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Entry #1
Mar 6, 2015

I believe we have accomplished a lot on the first day of class. Firstly, we went over the syllabus and discussed briefly what we will accomplish from this class. After going over the syllabus, we took a quiz relating to Wikipedia. By taking the quiz, I became more familiar with how the Wikipedia works. Then we created an account for Wikipedia and also enrolled ourself in English class. since we became familiar with the Wikipedia, we moved on to create a user page and wrote briefly about ourselves. After creating the user page, we practiced how to cite information on Wikipedia and wrote the journal about what we have accomplished today.

Entry #2
Mar 13, 2015

During our last week class, I learned that in this class we will be editing Wikipedia to get involved in a community of smart, caring, helpful, and sophisticated people, not only that, we will also be able to keep all the information up to date and will help lots of people out there. Then we proceed on to learn about why we decided to study about Butler. After having enough knowledge about why we picked Butler, we discussed her novel, "Fledgling". Later we read the autobiography of Butler as it appeared on Wikipedia page then we discussed in groups of which information must be edited and which information were missing. Having discussed the information, our group members typed all of our points in our working area and then we post it on the talk page.

Entry#3
Mar 20, 2015

Even though the day itself was bit monotonous, nonetheless I enjoyed this class as always. I read an article about Octavia E Butler, which was really interesting. The article titled "Octavia Butler" basically tells us about her writing theme and her journey as a writer. Instead of focusing on only one theme, butlers work tend to explore multiple genres such as science, speculative, and feminist fiction. Having known about her career and her writing theme, we formed a group and then we discussed in groups of which information must be edited and which information were missing. Having discussed the information, our group members typed all of our points in our working area and then we post it on the talk page. In the end Proof. X made an announcement about our assignments that are due by midnight and the class was dismissed.

Entry#4
Mar 27, 2015

We did a lot of work today and I believe we have accomplished a lot. First we learned to differentiate between quote, summary, and paraphrasing. Then we took a quick break. After the break, we were divided into groups. I was in team no.5 and our job was to sort out the external links. We had to figure out if the links would help the readers and if it does help than which category it would fall into. After going over all the links in external links, we went over the suggested links that Prof.X gave us. After sorting out all the links, we moved on to create MLA citations for the selected works. Then we came together as a group and combined all of our in the google.doc. Then we wrote our daily journal and the class was dismissed.

Entry#5
Apr 17, 2015

As we came to class Prof. gave us a brief intro about what we will be doing today. After that, we were put into our old groups and had to continue the work we did last time. Prof.X gave comments on out team workspace and we had to follow the directions. First we divided the links among us. After dividing the links, we had to create MLA format citations for the links. After one hour of working on the links, we had a short break. After the break, we worked on the awards and honors, we searched for Octavia Butlers award that weren't on the Wikipedia page. After completing the citations and awards, our group got together and with the help of Prof.X we combined all of our work and put it up in the sandbox. Then we started to write our daily journal.

Entry #7
May 1, 2015 Our Prof gave us our paraphrasing quiz back and we discussed paraphrasing for a bit then we were paired in a group of two. My partner and I had to take a paraphrasing quiz in order to get more points. After taking the quiz, I had to complete my research assignment four. After reading and answering the questions we took a quick break. After the break, we were put into our old group. Then we had to go over Butler's Wikipedia page and had to decide whether to delete "themes and social criticism" which we decided should be deleted. Then we had to decide whether to remove the interview section, to which we decided to keep both of them. Then we had wrote our journal.

Entry #9
May 15, 2015

Today, we were introduced to Dr. Joy Sanchez. We discussed the main themes of Fledgling with her and Dr.X. After learning about the themes, we wrote a topic sentence for revising the vampire. After coming up with the topic sentence, we took a short break. After the break, we were split into group of six depending on the theme we chose. We chose to work on Reception. For the reception section, We had to go to certain links and read the reviews about Fledgling. Then we typed the reception in our workspace and we signed in the end. Then we discussed our assignment and the class was dismissed.

Entry #10
May 22, 2015

Today we were put into group of two and had to work on the assigned topic. My partner and I had to work on the second draft of "Difference as a means of survival." In our team work space, Professor gave us instruction of things she expects us to complete. We copied our work in M.S word and had to paraphrase three paragraphs. We worked together on paraphrasing the paragraphs. After Paraphrasing the whole thing. We put it back into our team work space. We had to print our work and was given to other teams to revise it. After making revisions on the paper, my team put it on the sandbox. Than we revised the paper of other team. After revising, the prof. announced out assignment and the class was dismissed.

