Feature Article Reflection

 

It all started when Ms. Edwards said we would start a new unit. She said the unit would be on feature articles. A few days later we started to pick a topic and research it. I knew exactly what I wanted to do, Greek Mythology. 

The reason why I wanted to do that topic is that I am reading Percy Jackson (which includes a lot of Greek mythology.) Whilst we were researching, Ms. Edwards wanted the class to think about what categories you wanted to base your research on. I had no clue what I wanted to base my research on. This was one of my biggest struggles for writing a feature article. I was going through a lot of trial and error. 

Then my friends pitched some ideas. Cayden, Devon, Christian, and Jaba all helped me with coming up with categories. I settled for the categories Mount Olympus, Greek Heroes, Greek Myths, and Ancient Greek stories. We started to create conclusions and an intro. The intro was okay, but my conclusion took me forever! I probably spent two hours on it. For about a week I spent time gathering info and putting it all on a doc.

 What was really hard was that there were barely any good sites where I could gather information. somehow I still managed to wind up with 1000 words of information.

 I could still not believe that I had that much information. After I was done with my research and categories we made a slideshow. That slideshow would be the feature article. We started adding information and formatted the slideshow. We added pictures, graphs, and timelines. Ms. Edwards assigned all of us partners to look over each other’s work and fix any problems they see. Jaba, Devon, Jaden, and Christian. We all checked over each other’s work countless times. Ms.Edwards told us to think of a title and a meaning. I was stuck. I had no clue what I should do for meaning. I thought for meaning I should do “ Greek Mythology has impacted the world we live in today” To be honest I didn’t really like that. I kept on thinking of what my meaning should be but then I settled on my meaning. “Greek Mythology is way more elaborate than you think.” For the title, I did Greek Mythology. Overall, I found this unit really fun even though I hit a lot of tough spots,I managed to get out of them and grow as a writer.