After learning about the content of the type if stories and poetry, we were then able to work on what we wants to write about. At first I had no idea what to write about, or how to incorporate what we suppose to put into our writing. First was to write about poetry, this I dreaded the most since I never wrote poetry before. Throughout the three poems I implemented rhyme, sound, and placement of the stanzas from what we learned in class. I decided that I just needed to try my best to write poetry, from where I began I believe that I have grown tremendously. I now know more about how to write poetry, along with actual poets. I worked very hard on the poems that I wrote. I wanted to make sure that they didn’t seem like a second grader wrote it, even though it may appear that way to others. In my first poem Rudy, I made sure that there was a rhyme pattern that went along the whole poem. My second poem, I tried to use specific words to create sound. Finally my last poem I used placement on the page to write the seasons in a life cycle type of way. If I didn’t take this class I know that I wouldn’t have practiced my writing skill or be able to write the way that I do now. Once the poetry proportion of the class was finished, we moved on to fiction and non-fiction. I learned what was needed for both. At …show more content…
This was nerve-racking because I believed that my writing was not good enough for people to read. During my poem I took the risk of putting my emotions out in the open when I wrote about my friend who passed away. I now get to say that this made me feel more confident about my writing. I took the criticism very well, I thought at first it would be hard, but I then realized that my fellow classmates had many good ideas on how I could improve my work. Taking what my peers wrote I was able to think differently about my writing and incorporate their ideas to make my work better. I looked at what people wrote with grammar correction, title suggestions, and content changes and I took their advice and made those