Battle of the Kings
Tamara Armstrong's Digital Story Telling
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FOR THE LOVE OF POETRY For years we have felt that poetry should comprise of stanzas made up of words and phrases that rhyme. However this class had given us a greater insight into the formation of poems. We established that poems are used to express ideas and feelings , as well as tell of a story. At the end of the class we were all more confident to create beautiful poetic pieces riddled with carefully formed stanzas and poetic flow. The lecturer had us recreate a cinquain as a class and each of us were given the responsibility to draft our own haiku. But before we did this we had to find out what a cinquain was, as this was a new word in our mental word collection. This was a stanza made up of five lines. Thus we were able to formulate a short cinquain that met the approval of the class. Unaware that poem had varieties, we were introduced to 4 types of poems, which were; ballads. narrative poems, limericks and the haiku. But of interest to us was this newly learnt one; t
REFLECTION ON MINI LESSONS Having gone through this course, we have grown to realize how significant writing is and how the intricacies of writing can be reduced if we pay attention to the writing process. Over the duration of this course, we’ve been hearing about the writing process. But what is the writing process? The writing process consists of five stages namely prewriting, drafting, revising, editing and publishing. Editing is a crucial stage of where we peruse our writing, trying to correct errors in grammar, punctuation, sentence structure, vocabulary and other mechanics in writing. Whether you are a competent writer or not, CUPS help add fluency and coherence to your piece as it helps you check for capitalization, spelling, grammar, punctuation and word usage. It may sound like a simple task but going through this process may prove to be a bit daunting. The most sensible thing would be to edit for one aspect one at a time. This would help us
WHAT IS A WRITING PHILOSOPHY? A writing philosophy is a set of reflective statements about one’s perspectives on teaching, learning, reading, writing and how it informs one’s practices. This statement is written from the author’s perspectives and is highly influenced by experience, knowledge, observations and professional development and growth. On October 15 th , 2019 our course instructor profited the opportunity to introduce us to a writing philosophy. She underscored the importance of developing our own writing philosophies as our perspectives on writing drives our instructional practices. She first read aloud her philosophy, after which, she asked us to form groups to read and analyze a sample philosophy statement. We focused on one paragraph at a time whereby we tried to connect all the pertinent points to decipher what the writer was focusing on in each. We believe that this initiative by our lecturer was a great one as not only did it called for us to collaborate,
DESCRIPTIVE WRITING This class session mainly focused on descriptive writing. We learned that descriptive writing is to describe a person, place or thing in such a way that a picture is formed in the reader's mind. We also learned that when one uses descriptive writing to speak about an event, this involves paying close attention to the details by using all of one's five senses. In addition, teaching students to write more descriptively will ameliorate their writing by making it more interesting and engaging to read. Unlike the other types of writing, it was understood that descriptive writing has many characteristics. Primarily, a good descriptive piece includes many vivid sensory details that paints a picture and appeals to all of the reader's senses of sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste when appropriate. This simply means that it helps the reader live vicariously through the writer and any piece of writing especially a descr