Visual Note Taking

Taking a set of notes and translating them into a different medium made me realize that by breaking down complex concepts into simple representations of them, you can learn a lot about the material. It was especially useful for my Psych classes chapter on Classical Conditioning as there are many elements that are closely connected although they may not appear to be so. After I drew Ivan Pavlov and I placed him into my notes, I realized that the entire unit was connected to him in some way, and his impact on Psychology was far bigger than I had thought. It also made me sort of emotional to draw a crying child, as the scientists that experimented with classical conditioning using a baby scarred him for life and caused him to ultimately die.

By also being forced to lay down all my notes into just one clear space I was able to group all of the concepts about classical conditioning and have them side by side to see only the most important parts of the matter.

Note Task

Literacy reflection

This essay was a very interesting write as it required me to look at how reading and writing has effected my life. From the ups and downs of reading to a dread of in-class essays I was forces to concisely consider how everything in my life has lead me to my current state of reading. Its a unique experience being able to refinance on my avid 2nd grade reading phase and the transition I made to someone who cant even pick up a book without falling asleep.

Literacy Narrative Reflection

 

It was truly enjoyable to be able to write about personal experience and in the first person. I always love to write when there is no prompt because it give me freedom to do whatever I want. It is weird to write about how I don’t like writing and reading in a writing and reading class but it was definitely interesting to do so.

LITERACY NARRATIVE REFLECTION

Link to site: https://ibdodi.wordpress.com/literacy-narrative-part-1/

Peer response

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  1. What do you take away as the controlling idea of the essay?
  2. What’s the most interesting point the student makes?
  3. What’s one thing that you really wish you had heard more about or a question you had as you read that wasn’t answered?
  4. What is one thing about your peer’s essay which is similar to the one you wrote? How so?

Literacy Narrative Reflection

The following literacy narrative explores key events and progressions in my early life that shaped my current reading and writing ability. Describing how I iniitally learned to read and write was more challenging than expected, and not because it was difficult to recall events that took place so many years ago, but because it is hard to articulate learning a skill that is now so natural to me. It’s like describing how I learned to ride a bike. Which would essentailly boil down to a trial-and-error process of falling down and getting back up.

In writing this piece I was able to visualize my reading and writing progression chronologically, and quickly noticed some patterns. For instance, it seems that I always preferred the practice of writing to reading, predominately due to the freedom of creating my own arguments as oppose to absorbing those of others. I think the most unique attribute of my literacy narrative is my early eagerness to read and frustration with writing, which ironically turned to an aversion toward reading and a fascination with writing.

Literacy Narrative Reflection

I really enjoyed this writing assignment.  I’ve always been fearful of writing and enjoyed the more relaxed writing style and process for this mini essay. I also appreciated how the word count wasn’t daunting and was super manageable. The free-writing was a great tool and base for the start of my narrative.  It allowed me to get my ideas out there on paper and then go back and form them in a cohesive and structured format. Free-writing is the start to the editing and improving process to ultimately reach the final work.

From writing my narrative I learned that as I got older, reading became less and less of a priority.  Reading used to be a reward. Having the opportunity to read a book before bed was incentive for good behavior. Now it’s seen as chore or a burden because it’s assigned which is so sad to me. However, I’ve come to appreciate reading for pleasure way more than before.

Through writing this narrative I realized how unappreciative I was of my mom’s devotion to encouraging me to read and is something I hope to pass on to my kids one day.  I also learned that I should actually commit to keeping a journal because that’s where I can freely express my thoughts and practice my writing simultaneously.

A sentence that I think readers would connect with, not necessarily find interesting is when I wrote, “Once I turned 10, it meant I said goodbye to “little kid” picture books and hello to “big kid” chapter books.”

Literacy Narrative 

Reflection Post for Literacy Narrative

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Preview of Narrative (work in progress)

What I learned from this task: Good to brainstorm and physically write out ideas. Easier to be messy/ add extra linking information. Makes it less daunting. Made me reflect on my childhood a lot. Strange things to think about but very interesting to try and pinpoint events.

Writing process: It was different to brainstorm ideas. Usually type down certain ideas, but they rarely link and it just clutters up my actual work document. Brainstorming made it much easier to begin the actual writing. I have lots of things I can talk about … usually I don’t know where to start.

What did you learn about yourself? I remembered how much I used to enjoy reading and I got to think about lots of happy memories. This writing made me realize that not all English writing tasks have to be boring/ dreaded. Always had conventional/ essay based English classes and so it is refreshing to try a new approach.

Most interesting sentence? (Work in progress)

Literacy Narrative: Reflection

This was a very tough essay to write.

The overall idea of what this narrative is attempting to say is that writing has been a big part of my life that has evolved from happy stories to real life situations. From writing at a young age, I’ve always found comfort in it, and it has helped me deal with the worst of times, especially in high school. Reading has also helped, but it has evolved drastically from interests in fiction to interests in facts.

During the process of writing this narrative, I had a lot of troubles. It was very strange to reflect on the majority of my life and pinpoint where reading and writing have significantly changed the course of my life. It’s almost surreal. The pre-write helped a ton, however. I poured countless stories, ideas, and emotions into just the pre-write, which made it both easy and tough for the actual draft. The plethora made it seem like there would be many choices, but it became tough when I realize that I wanted to include it all. Having a 750 word limit was an even greater challenge. Even after deleting a large portion of my writing, I was still well above 750 words, making it so that I had to be even more concise with my words.

I’ve learned that I’ve changed a lot as a person. I always told myself this, but I never really had the best evidence to prove this to myself. However, after a deep reflection, I’ve come to understand that I actually have changed a great deal, especially since junior year of high school.

I’m surprised that I’d been writing for so long. I’d always known that I wrote from a young age, but I had not yet connected the dots between my writing now and my writing then.

I hope that everyone can at least appreciate the last question asked in my post, and I believe that we are all still debating within ourselves the answer to that question.

 

Link to the post: https://explorationofcomics.wordpress.com/literacy-narrative-reading-and-writing/

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