Week 15 Reading Notes, The Crab and the Crane

 The Crab and the Crane, Ellen C. Babbitt

There was a summer with very little rain

One pond was almost dried up and a crane was talking to the fish in that pond

The crane offers to transfer the fish to another pond

they think the crane wants to eat them

The crane took one fish on his back on his back to the other pond 

and then the fish told all the other fishes about the pond

The crane came to take one fish but took it to the woods and ate it

He did this until there were no more fish

The crane came back the next day to see if he left any fish

There was only a crab and the crane offered to take him to another pond

The crane took him to the place he took the fishes

The crab realized what had happened

And pinched the cranes neck off

The Crane

Week 15 Reading Notes, The Foolish Timid Rabbit

 The Foolish Timid Rabbit ,Ellen C. Babbitt

A rabbit has a coconut fall on his head and thinks the world is ending

A rabbit ran after him to find out what was wrong

He told him the world was breaking up

This continued until there were many rabbits all running together

This continued, with a deer, an elephant and more

a lion thought there must have been a mistake and roared 3 times to make them stop running

The lion asked who said the world was breaking up

The animals talked until they got to the original rabbitt

The lion asked the rabbit to take hime to the original spot he thought the earth was breaking up

The got to the tree and realized it was a coconut

Without the lion they might still be running

Rabbits

Week 13, Reading Notes, The Measure of Rice

 The Measure of Rice, Ellen C Babbitt

There was a dishonest king and an honest person who decided the prices of things

The king knew he could make more money with someone dishonest

so he fired the valuer and hired a peasant

The king was able to buy a bunch of horses for the value of rice

The horse-seller went to see the old valuer and asked what to do

The old valuer told him to bribe the new valuer

so he does just that

The valuer says his measure of rice is worth the kings whole city

both the valuer and the king are embarrassed

horses

Week 13 Reading Notes, The Elephant Girly-face

 The Elephant Girly Face, Ellen C. Babbit

There was king with an elephant named Girly Face

She was named this because she was nice and wouldn't hurt anyone

one night robbers came to break in and woke girly up

Girly hears the robbers say they should be merciless and kill anyone in their way

and Girly decides she shall also act this way

The next day Girly kills her caretaker

Girly face continues to act crazy

The king sends a wise man to find out whats wrong with her

He finds out about what the robbers said

So his diagnosis is to have good men say nice things around her

Girly listens to them and behaves nicely after that

Elephant

Reading Notes Part B, The Banyan Deer

The Banyan Deer, Ellen C. Babbitt

 There is a Gold Deer

He was the king of 500 deer

There were also monkey deer who had a king

That king liked killing and eating deer

The King always had townspeople come with him

and the other townspeople didn't like that because while they were gone no one did their work

the king wouldn't kill the deer kings though

the deer were being injured at high rates

so each day they started picking a deer to be slaughtered

One day a mother deer lost and it was her turn to be killed

The banyan deer king felt so bad he took her place

When the king came to hunt and saw the golden deer laying with his head on the block he was confusxed because he granted this deer his lofe

The banyan deer explained why he was there and the king thought it was so nice he decided to not kill any deer ever again

The Golden Deer

Reading Notes Part A, The Sandy Road

The Sandy Road , Ellen C Babbit

Merchant is going on a journey

He and his men stop and camp

They start to journey across the desert

On the last night they threw away their water bc they thought they would be there soon

The oxen took them the wrong way

The merchant goes to look for water for his men and for the oxen

He finds grass and thinks there must be water near

They dig but hit a rock

A man smashes the rock and water floods the well

The men and Oxen are saved

Ox

Reading Notes, Ramayan's Mahabarata Part D

 Ramayan's Mahabarata Part D, Laura Gibbs

Pg. 133

Duryodhana wants to take Krishna captive

Karna says he will only attack Ajuna in upcoming battle and spare the other 4 sons

Pg. 145

Arjuna is ready to fight

Krishna is in his cosmic form

Pg 151.

Karna agrees to fight

Pg 160.

Drona dies

Pg 162.

Arjuna kills Krishna

Pg. 167

There is talk of making Arjuna kinf

Pg 177.

Krishna'

s people die in a civil war

Krishna is killed by a hunter

Battle

Reading Notes, Narayan's Mahabharata part c

Narayan's Mahabharata Part C, Laura Gibbs

 pg. 85

Duryodana makes a royal camp near the Pandavas

Duryodana is captured then set free by the Pandavas

pg. 88

All of Yudisthiras brother's die because they drank from a lake without answering questions

This was a test by the God of death Yama

Pg. 93

Draupadi is raped

Draupadi is exiled for this

Pg. 99

Karna loses fight to Arjuna

Pg, 114

Uttara and Abhimanyu get married

Pg. 122

Gandhari says war is bad

world peace

Reading Notes, Narayan's Mahabharata part B

Narayan's Mahabharata part B

Narayans Mahabharata, Laura Gibbs

 Pg 41

Pandavas is still alive

Yudhishthira goes into exile and marries a new wife

Pg 47

Yudhishthira is made king of Indrapastha

Pg 50

Shakuni and Duryodhona decide to play dice to get revevnge on Pandavas.

Pg 55 

They play the first game of dice

Draupadi's husbands are freed

Pandavas leave with their posessions and in peace

Pg 66.

They play a second game and the Pandavas lose and go into exile.

Pg 76

Arjuna rejoind the Pandavas

dice

Reading Notes, Ramayana Part C

Ramayana Part C, Laura Gibbs

 101-110

Sugriva takes refuge on a hill that Vali cannot set foot on

Rama and Sugriva become allies, They want to defeat Vali and find Suma

They kill Vali

Sugriva is crowned King

They are looking for Sita

111-120

They find Sita on an island

121-130

Sita tells the monkey that Rama must come to her and she will not come to him (Queen $h!t)

131-140

Rama finds out Sita is alive

141-150

Rama and Sita are both still alive but have not reconnected

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