Usefullness of Blogging

In the begining of the semester, I hated to blog. I thought it was a waste of my time and I didn't understand the reasoning behind it. After awhile though I realized that it really helped me out. I was able to address any of my concerns, talk about class activities, and form some of my thesis statements for my papers. It has been a way to interact with my teacher also. She is able to talk to me through it and vice versa. That way, the student and the teacher keeps in contact throughout the semester and not only in class. I would definately recommend blogging for other classes. Students will find it very helpful and some will see it as a way to relieve their stressors that are affecting their writing.

Tuesday's Editing

As we started off editing our literacy naratives with a partner, I found it highly benefiical. I think I found it so good because I had to read it aloud. I noticed that I had a lot of emotion and everything from that day came back to me. It really helped me to see my strengths and weaknesses in the paper. My partner gave me lots of feedback and really helped me out about my confidence in the paper. I didn't like how we edited our proposal papers as much. I find it hard for myself to read what I have wrote because of course I like the paper how it is and don't like to criticize it. In the end, I did find some mistakes and now know what to do. Hopefully, the comments on my RBAA paper will help me too. I liked this way. I finished writing my review over my classmates paper and I just hope that I get as much help as I gave him. They were different styles of editing and I liked that. It is nice to have a little bit of variety!

As the end of the semester arises

As we got told today, we only have 4 days of class left. I am totally freaked out. I have been revising a lot of my papers, but I just don't find them good enough to go into my final portfolio. I am nervous that as the weeks come closer, I won't have time to make the papers as good as I want them to be and I will get a bad grade on my portfolio. This weekend, my homework is working on revising all of my papers. I have really learned a lot throughout this class, so hopefully I can revise easier than I have been able to in the begining of the semester.
On a side note, I really enjoyed the peer editing today. For some reason, it was really beneficial for me to meet with someone doing the same paper as me. She was able to really help me with more ideas and saw what I was missing in my paper.

The Literacy Analysis Outline for 1st draft

I found that this outline was highly beneficial for me. I wrote down all of my information in the parts and from there on got to just type it all up. I had a lot of trouble though thinking my points for the body of my paper. I felt like all of my points kind of went together and that I was sometimes repetitive. Although, I really liked this knew system. Before, we didn't really have an outline so we had to just wing out rough draft. I feel that when I do that my ideas are scrambled and not put logically together. For me, this was a very beneficial outline to use.

Thesis

In "The Yellow Wallpaper," Charloote Perkins Gilman shows how women in the 1900s weren't understood and therefore were thrown into a deep mental state that leads them to insanity.

Literary Analysis Thesis

My thesis is coming from "The Yellow Wallpaper" and I am analyzing the wallpaper.

In Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper," the despriction of the wallpaper reflects not only Jane's mental state, but many other people in society and how easy it is to compare one's life to that of a non-humanistic object.

Reading critically

In class on Thursday, I really found analzing and re-reading the stories together helped me a lot. I have a tendency to read and not comprehend very well because I read too fast. I do however read and always highlight while reading. I found that really saves me a step. If I really would look at the literal meanings of words I would find a different meaning to every paper we have read in class. Although, I am afraid to do it on my own. I think I did pretty well on my own this weekend. It was so easy in class when others contributed their ideas to help me form my own, but doing it on my own is going to be a little tricky. I am just afraid that I am going to miss something. When I re-read the stories I tried to focus really hard and hopefully my analysis's were right. Learning to read critically will hopefully help me do better on my quizzes in class and also in my future classes.