In this blog post, I will be reflecting on how this semester has been going in my English 100 class. For this assignment, I had to read multiple texts that were assigned to me by my professor. They are, Reflective Writing, Genres in Academic Writing: Reflection, What is a Vlog?, How to Upload a Video to YouTube, How to Upload a Video to YouTube From your Phone , How to Embed a YouTube Video on Weebly Blog, YouTube Video Editor. After reading these texts, I now know more ways to write a reflection, and upload a Youtube video.
Throughout the first half of this course, I have found a new interest in the English language. The layout and style of this course has for sure helped with that. I have never taken an English class with such a “21st Century” approach. What I mean by this is that all of our grade work is done on our personal blogs. This is very new to me since the only English classes that I am familiar with all require a lot of hand written assignments. I believe that this is a great way to teach a class because it not only strays from the typical norm, but it also requires the students to become familiar with newer technology which will only helps us in the future. One of my favorite activities in this class so far was when we read Hills Like White Elephants (Ernest Hemingway). I not only enjoyed this story and all of it’s hidden meanings, but I really liked reading this short story because it really showed me how a scene should be written. Hemingway uses such good detail throughout the reading and paints such a picture in our minds of what is going on. Furthermore, after the reading, Prof. Mangini broke the whole story down for us and let us discover the hidden meanings in the reading. An example of this would be the connection between the beads on the doorway and the baby that the woman was pregnant. I was very impressed with the amount of symbolic detail that Ernest Hemingway was able to include in this story, because of him I now try to incorporate symbolic detail into some of my writing. Something else that has really stuck with me throughout this course was a reading from our week two assignment, our Writer’s Process Roundtable”. I really enjoyed this particular reading, Teach Writing as a Process Not a Product (Don Murray). I enjoyed this reading because after listening to what Don Murray had to say about teaching writing, I could only help but agree with everything that he said. One particular thing that was said is “Writing is the act of producing a first draft. It is the fastest part of the process, and the most frightening, for it is a commitment.” This really stood out to me because I have the natural tendency to think that all of my first drafts are garbage (most of them are). Don was really able to show me that there are other ways to teaching writing and not everyone has the same approach. The first eight weeks of this course have been great. I like all of the positive vibes that Prof. Mangini gives off not only in the classroom, but when correcting your work and in the blog comments. I look forward to progressing my writing even more in the second half of this semester. My three intrinsic goals for the rest of this semester are:
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Sabatino
10/25/2018 10:15:13 am
This post provides discussion about specific course texts, assignments, and personal processes of making meaning. I appreciate the use of specific quotes and ideas to frame your reflection. How did it feel to list three goals?
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