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Halfway There :)

 


    Today we started week 8 of the semester and it is absolutely mind blowing. I can't believe we are already on week 8. But let's dive deep in what we have done so far in this class. The first couple of weeks it was easing into writing and talking and discussing information about writing. We did About Me and wrote about ourselves in a short discussion where we commented on classmates in Canvas. Then we started to talk about our Blogs and how to make it pleasing to the human eye. After we did some changes and discussions and reading about our blogs we did our first blog post. Our first blog post was a bigger, more in depth description about who we are. We read Chapter 1 in our books and did some reflection about the difference in writing in high school and college. That was the first couple of weeks in the semester.

    Then we went onto the very different yet intriguing Microthemes. Our Microthemes we discussed a lot in class and went over before and after pieces. We were shown what to do and what not to do. We got guided in the right direction of how to write it correctly. We got to submit a rough draft to see how we did overall and got comments on how to fix and change certain areas or sentences. We then did some class overview to have our peers read them and talk them over with us. Then we finally got to the final part of having to submit the final draft of our Microtheme. Which was very nerve racking, but writing a Microtheme was such a new learning curve that I loved to do and see the changes from how it was before I did anything and truly knew if I was 100% right or not. To then submit a draft that I saw such significant beneficial changes.  

    We are finally caught up to current day to where last week we discussed our documentaries to the class and what they were about and how we felt about them. We had to answer the questions and review and get out all of our feelings and emotions about how strongly we felt so we can begin our summaries. We submitted the first draft of our summaries today. I don't know how to feel about it but I think it was overall very helpful doing the questions about how we felt before we wrote a summary. Of course every week we also have to do our blogs and talk about certain topics, things we did in class, our work, etc. To conclude, happy beginning of week 8! We have made it this far; now, we are in the home stretch. :)

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