In my final blog post for this class I am going to be explaining some of the main take aways I am going to have. I have never enjoyed an English class more and am grateful to have had this class.
Before the beginning of this class, I wanted nothing to with writing. In high school, I always struggled in all of my English classes and found it so hard to get a decent grade on a paper. Throughout this class, I found that writing shouldn’t be forced in a way that would make me dread doing it. My professor this semester motivated us into slowly starting a writing process. I completed two formal assignments and dove into new ways of writing. Some new writing styles I worked on were reflection, composing scenes, and found poetry. Towards the beginning of this class, the main focus was conducting a scene. We wrote about scenes in the present, past, and even did a counterfactual part that changed the way our scenes played out. One informal assignment that I really enjoy was adding a counterfactual element to the story The Yellow Wallpaperwritten by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. We read the story then added a decision into it that changed how the how rest of the scene played out. I believe my descriptive writing has improved a lot considering I never used it prior to this course. I have learned a lot over the past couple of months and had fun doing it. In this class, I enjoyed our in-class discussions the most because no one was judgmental, and everyone had something interesting to say. I will have a lot I am going to take away from having this class but mostly I learned that writing isn’t a chore and now I enjoy doing it. I have started writing in a journal every night to make sure I don’t lose what I learned from this class.
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12/9/2018 07:47:20 pm
Great post! How has doing the daily journal effected your everyday life as far as school? I think that is awesome that you started that based on this class, GOOD FOR YOU!
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Soumiya
12/10/2018 08:48:13 pm
The Yellow Wallpaper was my favorite too Erin!! I loved re-writing the scene and the original story. It felt so mysterious and seemed so dark-like. Yours was definitely one of my favorite works to read about because there were such cool stories and so fun watching your video of you singing. I enjoyed the class and being your classmate!
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