This week we furthered our knowledge on tragedy with a sneak peek into Antigone. We were able to review our old poem of the week essays in class, which we were all very great full for. I learned that my rough drafts are not too terrible but I can be much better and have a long way to go before taking the AP test in May. We were introduced to our author study projects, and I can admit I am both excited and nervous to be completing a letter to be reviewed from the library of congress. We watched a TED talk that was very thought provoking. It was about how some decisions that we make are already made for us. This TED talk can be related to tragedy because so many people are potentially being taken advantage of it and they di nit even know it. I may have even messed up on a major decision sometime in my life due to how society has told me to decide. This to me was a crazy thought and highlighted the theme for this week. I am also happy to hear that our creative writing project for this marking period will just be our various creative writings in list form instead of having to go through and revise them and submit an analysis and correction explanation essay. The main purpose of the week was to prepare us for the end of the tri/next week’s requirements. The main education points applicable to litterateur was how to revise more efficiently and effectively. Also we furthered our studies on tragedy while talking about Oedipus.
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This week, we mainly learned about how to revise, wisely and efficiently. We also learned how to write and balance life as well. We also kept with the theme of analyzing and writing about poems. Our large focus was on revise and editing though. This week we went into our creative writing form this marking period and analyzed all of them and chose two to revise and edit. I learned that I may be good at writing plots for stories, but also that I am not the best at painting a picture in the readers mind. I focused my revising and making clear, vivid images that the reader can put together in their minds. I do this so they could not only understand the sequence of the story, but so they could also see, smell, or touch it. Increasing my knowledge on this subject was gratefully helped when we brought in an author who has written a decent number of books, which people seem to like. He not only helped with the revising lessons, but he helped with how to balance life when writing or just working. He explained that you should not edit your work until you leave it to “age” for a day or two, so that you have a fresh mind when you look at it again. He also explained that running your work though a bunch of people, and listening to their feedback, it can help greatly. The author was James Jackson and his good reads profile can be found here: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5444962.James_Jackson. James also explained that he gets in a routine where he writes 4 hours a day. He also explained that if he ever runs into writer’s bloc, he will watch a video or play a game until he is ready to write again. I learned to split my time into what matters and still include time to work. He reminded us to have fun with friends and that sometimes work can wait, because life goes by and we don’t want to miss it. This week was a major help to me because I now know how to be more efficient and non-biased in my editing and revising, and I also am better at balancing life after that presentation and the class periods throughout the week. My major outtakes from this week involve poetry and improvement on my sensory skills. With the introduction of our creative writing essay in the middle of the week, I took a good look at my previous writings to find what i could expand upon and truly make better. I first looked at my ability to just be creative, or to recall a plot, and found that I was exceptional at that. I then focused on the bad and found that i don’t really paint a picture all that well. I decided to insert better imagery words along into my stories so the reader may feel immersed and see my memory instead of having to imagine their own setting, where the memory did not actually happen. I really focused in on the way the poet Ross gay used imagery with his button shirt poem. Which can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O57q5xbLTg4&feature=youtu.be&t=20m44s. I understand that this poem is metaphorical and has a deeper meaning just like many other poems, but when listening to Ross Gay, he leaves little to the imagination. He uses many descriptive words and phrases. I tried to incorporate that into my writing, and described a mountain side where the sky was golden, and orange, just like the fall. I told of the wind, which was warm, but thin, and how it smelled pine. I spoke of how the massive lake superior surrounded us on all sides but one. And how the side it did not cover went for miles and miles of rolling hills. I believe that through this the reader can get a sense of the sights i had saw and have a reaction emotionally to how i had felt in that moment. Through the imagry found in Ross Gay’s poetry, i was able to reflect on my own writing and was inspired to paint a detailed picture for the reader. That is what i learned this week. The main thing that i have learned this week is how varied a story is from a piece of literature. I have always seen a book as a book and that the only thing separating them from each other was the category of write (fiction, non fiction, mystery, kids, young adult, classic act.). I never had a clue that the there was a deeper separation of books and that is though how characters are developed and plot is scrutinized. I have read many stories about heroes that go onto a long quest and complete different objectives and eventually succeed in whatever they wanted. Most of those stories as I now think of it were of a younger reading level. The books I read now that are considered literature often have a protagonist, let's call him a hero, and some type of hard challenge. The challenge is introduced early on and you might think the book will lead the hero to success by winning the end objective. Often times in these literature books that are based around a hero will explain in depth, that the hero has some type of major flaw, and then throughout his fight to find and complete his objective, he realizes that his true quest is to fix his flaw our accept he has it. The reader will become more immersed in the hero as a character, than the actual simple plot. The reader can take many things from a writing of literature. Usually it's a lesson, maybe about how he or she can better their lives from learning from the character. Both are important to writing , but literature goes a bit deeper. |
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