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At the 8th week in, we are now do the writing portion of our workshop. It started off with us reading our books to acquire notes for a big question we had. Now we are putting those notes into a presentation powerpoint and explaining what those had to do in relation to our big question. I have two key parts to explain for my big question. One is how ideals lead to a better future. And the other is how knowledge leads to a better future. For the ideas i can relate to the main character ( Santiago) and his idea of becoming a shepherd to travel. As for knowledge, the book speaks much about santiago wanting to learn this " universal language" and how to read omens. I have learned from this that the notes we took can really help us to remembering what things we wanted to talk about. For example i would have a hard time remembering that i was going to use santiago's conversation with his father as an example of ideas, when it was all the way back at page 9. After we do our slides, our end goal is to create another " this i believe" essay, except for a character in our books. I have learned that asking a simple question while you read can really help you understand and relate to the character more. This is because we have to keep track of what our character is feeling and doing and how to relate that to our big question.
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This having been the seventh week in the trimester means that we are focusing on reading our personal books for a one pager, reading our class books for reading workshop, taking notes of the book to answer our chosen question, and doing creative writing. For class I learned that not all notes have to be written down, they can be as simple as a photo. In this case we are taking photos of the pages in our books to take notes. We are taking photos of pages that we think is important to answering our big question. Another thing I have learned is that the more I read this author's text, the easier it is to read. It started out with just trying to understand the author by occasionally rereading parts of the books to get a better comprehension. Now it is far easier, I can just speed through ten pages within a handful of minutes. As for creative writing, I see that we can take a random beginning written by another and still be able to transform it into our own story. No matter what the story is, you can transform it into your own by adding on to the text. Another form of creative writing I found interesting was being able to branch off old and foggy memories by just writing " I remember" and saying what ever memory comes to mind.
http://www.twc.org/resources/lessons/i-remember-poems-from-poetry-everywhere/ For sixth and final week for the first marking period we revised and edited a final draft for some of our creative writing stories. And we picked out a question to think about that involves the power of story for our novels. The options of novels we could have picked involved, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Things Fall Apart, The Alchemist, and Siddhartha. I choose The Alchemist because i like the idea of leaving home and traveling to see the world around me. I feel that the the main character sounded quite relatable. As for my question to help me with character lens I decided on " How does knowledge and ideas lead to a better future?". I thought that this would be the most interesting question, we all worry about how we can have a better future. My creative final draft consisted of only one longer story. I picked the story that I thought was kind of funny to write. I picked the story of The Tomato Man.
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