This week, we focused very heavily on our literature projects. It was very helpful to be able to converse with my group and get a better understanding for what we plan as a group. Personally, I learned how to use prezi and understand how the different functions work and how to create things like "invisible brackets" and how to put those brackets within the tiniest of places. I had never used prezi before so it was very frustrating to be behind my group members (All people with experience with Prezi). Even though it may have been a setback, my group patiently taught me how to use prezi and understood when I couldn't do certain things. It is very important for a group to understand each other and to be able to work out problems like a member not knowing how to use the presentation type. As a group, we've been together much more often this week so it makes it much easier to be able to discuss what we want to do and with all of us together, it definitely is easier to get everyone's say in what is going on in the group. I enjoyed having two full class periods to work on the project because we definitely got quite a bit done.
While reading one of the short stories for our Point of View section, I realized that a story can be in any form of POV and can be a combination of two different ones. For example, in "Young Goodman Brown", I was stuck in between Omniscient POV and third-person POV limited. There were reasons to support both of them but it confused me greatly because of the fact that there was a narrator talking about Goodman Brown. It got me thinking while I was trying to nail down the point of view, that the different points of view can be used in countless ways! I discovered that "omniscient point of view" can be limited to the narrator following one character! I was very excited and proud of myself when I came to this realization. I had never realized before that it could stray from the ones that we were taught in school.
This weeks poem of the week also showed me that I have strong and weak points with poetry. I had no problem with last week's poem "I felt a funeral in my brain", but I had a lot of trouble with this weeks sonnet. I couldn't see where my peers were coming with their ideas and was having trouble forming ideas of my own. I was wondering, is it possible that a poem even has that deeper meaning or is it just what is there on the paper? All I got out of this weeks poem was that the speaker was comparing amazing natural phenomenons to the moment that he has with his true love and she might be possibly dying. Even though I could relate to the star because I love my life to be as steadfast and unchanging as possible, I had no idea if there was any "hidden" meanings to the poem or what I should be getting out of it. I think that I need quite a bit more practice with deciphering the meaning of poems that I might not have immediate ideas with. Even though I didn't quite understand the poem of the week, I did think it was a very successful week overall and I really enjoyed being able to work with my group and realizing that they would help me in any way possible instead of leaving me in the dust to figure things out on my own.
While reading one of the short stories for our Point of View section, I realized that a story can be in any form of POV and can be a combination of two different ones. For example, in "Young Goodman Brown", I was stuck in between Omniscient POV and third-person POV limited. There were reasons to support both of them but it confused me greatly because of the fact that there was a narrator talking about Goodman Brown. It got me thinking while I was trying to nail down the point of view, that the different points of view can be used in countless ways! I discovered that "omniscient point of view" can be limited to the narrator following one character! I was very excited and proud of myself when I came to this realization. I had never realized before that it could stray from the ones that we were taught in school.
This weeks poem of the week also showed me that I have strong and weak points with poetry. I had no problem with last week's poem "I felt a funeral in my brain", but I had a lot of trouble with this weeks sonnet. I couldn't see where my peers were coming with their ideas and was having trouble forming ideas of my own. I was wondering, is it possible that a poem even has that deeper meaning or is it just what is there on the paper? All I got out of this weeks poem was that the speaker was comparing amazing natural phenomenons to the moment that he has with his true love and she might be possibly dying. Even though I could relate to the star because I love my life to be as steadfast and unchanging as possible, I had no idea if there was any "hidden" meanings to the poem or what I should be getting out of it. I think that I need quite a bit more practice with deciphering the meaning of poems that I might not have immediate ideas with. Even though I didn't quite understand the poem of the week, I did think it was a very successful week overall and I really enjoyed being able to work with my group and realizing that they would help me in any way possible instead of leaving me in the dust to figure things out on my own.