Thlog #8

Although I was only in class for one of the days this week, unfortunately, I thought that I learned a lot of material. I thought it was interesting learning about how the rest of the quarter is going to be set up. I really like that for the portfolio we will be able to edit our work and learn from our mistake. In writing classes especially, I think the best way to learn is learning by doing. This course is no exception. Everything that we have learned so far through all the journals and interactive activities really bring light to the material that we are learning. As far as yesterday went, I enjoyed the summarizing activity that we did for the last reading assignment. I liked hearing Zack's more professional summary and seeing how someone who has studied writing for a long time would pick out of the subject. It was interesting to see what my classmates had to say as well. I also enjoyed talking in depth about WP3. I like the assignment a lot. In the beginning of high school I did a similar assignment when I was reading To Kill A Mockingbird in my honors English class. We were supposed to create a different medium to share the story in a way that would be appealing to other people our own age. I decided to make a Facebook page that would share the story and made accounts for the different characters to comment on different posts to give more depth to the material. It was one of my favorite projects to this day and I hope to be doing something as creative and similar for this assignment. I think the trickiest part of the assignment is going to stem from the specificity of the articles. While we are learning about writing and should have a lot to say about it, I feel like I may feel limited in my creativity but I am excited to see what I come up with!