For this blog post I’m going to write another reflection. In a previous post I wrote my midterm reflection. This time I’m writing my final reflection. To help me write this, I went and looked back at everything I have done in this class.
Coming into this class I was expecting the same thing as other english classes I have taken. I expected we were gonna read old books, and write about them. Instead, in this class I was able to do things I had never done before. The things I got to do in this class include making a website, writing scenes and being my own guinea pig. The first ever thing I got to do in this class was make my own website. This was an exciting experience for me as prior to this, I had never made a website. It was also exciting because it served as an online portfolio for all of my work. This means that in 50 years, I can come back and look at what I’ve done. The three main things on my website include my narrative project, my research project, and the blogs I made about them. My first ever project in this class was my narrative project. For this project I had to write about a scene in my life that had a big impact on me. In this class I learned that to make a scene, I have to use sensory details, dialogue, and symbols. To practice this, I used my blog to write scenes. In my blog posts I wrote scenes including me going to walmart, riding a bus, giving a presentation, and more. I liked this because although I’ve read scenes in many books before, I had never wrote a proper scene myself. That was one of my projects. The other project on my website is my research project. For this project I was introduced to the “three good things” gratitude process. For the project I had to write a paper on whether or not the process improved my well being. In order to do this I had to experiment on myself, doing something I had never done before, and that is being my own guinea pig. I used my blog to practice writing about this project as well. I practiced writing all the sections of the paper on my blog. Those were the projects I experienced and put on my website. Something I said before was that I appreciated that this class allowed me to do things I had never done before. There are two other things. One of them is that I like and appreciate that everything I had to do in this class was centered around me. I was the main character in every project and blog post I wrote. For the narrative project, I wrote a scene that was about my life. I was the star of every scene I wrote in my blog post. For the research project I didn’t have to research some famous person, place, or event in history, I had to do research on me. That is something I’m grateful for. The other thing I’m grateful for is the final exam. I’m grateful that there was no final exam. In most of my classes I have been taught something and then tested on it. In this class, instead of being tested on what I learned, I was able to apply what I learned in projects and blog posts. Those were my experiences in this class.
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