It was definitely much more difficult to pick something to blog about this week, considering I was sick on Thursday so I missed a whole class.... So based on that what we did Tuesday that was most interesting to me was the activity we did when writing from certain point of views.
On Tuesday, Lacy gave the class a piece of paper with a short article on it about a 6 year old boy that wanted to see his dad at work so he got in the car and decided to drive to go see him. After we were given some time to read the short article we were instructed to pick a character and write from that person's point of view.
I chose to write from the point of view of the man who was driving behind the 6 year old boy.
This is what I wrote first....... I chose to write from the point of view of the mans mind
"What is this guy doing? I'm going to be late. BEEEEEPPPPPP!!!!! He has got to be drunk.
After we wrote for about 5 minutes Lacy told us to write as if the person were telling a story.
So this is what I wrote next...
"As I was driving behind this car I knew something wasnt right. The way the car would speed up then slowly decelerate was so unusual the only thought I had was that this guy must be drunk."
While I was doing this activity I only took it at face value, but then as I sat down to write my personal narrative I realized that the activity helped me more than I thought it would. I helped me figure out the way that I wanted to write my paper.. I chose to write it from my point of view.. As if the reader was in my mind, seeing what I was seeing...
I hope I did that efficiently.
Peace
P.S. Can someone let me know what the plan is with the Mid-term assignment.. That would be awesome!
Hey Cory! Well, like you, I was sick on Thursday and missed the class so I chose to blog about this as well. It is interesting to see how you did the activity compared to me. I like your approach to both points of view and they are pretty funny! Haha I related this to my narrative so I am excited to see what everybodys point of view is in their papers.
ReplyDeleteCory, I like how you took this assignment and related it back to our literacy narratives! I hadn't put much thought into how I would approach and talk about it. It's an interesting thing to think about...But I've read yours, and it's good!
ReplyDeleteHey cory. I also thought that that the Charles sequence was a interesting piece of literature. It also helped me in my literacy narrative. When you stated "I chose to write it from my point of view.. As if the reader was in my mind, seeing what I was seeing... I hope I did that efficiently. did the same thing. I'm interested in how you incorporated this into your literacy narrative.
ReplyDeleteI also chose to do a blog on this piece that Lacy gave us. Whenever she told us to write it in first person I chose to write it a the man driving behind the boy. When I wrote like this I was inspired to write my literacy narrative the same way.
ReplyDeleteYep, I'm with the rest of the peeps here... it is exciting to see how something comes together as you are writing in a larger context.
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