For creating my poem the first step I did was create a brainstorm pager were all I did was write down everything from the interview. Before I started writing the poem I knew I wanted to use my own format; I wanted to make it abstract yet personable. In this poem I wanted to keep my subjects identity hidden, because I knew if I started with his name others would make bias decisions. I also made multiple first drafts and tried out different styles before I choose my style.
I found the interview very necessary, because I was allowed to ask my interview-y specific questions about his life and ask what he wanted to hear in a poem. I did take some life events an insert them in his poem; I did this so when he would read it he would know that I was listening. I did however had to conduct multiply interviews so I could make his poem more "him". My first few drafts were a little to abstract and to broad. I was using some senses but not all. Making bullet points during the interview really helped; when I revisited my notebook and saw all my quick notes it jogged my memories. I would defiantly take my notebook to another interview. In the end I also took my poem completely apart, line by line, and I changed the lines that were not specific. I think that method really improved my overall poem. The most helpful feed back I got was when Dr. P and Javier looked at my poem and told me everything they did and didn't like. Dr. P really opened my eyes to how broad my lines were and that helped me take a step back and revise. I also loved when we were forced to change poems with are partners and have them read annotate it. So, my partner read the poem and each line had to be highlighted in a color that meant something. For example, green meant he liked it, blue meant it didn't really sound like him, and pink for it could be multiply people. I liked this way of revision because I really got to see what my partner thought if his poem.
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So this week we did many writing task, activities and assignments. On Monday we were given a picture to dissect and write about; in the picture there was a group of Native Americans on horses. From this picture we had to create a story and describe what connections we could make. We did a very similar job with a picture from Wednesday, I think doing this assignments makes us recognize that we as people are constantly making connections and predictions. In my old reading class we would read a few chapters in class and then read another one at home. We would then discuss what has happened and what symbolism is behind each action. So, having class discussions remind me of what I used to do.
On Tuesday we had a sercratic seminar on an article about multitasking, and this whole article really pushed my thinking about multitasking. I am know officially scared to multitask; most points in the article help much value to me. A struggle that I had during the seminar is that I agreed with all the points brought up in the sercratic seminar, but I didn't want to agree with the other students because I wanted an interesting discussion. Something I would do different is defiantly read the other article with different point of views, so when I bring up a controversial thought I have more evidence. Something that is still challenging to me is the Google Classroom. It is not a surprise to me because I am not the best with new websites and applications for electronics. However, that just means that I have to pay more attention to the details and keep thinking. Sometimes I am just in auto pilot and I do write down in my agenda but I don't write to check down Google Classroom. I do know that I will not make the same mistakes again though. |
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