These six weeks went by extremely fast. It feels like we just started, but we are actually halfway through the trimester. For pretty much this whole week, we had workshop time to continue our Unit 1 projects. I mainly used this time to finish reading my first short story, “Sonny’s Blues.” I enjoyed this story much more than I thought I would. I don’t really know why, but I have this skepticism about short stories. It just seems like a great piece of literature should be longer than six or seven pages, but that obviously isn’t true. Sonny’s Blues was a fantastic story, and I could easily see why it was used to show Characterization. Sonny and his brother both have deep story lines that shape who they are and what they do. After enjoying characterization so much, I’m excited to move on to Point of View. As the marking period ended this Friday, it meant that it was time to write our SSR book essays. I was worried about it all week because I always do very poorly with timed writings. This time was no different. In my general writing process, it takes almost an hour just to get all of my ideas out, and then another fair bit of time to go back for organization, so this forty minute assignment was difficult for me. I know that this is something that I will have to work on for the future. I think the next six week essay will be slightly better as I now have an idea of what to expect, but I know I will probably have to redo this past essay. Here is a link that describes the different kinds of Point of View that I will be looking at next week. http://users.humboldt.edu/tduckart/PoV.htm
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Josephine
10/25/2016 06:13:16 am
Hi Erica,
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