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I feel like I had a very well understanding of all the genres before going into the genre expert workshops. There are two genres I feel like I learned so much more about than I already knew after these workshops. The first one I want to talk about is the narrative genre. At first, I thought I knew everything I needed to but clearly I did not. The one thing I really had no idea about is the 3 different 3rd person. The one I found the most intriguing is the third person objective. There are so many stories that I made out to be written like films and the mentor text I grabbed in this workshop actually was this third person. The different types of activities with this genre really helped my learning as well. I really enjoyed the drawing of the setting and drawing the characters. I also liked being able to just see the different types of books everyone had and how all settings, plots, characters, and point of views were all so different from one another. I really enjoyed this workshop and ...

 Well here it is! The poetry week which is what I am presenting in for my genre expert presentation. So needless to say, I LOVED everything about Tompkins this week. I am a poetry fanatic whether I'm reading it or writing it, I just love it.  The best thing about poetry is it can have any mood you want, poems can be happy, sad, scary, etc. They can make you feel any way the poet wants you to feel. They can also have messages that aren't hidden or they can have very deep secretive messages that you can only figure out if you dissect the whole poem. This is why poetry is so fun! There is just so much you can do with it.  Poems can rhyme or they can tell a story, they can just be one word a stanza or full sentences. It's almost as if it's a free for all. Another thing that is so fun about poetry are all the different types of poetic devices. We have alliteration, which is using the same beginning letter throughout the whole poem. We also have repetition where some phrases ...

 As I was looking through all of my peers blogs, Sam S's blog really stood out to me. Not only is her layout so organized and pretty but I could read her blogs for HOUR. I really enjoy the pictures she chooses to add to her blogs to emphasize her thoughts.  As I was reading through Sam's posts, a few blogs caught my eye. One I really really REALLY enjoyed reading though was her second entry. She does such an amazing job making connections to her past in this blog! She wrote this blog as if it was a story and I really loved how she told it. She put a lot of her own thoughts at the time in there too which I really enjoyed and thought was extremely comical.  She connected "good writing instruction" to a project that she had to do in second grade. First I am amazed that she remembered so far back but secondly I love that she was able to find an event in her life that was able to connect with the reading as well as the writing process. We never realize how much we've u...

 I really enjoyed reading the different elements of narrative in Tompkins (2012) for this week. I have learned these through elementary school but being able to have a review on them was very refreshing. There were actually somethings that I truthfully never knew and I was actually very shocked. For example, I knew of third person and how it could be omniscient but I have never heard of objective. I thought it was really cool getting to learn about the different types of point of views especially the three different branches of third person, the one I really loved though was objective (p. 182). I don't know why but it really stood out to me because I feel like a lot of the books I have recently read for my students in UPK have been objective. It's where it kind of just seems like you are watching a film. We have read a lot of folktales and I would say the Three Little Pigs was definitely a book where it is more of an objective third person than anything. Another thing I believe...

 As I was looking through all of my peers blogs, the one that stuck out to me the most was Brenna's. First and foremost, I just want to mention I love her cute little layout with the flowers, it really sets a sweet vibe. I just want to really "bless" or praise her for her blog posts. I read through all of them and I thought she really dug deep with every response she gave. She even talks about her in own experience in her first grade classroom to refer to when making connections to the readings and topics.  The one blog post I would like to talk about her blog post #2. This post was written so well and I really enjoyed reading her connections as both a learner and a teacher. I enjoy the enthusiasm she uses and how she writes like she is having a conversation with someone. I also liked how she added her own side notes/thoughts in when she was explaining her experience, for example " I remember being especially proud of this writing piece because I had worked on it for...

 One of the readings that I enjoyed was "Letter Writing" by Tompkins. This was something that I really enjoyed reading about because there are some things that are considered letters that I would've never have thought would be. Even an email to someone is considered a type of letter which is something I never thought of before.  I also enjoyed learning about the different types of letters based on the audiences. There are courtesy letters which are thank you notes or can be invitations. Another letter would be a pen pal letter to obviously your pen pal, this can be formal or informal but usually is informal.  Some other letters are friendly letters, such as a letter that you would write to a friend to tell them some news or ask questions and then encouraging them to write you back after. I used to write letters back and forth when I was little to my step cousin that was my age. She didn't have a phone so we wrote letters back and forth and I thought it was always exci...