Personal Reflection on the past 16 days in ENGL 251

Let’s look back, wa-ay back in the term when we started these blog posts..I believe my first post was May 1 ( a whole 16 days ago). In that post I outlined my personal, outside of class, learning plan to fulfill the learning outcomes. This is roughly what it said:

1.Know basic literary terms and methods - Write about texts I read and use the literary terms I’ve learned

2.Know basic literary genres and representative texts- Read literature from the basic genres so I can know texts for each.

3.Write literary arguments- Practice writing arguments on the blog

4.Engage literature creatively and socially- By blogging about it in creative ways (blogging in itself is social)

5.Use emerging communication tools and pedagogical methods - Teach what I’m learning in a social media platform (the blog) which is an emerging communication tool.

So the question now is, how did I do on these outcomes in the past 16 days. In the following list, I've categorized all my blog posts into their corresponding learning outcome. Click on all the happy links and enjoy. (Some posts overlap into several outcomes.)

1.Know basic literary terms and methods 

• I identified some literary terms for fiction in Analyze Yourself.
• I took inspiration from symbolism in two texts we've read for class in my post, In My Purse.
• I identified poetic literary terms in my Personal Literary Narrative.
• I found more poetic literary terms in my analysis of Barbie Doll.
• I identified literary terms in my analysis of Since Feeling is First

2.Know basic literary genres and representative texts

• I identified The Ice Queen as a fictional work in my post, Ice Cold
• I came up with things that I want to read and categorized them into category by genre. Out of the list so far I have read most of the poetry.
• I identified the genre of a book I was reading as well as the genre of another book mentioned in the first book in my post, Perception is Reality
• I identified an example of poetry in my post Poetry in Russian
• I found more poetry examples in my post Life's not a paragraph...

3.Write literary arguments

• In Analyze Yourself, I made a literary argument for a fictional piece that I wrote.
• I wrote a brief literary argument for The Ice Queen in Ice Cold
• I wrote a literary argument for a favorite poem of mine in my Personal Literary Narrative.
• I wrote a literary argument for Barbie Doll in my post, Poetry in Russian.
• In Life's not a paragraph... I attempted to write a literary argument for Since Feeling is First.

4.Engage literature creatively and socially

• In Analyze Yourself, I attempted to analyze a creative writing piece that I wrote.
• In the post Why Write? I creatively talked about why writing is important in our community.
• I creatively talked about reading and literature in my post, Ticket to Everywhere.
• I creatively personalized poetry with my poem In My Purse.
• I creatively analyzed Barbie Doll by translating it in and out of Russian.
• Additionally, I set up a Good Reads profile here to engage in literature socially.

5.Use emerging communication tools and pedagogical methods

• I linked to my personal blog in Analyze Yourself, which is an emerging communication tool.
• I used videos of spoken poetry in my post Life's not a paragraph...
• I used video clips from The Dead Poet's Society to make a point about analyzing in my post The Dead Poet's Society.
• Here are a few posts that I had a good conversation through comments: this one and this one and this one.
• With the other contributors of this blog, I taught my English class about analyzing fiction through a jeopardy game.
• Additionally, all the posts I did were on an emerging communication site (this blog).

As far as assignments go, I have done all the common readings, as well as readings on my own. This is my Personal Literary Narrative and this is my Poetry adaption analysis. The post you're reading is my midterm reflection post.

Questions? Comments? Cupcakes?