December 7

Feature Article Reflection

 

Five weeks ago my teacher assigned us to write a feature article. When she told us to choose our t0pic, I had no idea what I was going to write about. After a while I narrowed it down to 3 options : Minecraft, Tom Brady, and the Titanic. Then I realized that I could not do the Titanic because someone else  was doing it. Then my friend told me that he was doing his on the NFL so I had to do Minecraft.  Which I was kind of happy about.

It took me forever to figure out what my message was going to be at first. My message was going to be that there is so much story behind Minecraft. After I wrote my article I could not find a way to incorporate this meaning so I ended up changing it to Minecraft, which is a really unique game.

My favorite part of this entire thing was designing the layout of my article. I liked this part so much because I got to play around with the layout and what photos I wanted. It took a little while  but in the end I found the layout I liked the most. The most challenging part of this project was editing. It was so challenging because I had looked at the article several times so I did not notice all the errors with my article. 

My most effective strategy was writing about what I know about then elaborating on it. For example I used a comparison to show the chances of finding it.”The chances of finding one of these are the chances of you winning $1000 in the lottery.“ This definitely worked because I ended up with a five page 1200 word article. This article only took five weeks to write and put together. 

 I am most proud of all the writing I did to make this article. I am so proud of it because I usually do the bare minimum for writing but for this project I pushed myself to make a long article.  Another thing that I am really proud of is the layout of my article. I really like it and I am really proud of it too.

Writing this feature article was very hard but also very fun. This unit was much harder than narrative writing but overall it was much more fun thanks for reading.

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October 26

Personal Narrative Reflection

Up, up, and away is the personal narrative I wrote this year. It is about my seventh birthday and how I got a drone and lost it on that day.

Originally I wanted to write about how I got lost on a beach because I followed a feather half a mile down the beach but I decided to not write about it because I was 1 year old. I ended up deciding on this story because I remember the entire thing.

 I planned it out by putting on a timeline on a piece of paper. This was probably the easiest part but I knew it was only going to get harder. After I planned it I did my first draft. This was pretty easy because I just wrote a quick summary and then for every other draft I took this one draft and revised it until I got to my final document. Editing was the hardest part because I did not know what to fix because of the revising. Soon we got writing partners. Mine was Max Jin. I showed it to him and he found a ton of errors. I looked at his and I found a ton of errors too. After about a day I finally finished the story.

I feel like my strengths in writing are dialog. I think this because I used it a lot and I got only good comments on it, not how I can fix it. But I think I was especially strong in my intro. I think this my biggest strength because everyone who read my story always commented on my intro including mrs. Cooper.

During this unit I think I grew as a writer a lot. I think this because I no longer complain when writing. I think I grew a lot during this unit and became a better writer. Max Jin helped me a lot during this unit he helped me a lot with the editing

Overall this writing unit was was super fun but definitely very hard.

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