This week, a rough draft was due for the elements of fiction project. My group chose characterization, and symbolism as the elements of fiction to study. I was absent on Friday, which made organization of the project with my group a bit of a struggle considering we had not started the essays yet. I know a weakness of mine is group work, as I am used to doing all my work independently, not talking to anyone. I hope these kinds of assignments will help with my inexperience with group projects, and all the aspects of work that come with that. Creating an essay as a group is especially difficult because an essay needs a strong purpose, and if not everyone is in full agreement of that purpose, the essay will feel disconnected. I'm not sure how much time will be given this coming week for revisions, but I ended up leaving my part of the essay with lots of comments with potential for edits because I remember Ben saying that only a rough draft was the goal for this week. I also found that the argument planner (see image) did not help all that much other than to figure out what symbols I wanted to focus on. Not related to this week specifically, but I have noticed a gradual decline in the quality of my blog posts, and I believe much of the class would agree. I think this is due to lack of content. I really enjoy the idea of forcing meta cognitive thinking with these blog posts, but one week seems too short a time frame. I feel that not enough happens to warrant a post for every week. However, there is also the problem of remembering. If blog posts were due with longer gaps, maybe every month, than remembering what happened that long ago would be a struggle, and much of it would probably be lost.
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Compression with symbolism
Editing This week, we turned in our creative writing that we had been working on the whole year so far. I had a lot of garbage, and not a lot of writing I was happy with. It is quite difficult for me to come up with interesting ideas for stories, or how to use the prompts well. In the literature aspects project, I have read the tell tale heart, and have begun working on a big question of sorts. I feel like this project is moving extremely slowly, as we only get a little bit of time per class to work on it. I mentioned this in my creative writing also, but maybe we should devote more time to the project in class. PoW revisions.
Editing creative writing. Most of this week was focusing on revisions. One thing we tried to make better in class was the Poem of the Week essays we wrote last week. Looking at them as a reader, making comments, and generally thinking of ways to better them. Another thing we revised this week in class were the creative writings we have been doing since the start of the year. Instead of writing, we did editing. We were to chose a piece to focus on and edit it. I chose the one syllable writing prompt I had done. Most of my edits were making small sentence changes. I did a lot of switching word choice, including a lot of synonym searches. We also began a project connecting pieces of literature such as characterization, symbolism, humor etc. Choosing 2 topics, groups read related short stories and compare how each short story used the element of literature differently, or similarly. Specifically, this week I read "A tell tale heart" as an example of symbolism. I had read this before, but so long ago that I didn't realize that I had. It was defiantly worth reading again, as it a great short story, and a great example of symbolism. |