Learning Experience

Learning Experience
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My fourth blog is kind of interesting. It consists on me picking one of my previous blogs that I believe I have done a good job and I am proud of it. However, it is hard for me to just pick one because I believe that I have done well and proud of all of them. It has been a learning experience for me as writer, since I did not know much about literary terms and did not read poems before. It is been quite rough, I am not going to lie, but the overall progress has kept me motivated to do more. After writing the first 3 blogs, I can say that I have strengthened my skills as a writer impressively. Blogs 1 through 3, each and every one of them has been special.  

Let's start with the first one which was about choosing a passage about roses. This first blog taught me too many things at once. From the beginning it was a challenge since I have never done it before. The picking of the images, setting up my blog with a cool template design, quoting up the passage as a block quote, giving an introduction to the passage were the easy ones. But when it got to explaining the poem, trying to understand it and learning how to interpret the meaning of a word (symbols and/or allusion) that poet often use to suggest something greater than its literal meaning the task became quite hard and complicated. My second blog was somewhat the same just that this one was at a bigger scale. This time was a whole poem rather than just a quote like the first one.  On my third blog I learned great things too; how to paraphrase poem, picking key words and interpreting them and most valuable understanding the tone of a speaker. All these blogs together have made my experience in class greater, even though it is been tough I have learned a lot.

The projects we have done in class so far have been great. The professor has made it real interesting by creating houses in the class, something I have never done before. Working with My Plath House members have been excellent.  We have shared experience, learned from each other and understood better the class projects with the help of each other.

My experience evaluating the member of my house was great. They all are great writers and it was hard for me to find things wrong in their papers. By evaluating the member of my house I inspire my classmates to improve their skills. Also I have the opportunity to give and receive feedback from someone other than the professor. Lastly, this evaluation can help the member of the team to gather new ideas that they may have not tough before.