This week, with our PoW, we learned how to pull out the rhetorical and analytical sides of the poem. By sharing in a much larger group, it put into prospective that not everyone has the same views. Out of the 6 people I had been working with, all of us had a slightly different take to the poem. Earlier in the week, we had been asked why the simple, colloquial words of the poem were used and why it was appropriate. I had answered that it gave a much more general idea that could be followed but I was proved wrong when my peers pointed out to me that all of us took it in a different way. I have a feeling by starting the what is literature project, it will be very difficult to meet in the middle somewhere and agree enough to write papers on and do a presentation. Even though the group is small, we each have a distinct idea of what we want to read and how we will take it. This week, we did quite a bit of sharing as a class. I think this is really effective to help us see different sides of things and understand where other people are coming from. You just might find yourself saying, "I had never thought about it like that before." You know learning has been done when you can understand the point of view of another person. By getting together and looking over PoW of not only our peers but of people who had actually been scored, it gave me a better idea of what is expected of our paper and I think that this weeks will be quite a bit easier. I'm still confused as to exactly how we should format and write the PoW but it has definitely gotten better.