As I progress through the year, I continuously feel that the area in English that I need the most work on is writing, and even more specifically clarifying my thoughts and formulating an effective opener. Maybe the issue with clarifying my ideas is that I am both my worst and best critic. I hold myself to high expectations, but then when editing I am too easy on myself and I miss many opportunities for improvement things. Sometimes I have a difficult time letting go of what I believe is a really creative introduction that doesn’t necessarily have perfect relevance. More frequently though, I find that for my opener, it comes out with a mystifying tone and overall feels forced.
Something else that I’ve discovered is that I prefer to demonstrate understanding and creativity in a theatrical way or with a presentation rather than with prose writing. I enjoy the interactions with other people that projects offer and like to test my comfort limits by presenting. So far this year, the King Lear skits have been my favorite assignment because it suited my preferences. I want to start to enjoy prose writing but I don’t how to start to have fun with it, especially when it is an assignment.
But, I have always enjoyed both reading and writing poetry. As I was doing Tuesday night’s homework I discovered that many of the poems have effective rhyming. I know that when I have written poetry, I have also done free verse writing because then I could just divide the words and organize and phrase the words where they seem to naturally fall. Whenever I have tried to rhyme it has always felt forced and it seems to break up the natural rhythm and flow of the poem. One thing that I really want to get out of this poetry unit is how to rhyme effective because when used effective rhyme is an incredibly powerful tool.
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
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