TLetizia SP22 618 Blog

 There is so much I have learned throughout this course and I truly believe that this blog helped me remember everything I learned. It was very nice being able to write my thoughts, ideas and new learnings down in my blog for me to go back and look at. I really enjoyed being able to reflect on what I have learned as well. I am someone who needs to write everything down to really understand what I learned or just to help me collect my thoughts so this has helped a whole lot for me.  I believe that I have reached all of the learning outcomes of this course on page 1 of the syllabus. The blog definitely helped and contributed a lot to my learning outcomes as well. As far as the role of purpose of audience in writing, this helped me a lot while writing my blog. I knew I was writing to my classmates as well as you (Dr. Jones). I was able to shift my thoughts and writing to write to the people I knew were going to be reading my blogs. I also think that the genre workshop has helped ...

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...