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This week I learned time management. I learned you need to schedule out your days so that you have time to do all the things you need to do. I also learned you really need to be present in class or you will have literally no idea what is going on. I'm constantly confused on what we are doing. Another thing I learned is that your work isn't going to do itself. You have to do it or it won't get done. You can't expect things to magically happen. I have a bad case of senioritis and I never want to do my work but I am trying to overcome it and get my stuff in. I was absent for a lot of this week just like i always am so whenever I come back and I'm all confused about what is going on.
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This week we had a lot of snow days and it taught me sometimes you have to create time for getting things done outside of the time given because your plans are not always going to work out but you still need to finish projects on time. I kept telling myself I would write my This I Believe story and I kept putting it off and putting it off and I never started it and now that has caused me to have a big fat zero for that project all because I procrastinated. I am a huge procrastinator and I know that, I am trying to work on that. This week also taught me to get my butt in gear before the end of the marking period so I do ot have a F in this class.In this week I learned how to write a story that's quite personal and how to create a video to go with it. I learned how to use a new site called WeVideo and create a digital story. Also I learned how to be comfortable with recording my voice and use different phrasing to make things more relatable or understandable. The lesson I used for my story is that I believe people are good at heart.This week I learned how to write a story about one of my beliefs and how I came to that belief. I also learned it was a lot of trial and error because not every belief you have has a good story behind it. I had to start over multiple times before I had one that I had enough to write about. I also realized how many of my beliefs come from past experiences and not from other people. Which makes me pretty happy considering it could be the other way around and all my beliefs could be someone elses.
This week I learned that people connect with the stories we tell and are interested in them more than just cold hard facts. This interest helps them remember the facts from the story. I also learned the rules of Creative Writing, which are basically just rules that say there are no rules to creative writing. Also, I learned that we do not have to be afraid to talk in this class because it is a safe space. These main ideas are all connected because they are basically just telling you to be yourself and try to connect to people so that they remember the things you told them. An important idea we learned this week was that you should not think during creative writing you just write and then later you can go back and edit later. We reinforced this idea by actually having a creative writing period were we were given 10 minutes to just write and we were not supposed to edit. We learned these ideas by hearing them and understanding them. I do not have any questions, I think I understand the stuff we learned pretty well. I think I was pretty involved in the learning of the main ideas of the class, I did miss one day but besides that I was here and attentive. I would rate my understanding of the ideas this week ten out of ten stars. The only thing I think I need to work on is not editing as I go along in the creative writing sessions.
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