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Citation Practice
Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Birtth by Sleep

Entree #1
On March 6, 2015 our ENG103 class learned how to use wiki. We learned the format of wiki, and how to create entrees. We went over the course set up, and grades. The experience of writing on wiki is almost like writing on a forum, except on a forum you can delete the post you put up and not here on wiki. By taking a test that our professor had on our black board, we were able to test our ability to understand the way wiki works.

Entree #2
Today March 13, 2015 we are learning about sub-sections, and more about fledgling and vampires.

Entrees #3 and #4
Today March 20, 2015 we learned more on Fledgling, and Octavia E. Butler. We laid out the specific themes through the story, and as her general themes in writing. We also discussed the chapter 1-6 on Fledgling. We talked about wither or not if people in the class would like to sign a letter to a photographer to get some picture of Octavia Butler.

Entree #5
Today March 27, 2015 we broke up into teams of five to work on Octavia E. Butler wiki page. Our team 5 had to work on the "hardest piece" to sort out. As team leader I seperated my four man team into twos for works, and awards - to added sections,s and external links. besides those we aided other teams with their work, while we worked on our own in a way.

Entree # 6
Today April 17, 2015 we fixed up our drafts for the Octavia Butler page. We had to approve or reject Dr.X's edits. Created MLA style formats for the links, and added them to our team sandbox. Took up the original edits from the current wiki page on Octavia Butler, and re-edited them to our version. In total we fixed up: the external links, the selected works, and the awards.

Entree # 7
Today April 24, 2015 we edited the other works from team 2, and 3. I set up our team 5 work on Octavia E Butler pagee under external links, selected works, and honors. After that I wrote quotes related to Octavia Butler under our teams sandbox. I'm the first one in class to edits the wiki.

Entree # 8
Today May 1, 2015 we took an extra credit opportunity to gain points by doing a " ultimate paraphrasing test ". We had a group decision on moving or keeping certain items on the Octavia. E Butler page. I got back my paraphrasing quiz back, and not all too excited about it. I will be working on the extra credit soon, hopefully. Now working by order by section, already with most of our we are on stand-by for everyone els to finish in order to post our last section.

Entree # 9
Today May 8, 2015 We formed a groups for theme presentations. We took some time to discuss binary thinking.

Entree # 10
Today May 15, 2015 we had a discussion with our guest speaker Dr. Talyor on Fledgling. We formed out editing groups to create our sections.

Chapters 1 - 6
In the beginning of the story I had assumed that this was a post civil war type of story, with all of her hunger, and places she landed in. When there was a car I questioned the tome period. "oh this maybe a modern day setting." to my opinion. She kept on yearning for food, and human contact. She ended up getting both, meeting the first person in a three day span of her awakening from a dark cave. "Oh a kind pedestrian helping a lost child in the middle of a dark road....huh....". I had my suspicion that there would have been something that may have peeked my interest, and it did. (more edits later)

Chapter 7 - 15
After my " Interests " got peeked they began to do some research. Renee began on exploring on the last place she was at. Going back to the burned area with Wright with him almost getting shot. She discovered that she accidentally killed a man thinking he was an animal back in the first chapter. The man who almost shit Wright was influenced by another vampire. The came back a few days later and found a helicopter landing, It was her father Iosif. They went with her father into the helicopter, and meet up with the rest of the family. There he explained what she, and they were. Simply they are vampire, but they are called " Ina " who are almost " Evolved from Humans " There Shori " Renee" who now gained her old name meet several members of her family, and their symbionts. They left the territory that the clan owned, and returned to Wright's home so they can think. After thinking they decided to pack up and move in; Shori decided to bring her other symbiont Theodora, but she was to wait until they were ready to take heer with them. Wright, and Shori went back to the terriory to find the clansmen dead, and found only two surviving symbionts, who were away from the territory when it occured.

My Impression of Octavia Butler
From reading Rowell's interview with Butler I can see that she was a woman that takes stories with her. The story of her mother and her grandmother was one that she had to research. The experiences that she learned from her mother, she took them and implemented them into her book "Wild Seed". When she went to college at Pasadena City College, the black nationalist movement was underway with many youths. She took something that she heard one man say and used it in her book "Kindred". She takes the time to reflect on how her life would have been different if her siblings had survived. She wonders how her life would have been different if her mother had continued her education. Octavia Butler is a writer who takes the stories of life and use them to create realistic stories, that match how accurate the way people would have been.