Final Blog- My Reflection

This summer I have took a journey that I have never seen before in a class especially a college course. In the beginning I was skeptical of what I was getting myself into I was thinking I don’t think I can do everything she wants me to do and still pass the course. A lot of people felt what I was feeling and some didn’t return but the ones who were brave and down for the challenge of this Lit 110 class stayed and I think we made a good choice.
Literature is basically is all about reading short stories, drama, novels, and poetry which I thought but Stephanie took the art of it and made it into something we could actually enjoy and get us involved in every section we learned we had a big project on it so when it comes down to experience I have a lot starting with the mini book club we read a lot of short stories from different types of authors and we even had our own personally to facilitate to our class mates this experience made me learn how to produce a way to keep the discussion about the short story going I had to live my story just so I can have many things to talk about within my group even going having to read the other stories you had to go in knowing the story in order to answer the questions and help discuss the story even though the down and dirty kept us on our toes literally. This had me out of my element but I actually was more engaging in the mini discussion then I thought I would be actually talking and coming up with ideas about a short story made reading easier because if you didn’t know something you could talk about it amongst your peers my favorite short story was Nipple Jesus I thought the theme and voice was incredible I understood the text and that made it the more fun to read and it was one of the short stories that was one of the good ones to discuss about.
Next, The introduction to drama I just knew we would read a drama play I didn’t think I would be in a drama play that experience open me up to being a character experience it from not just reading it but being it I really liked all the plays because everyone took it and made it their own everyone did a fabulous job because they were really into play and that what made it enjoyable. That also came out when we did the poetry slam I thought that was one of the craziest ideas I could every do I didn’t think I could right my own poetry even reading and breaking down other poems didn’t work for me but somehow I managed to let myself not get frustrated and just think about and just free write and it worked out just fine. To me listening to everyone poems that day brought everyone personality some actually acting it out really help me understand the poem such as Montana and Shawna understood what they felt because they gave emotion and that’s when I learned if you want someone to listen and to hear you out you better show some emotion so they can feel it.
In this class we experimented a lot we especially from all the workshop we did for the flash fiction and poetry those really help get some ideas out of me and I actually tried to take what was afford to my advantage even though it didn’t work for me with the flash fiction but when doing the poetry workshops got a better understanding. Another experiment was Shakespeare play very difficult to understand but it was enjoyable like I said in one of my weekly blog it was a different type of experience because you had to really have to listen to grasp the concept of the play.
I also expanded myself because I of the weekly blogging I didn’t think I would be good at expressing myself weekly on text I read outside of class but it did help me expand because I blogged about stuff I never really read such as magazines when I looked at everything I read from watching TV a movie and tried to analyze it into a blog this made blogging more fun because it was what you read. I also expanded myself because all in one summer I seen a band play, a play, and watched a movie about an authors life and in all I am grateful for this experience and experimenting with all types of literature and expanding myself with new thing now I can say I seen it all when it comes down to literature.