Blog Entry #12

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 learning more about this genre. I also was able to get some insight on some activities on how I may be able to teach my students about the narrative genre.

The second genre that I feel like I learned a lot about was the letter genre. I learned a whole lot about this including what the different types of writings would be considered a letter. I never thought an email could be considered a letter and that there were different types of letters. I thought a letter was just a letter and that was all there is to it. I realized I have written all different types of letters, my cover letters for jobs are business/formal letters. The letters I used to write to my penpal in school and to my step cousin were friendly letters. I also really enjoyed writing a letter to one of our classmates at the end of class.

Each of these genre workshops have taught so much and I learned so much more than I already knew about these genres. I think it is crazy that I have been learning about these genres since elementary school and I am in grad school still learning more about them. I guess it's true that the learning process never stops, it doesn't matter when you learned something or how much you thought you knew about something.