Commenting Review Week

I have found that most of the comments I have received are very useful. I feel very connected with the other students through commenting. I also feel less intimidated giving my opinions about other students' posts because they don't know me! I have really enjoyed comments that have given me ideas to improve my stories. The comments where people suggest other ways I could have written my story or changed something up have been very beneficial for me.
The comments that I have received so far on my project have been very helpful. It is nice seeing how others perceive my writing and tell me ways that I can improve it. I feel that this will help me better my writing and will help me with a greater finished product at the end of the semester.
When writing shorter comments, I try to focus on the good parts of the story. I try to point out one thing that could be better or be different. In the longer comments, I try to be really analytic about the story and try to help the writer with things they can improve.
Commenting is very beneficial for this class and I am glad that we do it. Sometimes I find it difficult because I hate to tell people what they can improve on. I feel like I come off as being rude when I do this. Commenting really does help us improve the quality of our posts and our projects in this class.

Dogs and teamwork

I love this image and just thought that it was really funny!

Writing Review Week

When this semester started, I was most nervous about writing stories. I am not a writer and I am not very creative, so the thought of writing my own stories scared me. I really liked the first writing assignment of the semester. When picking a familiar nursery rhyme, this made the assignment less intimidating. It actually is not so hard to write stories. There are many ways that you can change the story to make it your own. The one I like the most that I have done lately is changing the point of view that the story it told from. This makes it easy to be creative. I got the idea of changing the point of view from reading someone else's story in their blog. I find it very helpful to look at the stories that other classmates are writing. This helps me to think of ways to change up my storytelling.
The feedback that I get it usually very helpful. People are very nice with their comments, but they provide helpful feedback, as well.
For the rest of this semester, I hope that I can continue to improve my writing. I think that helpful feedback from others and creativity in changing up my stories will help me achieve this goal.

Jack and Jill falling down a hill

I chose this image to put in my post because this post really helped me to not be afraid of the storytelling assignment. It made me realize that it is not as hard as I was expecting it to be.

Reading Review Week

I enjoyed reading The Ramayana. It loved reading the stories about Rama and the others. These were definitely interesting stories. My favorite readings are the stories in the Un-textbook. These are easier for me to read since they are shorter stories. These are easier to pay attention to. My favorite section of the Un-Textbook so far is the Khasi Folktales. This section has many cute, short stories like What Caused the Shadows on the Moon and How the Cat Came to Live with the Man. I really enjoyed these stories.
For my note-taking, I really like to talk about the details that happened in the story. I see now that others do things differently. I like that some people use bullet points when doing their reading diaries. I might start to do this in the future. It helps things be more organized.
These reading diaries are very helpful if you need to look back at stories from earlier in the semester. It makes it very easy to recall details from the story that have been forgotten. These are very beneficial.

Rama breaking the bow

I chose this image because I remember reading this story and I liked it very much!