How I Evolved as a Writer Script
I have been able to grow in regards to writing more emotionally and connecting with a more personal side. When I first started writing my Resonance Of Remembrance memoir, I remember wanting an emotional response from the audience. I wanted to write something really beautiful that perfectly captures my mother and father’s personality. I wanted it to be a movie. This picture was the one I used for exhibition. I chose this one because I think it captures the amount of love that was in the room. I included an excerpt from my memoir as well. “At 7:00 pm on February 27, 2001, the nurse took me back, cleaned me up, and swaddled me.When my mom married my dad, his whole family expected a redheaded baby. They were elated to see that I received the gene. My Mom was the first to hold me. Her emotions were running wild when the nurse gently handed me to my mom. She felt like her world was being flipped upside down. She tells me she was in shock, that she was overwhelmed with joy, and she was so proud to finally meet the child that she had been carrying for 9 months.” When I was actually writing the memoir, it was a lot more difficult to use descriptive imagery. I wrote about 3 drafts until I go to the point where I wanted to rewrite the whole thing. I did not end up rewriting it because I knew it was too far into the project, so I talked to Ms. Janna and told her what I wanted to accomplish. She helped me improve areas that I did not like or that I did not think. By Exhibition I was really confident in what I had produced. My Evidence As I mentioned before, I want to improve on my sensory details and descriptive imagery. When I read some of my peer’s memoirs I could picture a movie in my head. Their sensory details totally engulfed me and I wanted my readers to experience that when reading mine. Overall, as a student, I do not think I have grown to my full potential yet. I chose this image to represent myself as a student and how I have not yet become the best writer or scientist I know I can be. I am in the middle stage of growing to my full butterfly capabilities. To become a better writer, I want to improve my use of descriptive writing techniques to transport the reader into whatever I am writing about. To become a better scientist, I want to push myself to try the challenge problems more often. I know that if I am doing my best the rest of the year, I will see myself turn into a butterfly. My POL Presenter Reflection The most helpful question that was asked was when Ms. Janna asked me what specific memoir made me want to be more descriptive, and I said Alexa's because when I was reading her intro it was written so beautifully and I was left wanting more. If I was to do my POL over I would have talked about less and went into more detail. I would have showcase my first and last drafts of my memoir to show how much more descriptive I was in my final draft. These changes would make my POL more interesting and through. My top goal is to use more descriptive writing techniques when I write stories. I think that my whole class inspired this goal because my peers memoirs were very detailed. I will challenge myself by having conversations with Ms. Janna about how I can improve my specific piece of writing. I will know that I have completed this goal because I will compare it to my Resonance of Remembrance memoir. My POL Panelist Reflection I have learned that Vanessa enjoys working on trigonometry problems. This was a result of her starting the unit with a positive attitude and saying " I can do this" rather than "This is too hard". I had the same thoughts about the unit, but I decided to go into the unit with a growth mindset. I learned that to make a "good " POL, you need to be descriptive and have strong pieces of evidence. Alexandra's POL was a great example of this because you could tell she was prepared and knew what she was talking about. I think that we, as an audience, helped every student share a meaningful learning experience. I think that letting students know what they did well and how to improve next time, really made an improvement. Also, I enjoyed the one on one time with the teachers after the POL because it really let us know what we could work on. |
My symbolic image (above) |