FINAL BLOG!!!

I cant believe I am writing my final blog for the semester. Time flew by so fast. At first I did not think I would like doing blogs after every class period. This was not the case though, I found them easy to do and nice to reflect on what we were doing in class. I also liked that we could pretty much write whatever we wanted to on here. I would not mind having to do this again. Writing on a blog does not take much time or even much thought when you just go with it.

Writing workshop!

I feel like the the workshop's that we did in class did not help me that much. When we read our stories out loud that helped me a little because I was able to catch a few grammatical errors that I didn't catch by reading it in my head. I didn't seem to get much feed back from the other students so that made it hard to find it worth while. I went to the writing center and looked over two of my papers after class and that helped, I was able to get help thinking of ways I can add onto my papers to make them longer in order to reach the length requirement.

Thanksgiving!

I am heading to Chicago for Thanksgiving tomorrow to see my family! Im not exactly excited, I am driving there not flying so I have about a 9 hour drive. Not only that but I have a large family and it gets kinda boring at times considering I am the oldest girl and then its my sister who is a junior in high school. I guess the only part I am really excited about is seeing my older brother who goes to Creighton in Omaha. Although he lives pretty close to vermillion I have only seen him once for about a day sense school has started. Sense all my family is in town it makes it hard to get to spend time with my friends, and that kinda stinks. Oh well, after this week we only have about three weeks left of school and then we are off for christmas. :) This semester has went by so fast!!!

The outline

The outline helped a lot and I think made my paper easier to write. The only thing I didn't like about it was that we had two days to do that and also the first draft of the paper. I feel like I had to rush to get the outline done and start the paper because I was so busy and didn't have much time. Although over all it helped keep my paper more organized.

New Thesis

Ursula K. Le Guin's " The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" those who walked away feel uncomfortable with the situation in front of them and walk away.

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas.

Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" the town people who walk away do not agree whit what is happening but yet are not strong enough to stand up for what they believe in, so they walk away without saying a word.

Reading Critically

I've never exactly read anything this way, so it was a bit difficult at first. I started to get  a bit better as I went on. I found myself highlighting a lot of key ideas through the stories and then writing in the margins what each paragraph is about so it is easy to go back and find what I am looking for. I also found it a bit easier to find symbols in the stories. This is something that is going to take work and practice but will be extremely helpful in the future and for other english classes. From now on I am not going to rush through my readings, it makes more sense to get it done the right way the first time. :)