Chapter 1-6
The protagonist of the story finds herself waking up in a dark cave, injured, starving, and unaware of her situation. Being unable to control her hunger, she kills an animal to feed herself which later turns out to be a man who had come looking for her. After feeding herself, the protagonist starts her journey and later comes across a ruined place. She feels very familiar with the place yet she doesn't remember anything. As she proceeds through her journey, she is stopped by a stranger who is willing to help her. During their ride, the stranger introduces himself as Wright Hamlin. The protagonist bites his neck and sucks blood from him, which gives him a strange pleasure that makes him want to keep her with him. Wright later names the protagonist Renee, meaning reborn. On the same evening she drinks blood from five more people including a woman named Theodora. Wright asks many questions of Renee and the more question he asks, the more she starts to remember about herself. However, she keeps on having a feeling that she is somehow related to the ruined place she came across. Wright decides to take her back to the place. As they reaches the place, Renee starts to sense a strong sent of a person of her kind but than she sense another sent, a fresh one, of a normal person. As she goes back to check on Wright, she finds a guy pointing a gun towards Wright. While saving Wright, she gets shot on her leg. She decides to stay back in the forest to avoid harming anyone. She asks questions from the gunman about his presence over there and why he decided to shot Wright. Renee later finds out that a man of her kind has ordered the gunman to guard the place.

Chapter 7-15
Knowing that someone of her kind has been anticipating for her, Renee and Wright decides to go back to the place. At the ruined place, Renee meets a man of her kind named Iosif. Iosif turns out to be Renee's father and from him she learns that her real name is Shori and that she is actually fifty-three years old. He tells her that She is a vampire and that they call themselves "Ina". From Iosif, Shori learns that the ruined place was once a home for Shori and her female family. Iosif than takes Shori and Wright to his community, where Shori's male family resides. At Iosifs community Shori is introduced to Stefan- Shoris youngest brother- and many of there symbionts including a women named Brook- Iosifs symbionts, and Celia- Stefan's symbionts. After gaining more information about herself and her family, Shori and wright decides to go back to Wrights place and than move in to Iosifs community permanently after a week. During their stay at Wrights place, Shori goes to meet Theodora to ask her if she is willing to be Shoris symbionts and Theodora willingly accepts the offer. On Friday, as Shori and Wright waits for iosif and his people to come and pick them up, no one shows up. shori and wright goes to check Iosifs community and finds out that the community has been destroyed in the same way as there female families community. Brook and Celia were the only survivor since they were out when the attack occurred. Having no one ask for any information, Shori and the symbionts decides to go and stay at Iosifs guesthouse at Arlington. The attacker manages to find them tries to burn the house down, but Shori senses the attacker and attacks them before they could harm her and her symbionts. The group decides not to stop at one place for long time so that the attackers wont find them. Brook remembers an Ina family named Gordon therefore they decide to go to the Gordon family to ask for help since they don’t have enough money to survive by themselves. The head of the Gordon family-Preston Gordon- welcomes Shori and her symbionts and lets them stay at the guesthouse. At Gordon’s community, Shori finds herself another symbiont named Joel. She later sends Gordon to fetch Theodora

Chapter 16-21
It was after ten in the morning when Shori senses the attacker approaching towards them. She immediately orders the Symbionts to wrap their Ina in the blanket and move them to a safer place. The other symbionts and Shori fights back with the attackers, they manage to keep three of them alive including a guy named Victor Colon. Later in the evening, Gordon interrogates the attackers about the reasons for attacking Shori's family. From them, the Gordon’s learn that they were sent by the Silk family (another group of Ina family). Victor tells them that there were about 23 attackers involved in attacking Shori’s family and there were about eighteen left when they came to attack the Gordon’s. After a couple of nights, Shori asks Daniel if there were and Ina book and to her surprise, she realizes that she can read and write Ina language. After confirming that the silk family had sent the attackers to attack Shori and anyone related to her, Preston Gordon (head of the Gordon's family) calls the silk family and decides to hold a counsel of judgment. Before holding the council of judgment, the Gordon’s have to satisfy the "rule of seven" where they have to call seven families who share common ancestor with both shories family and the Silk family. The night before the council of judgment, lots of Ina family arrives at Punta Nubalda with their symbionts. The first night of the council of judgement will begin at nine in the evening.

Chapter 21-26
During the first council of judgement, Shori meets alot

My Impression of Octavia Butler
At the age of three, Octavia Butler lived with her mother at their employer’s house. Even though there were many people living in that house, she was particularly interested in a dog-named Baba. She would look at his eyes and observe them carefully. At the age of seven she went to zoo for the first time with class. There she saw chimp’s eyes for the first time, which she describes as unhappy and depressing. Other students threw peanuts at the chimps and made fun of him. From that experience Butler learned to hate cages with bars. Since when she was barely 3 she realized that instead of learning about normal things, it is much more interesting to discover what others are and what they are interested in.

Butler was a shy girl and didn't like interacting with others much. Even though her mother worked as a maid, but she knew about the importance of book and education thus her mother brought any books the she found in the trash. Butler’s strong obsession in writing helped her to peruse a career in the world of writing. Even though people from same race and people from her neighborhood believed that writing career was not meant for black people- specially the sci-fi story. Most of Butler’s stories were rejected at her early age; nonetheless she continued to write because of her positive obsession in writing. She sold her first two short stories when she was twenty-three. One of the stories was later published and thus she sold her first novel. Butler then started to write fiction and fantasy for a living.

Butler Aha! moment

Positive Obsession

citation practice
Encyclopedia Science Fiction

Birth of a writer