This week, we made attempts to edit the poem of the week essays we wrote. The essays that we took 40 minutes in class to write was very unfinished, but I still struggle to edit. I think my problem with editing is that I don't want to delete from what I have been saying, but I also know I could say it better. The solution seems to be to attempt a rewrite of the part, keeping it there, and deleting the one I like more however, this strategy feels much like rewriting a first draft rather than revising for a final draft. In the end, I didn't really make many edits to my piece at all. Recently, in class we have been focusing on writing tragedy blogs, and haven't done these reflective blogs because of that. This week I was only in class for three days, so rather than talk about just this week, I can reflect on the unit that we are doing on tragedy as a whole. Initially, I thought that a unit on tragedy would be too basic; that I already had an idea of what made a tragedy, and to an extent, I think that my original idea is still true. We have defined specific archetypes that occur to make a tragedy relatable, and read a few examples of stories that follow these archetypes. Working with these texts have been interesting, but I don't think the idea of what a tragedy is was new to me. The amount of revisions I have made so far... :(
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