Week 8 Growth Mindset

              After looking back at my original post about "Growth Mindset",  I have come to find that I have changed my views about my classes. The classes I thought would be hard turned out to be alright, and the class I was excited for, is now my most dreadful class. I feel that it is hard to find motivation for myself, especially since I am not doing too well in my classes right now. I need to manage time better and look ahead of my schedule to do so. I think I manage my life outside of school very well, I just am having a hard time with my classes this semester. I think that I can start to take time out of my Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays to do some of the assignments that are due on Sundays. Leaving all of Sundays' assignments has definitely become my weakness. I could also go ahead and in advance read on Sunday for Monday, and that way I give myself enough time for reading on Tuesday. I feel that being open to comments and feedback has helped me in this class a lot, especially with my portfolio. I want to continue that past the borders of this class.

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Week 8 Reflections

11)         Reading.

                                    With my reading notes, I have noticed some good/bad changes. In the very beginning, I just used to summarize what would happen in the story, which would help me on the Weds when I would need to write me stories. This, however, was not what the reading assignments were looking for. Then I switched to just jotting down ideas and key/interesting facts that I wanted to write about (which is was the assignment wanted). I am starting to read like a writer, but it is very difficult for me. I love the comics and film version of the readings. I feel this best helps be creative cause I can visualize the characters and from reading about their actions I can make them into my own characters.

22)         Writing.

                                    I am pretty proud of the stories I have written so far. Most of the stories I have written are love stories, but I have branched out. I have written a lot of love stories because they are easy to come up with for me, and if the story already has a man and woman character, I instantly think of them being in love. If I ever have trouble I look to the story idea generator. If whatever the idea doesn’t pertain to my reading for that week, I just refresh the page. I took the story idea generators advice twice so far, and I feel that has helped me tremendously. I would like to try writing children stories, and the fake Facebook post. I definitely want to master coming up with different styles and sway from just writing in past tense, and stories without quotes.

33)         Connecting.

                                    I admire others sense of creativity. I have read stories that are made into tv shows, or therapy sessions, and more. I love how people have dialogue and some even describe the characters before telling the story. I feel like my feedback had been pretty well thought out. I try to help them out as much as I can with grammatical errors, and also telling them what they are doing well on. In the rest of the semester, I want to improve on giving people compliments on their creativity specifically.  

I chose this picture because it encourages you to write from your own perspective indirectly. Photo Credits: Stone Wall Services