Lab: Storybook Research

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For this story laboratory assignment, I have decided to do a little bit of a more research for my storybook this week. While searching for new original stories of Ganesha, there were a lot of great ones that I couldn't decide to chose for my last story for my online storybook. However, there was one Ganesha story that grabbed my attention. It was  Ganesha and Kubera . By keeping it simple, this story is about Ganesha eating dinner at Kubera's house! This story seemed interesting, fun to read to learn more about it. Therefore, I might consider using this story for my storybook! Ganesha eating modaks,  Link Text .

Reading Notes: Jataka Tales, Part B

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Notes: King had an elephant named, Girly-face. It's because he was gentle, good, and looked so kind. One night, robbers came into the courtyard where the elephant slept. The robbers woke Girly-face. The robbers talked and said to kill anyone in the house if they're awake. They never have a moment for being good. Just bad. Therefore, the Girly-face heard everything and took their advice and hurt the robbers instead without feeling sorry. The next morning, the keeper came in to feed the elephant, but the elephant picked him up by the trunk and threw the keeper to the ground killing him. Another keeper came in to see what is going on and killed him too. For days, the Girly-face was so ugly that no one would want to go near it. But they left food for him but still would not go near it. The king heard what happened and sent his wise men to fix the problem. The wise man knew the elephant for a very long time. The wise man asked if there were any bad men that th...

Reading Notes: Jataka Tales, Part A

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Notes: A merchant packed goods in many carts in the desert. The sun shone down and made the fine sand hot as a stove. As the moon came about, the sand was cool enough for the merchant to travel on foot.  The merchant made rice with a jar of water and firewood. The merchant had a friend which was a pilot.  As the sun approaches, they stopped and camped. They unyoked the oxen and fed them. They built fires and cook the rice too. The men laid down and rest until the sunset. In the early evening, they cooked and built a fire again.  After supper, they yoked the oxen and as soon the sand was cool enough, they started if their journey across the desert. The merchant told his friend that one day they will reach the city. The pilot thinks that the oxen must have turned about while he slept and that they were in the same place as of yesterday. They unyoked the oxen, yet there were no water for them to drink. they must have thrown away the water that was left ...