Week 12

This week we focused mainly on working on our group literary journals. We finalized who is doing what and decided to wait on our journal name until we decide what pieces of work we want for our journal. That is for the circles that is. The circles have about four main people in charge, who were specifically assigned to do the bio page, title page, table of contents page and a person who will decide the order of how the poems will go. As for the rest of us, we all will edit our authors work and decide Monday what pieces we want. I'm really enjoying how my group is working and getting along together. It also gives us a opportunity to get to know each others personalities as well. On Wednesday we did a in class writing activity that I thought was interesting. We were all given a sense and to quickly write about our sense in a 2 to 3 line sentence based of a scarecrow picture. It was something different and creative but I didn't like how fast we had to come up with our lines. Since I'm not that creative I prefer slow group work where we each read our own pieces then the group nicely criticize. Those kinds of exercises helps me notice things I normally wouldn't think of.

As each week passes we are to keep revising our works. It's been quite challenging to keep up with the revisions along with the blogs and class journals, but the 15 and 22 ways to revise has helped me alot. It's been hard to determine which work I think is good enough to revise four times for our final portfolio but I think I have came down to which piece I want. I'm excited to see the outcome of the class journals and can't wait to proceed working on them Monday!