revised introduction letter

hello, my name is Danielle, i want to become an art teacher and i enjoyed enw 210 very much. in this site, you will see the works that i have produced with the help of my classmates and professor’s advise. my goal for this class was to have at least one work that i was really proud of, and even though i hoped for more i did enjoy writing all of them. i do know though that this class had produced many future writers, or more so introduced me to them and i really hope we all continue to do what we have been taught.

self assessment

i feel that the further we got into the semester the more of myself that i relieved.

the fictional piece had no connection to me or anybody that I know and care for so it was easy to write. I feel that a lot of people thought this in the class including the teacher. which is why it was the first one to go. though I say it’s easy it took me some time to figure out an idea. at first, I wanted to do a type of peter pan theme or alice in wonderland one wrong.

but I went with the therapist route in which the therapist isn’t really there. in fact, allows the patient to go on and on. in mine the therapist allows the character to write a book to vent out. this becomes her diary in a way or more so an autobiography that allows her to see that its not her fault. i feel that it could have been better but i had fun in making it

the poetry piece was something I had a lot of fun with and i really expressed the way i was feeling at the moment. we always have insecurities, well i always do. so to write something short but expressive like poems was something that i needed. i feel that with things that need me to write more then a few lines always makes me over exaggerate my responses in which the true meaning is gone. i feel that both poems expressed something that not only i can relate to but others in the classroom. i also realized how versatile my language in describing, its either very literal or it can take some time to get the idea.

for my two poems, i think the second one was the most difficult. the first one was, or more is, an idea that i have had to boil in my brain for many many years. while the topic of the second topic is more of something that i have been dealing with more recently. so my wording didn’t come out as fluid as my flower poem. but i did enjoy writing and i hope that the professor continues on showing various artist to allow people to see that frost ain’t the only poet in the world.

the memoir was the most difficult because i had to dissect everything that i had in my brain to the point i had a way too much to write about that it took a while for one clear topic. there are so many ideas and lessons one learns in life it was difficult to choose. i was stuck between ideas such as when i first started to question my faith, or what should i base my morals on. but i went with the topic i went with because of its something that I’ve been dealing with for a long time.

though now thinking back i feel that the topic of faith might have been an easier entry especially being that a reason why it seemed so difficult for my father to accept others was due to the faith he was brought up with. but i went against it being that we have never spoken about faith as a conversation just between us, our religious mothers were always the stars of that conversation. i learned that i should talk about this more with my father in not only car rides because writing it reminded me of how important that conversation was to me.

the monologue was fun to write but not to act, though it just shows how much I need to work on my confidence in a classroom ( or just don’t act at all). I remember that acting it out was just me with my face down and my cheeks flaming red. literally, my hands were cold against my face. but it was nice to write it out, it was also an appreciation for my mother is that in most of my works it seemed that she was just not there. but she is and is a very prominent part of my life. and is honestly doing exactly what my character had said to want to do.

i also found it cool that we were allowed to act both in class and online to see what setting we could add that we couldn’t in class. i feel that a lot of this class would have been great to have in a block for the freshman, specifically the one i had in my freshman year, being that playwriting was important to that class. i feel that this assignment showed me how i remained the same as that girl who not only entered class but just college in general and i want to work on that.

the pro folio was something fun to as the end of the semester project. Not only does it allow us to see what else cuny offers students but it was a nice toe in the water to the introduction on blogging. and it allowed showing a bit more of ourselves with decorating and such for the profile. i feel that the portfolio was a smart way to organize everything and to make sure that everyone had done there work in case blackboard decided to be funny.

i feel that this assignment was meant to give us students a view point and want to publish something that we are proud enough to not only show the teacher but too any other cuny student in the country. and i feel that was what the class was building up to be in the discussions and such, creating a mindset to connect with readers such as we did with the class mates.