Reflections

Reflections

· Color Poem
o This piece is about the colors pink, purple, and blue and I wrote about those colors because they made me think about cotton candy. While writing this piece I learned about describing things. I did not really have to revise this piece because it was a group activity and we all just put our thoughts together and made sure it was correct.

· Short Story
o This piece is about human trafficking dealing with a man and his finance. I wrote this because human trafficking interests me and I thought I would make it into an interesting story. Though out writing this I learned the correct steps to writing a short story. I had to revise for ideas because at first I was going to do my story on cheating. I had to make some grammical corrections that my peers pointed out to me.

· Orange Poem
o This poem is about a kindergartner at school. He is doing an activity with oranges because it is “orange” week at school. I wrote this because I remember doing that when I was little. I learned about how you can have one object but write about it in so many ways. Ms. Turner changed some grammar errors on it when I sent it to her in my google account. Anna Camille and James both commented on my poem about how they thought it was creative and liked how I turned the orange into many different things.

· Vinallelle Poem
o This poem is about a day in the life of ants. I don’t really know why I wrote about ants but I just started out my poem with the word ant and made things rhyme from it. In this poem I learned how to use the vinalelle style of poems. Ms. Turner made some corrections when I sent it into her on google docs and spreadsheets. Kristi commented on my Orange Poem and said that she liked the topic and it was refreshing reading about something simple and random like ants.

· People Poem
o This poem is describing a girl I watched during gym class. I was learning to write about somebody that I have never known or talked to but write about them by my five senses. I revised my poem half way through because I did not like the style I was using and Ms. Turner found some grammar mistakes.

· Memoir
o This piece is about hitting a deer in my car on my way home one night. I wrote about it because this story makes me laugh a lot. While writing this piece I learned new ways of describing things in sencentecse. Ms. Turner found some grammar errors in it that I fixed.

· Learning from your classmates
o I learned that you do not have to make all your poems rhyme. This is important to me because I used to try to make all my poems rhyme.
o I learned that you do not have to describe everything in detail. This is important to me because I used to flood my papers with detail.
o I learned that it is important to write about stuff that people understand because I used to just write about random stuff in my head that nobody got.