During the few remaining minutes that we had in class, I did not want to start anything that I would need to keep working on so that I would not lose my flow of writing. So instead of adding details or rewriting sentences, I decided to go back and highlight parts of my literacy narrative that need some work. On google docs, I highlighted wither small fragments of sentences or whole sentences to signal my attention for when I needed…
The first revision that I would like to address comes from Chris Sobral’s first comment on the rough draft of my literacy narrative: This comment was made in regards to a quote I had put into my narrative that was said by my teacher, Mr. Gleason. He had said, “You had plenty of opportunities to dig yourself out of this hole…” To elaborate on this, I could add some examples of chances that he had given me at the time….
Personally, I work very slow, so trying to draw a self-portrait within 30 minutes did not result in the best looking work that I have produced. When it comes to my artwork, I become my own worst critic, an absolute perfectionist. In fact, I only ever fully enjoyed about three or four works out of the hundreds that I have created for the soul fact that the rest of the pieces were not worked to what I felt was its…
Reading I Just Wanna Be Average by Mike Rose was admittedly slightly difficult. The reason for this was not due to it being hard material or me just not wanting to read it, it was difficult mainly because I have had a lot going on lately and I am so stressed that it is hard to concentrate on any work. If I had not been dealing with bad situations, it makes me wonder if I would have had a much easier time…
While reading Sherman Alexie’s Superman and Me and the selection of Stephen King’s On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, one could learn, what seems to be very small on the surface, lessons that they could apply to their own life. In Alexie’s passage, Alexie talks about the exact moment he first realizes the purpose of a paragraph as he was teaching himself how to read. He says, “I still remember the exact moment when I first understood, with a…
Carol Dweck’s TED Talk The Power of Yet had a very interesting take on how our mindsets affect how we perform. During her TED Talk, she introduces a concept she calls a “growth mindset”; according to Dweck, this is where one is able to recognize “that their abilities could be developed.” On the flip side, she introduces a fixed mindset, or a mindset where one is stuck in the thoughts that they will never improve their abilities and that talent sonly natural…
