Blog post #3: Roses

The high of this week was finishing my literacy narrative. I spent all last weekend worrying about what would be a good topic to write about and how I could make it interesting. I wasn't very happy with my first draft of the paper so I wasn't at ease after that either. I still wondered how I could make it better, and what I could change. I finally just took it in a new direction and wrote a piece that I was more happy with. The low of my week was trying to figure out what I was going to write about.

In class, we have been learning about how we have and will become better writiers. For the literacy narratives, we did many activities to help us see writing in a different way. For example, the "seeing in the moment" activity we did where we closed our eyes to visualize a moment that we are writing about to help us to better remember, or even make up the things that were going on around us. We have also learned how to edit each others papers, but not just grammar corrections, but giving each other more insight as to what would make the paper better. Not only have we just learned about writing, but we have learned about each other as weel. Through the literacy narrative, the name games, and just being in class around one another.

As far as a list poem, I have never heard of it, but it seems to me kind of like a Dr. Seuss book. For example, the first Dr.Seuss book I ever read was The Foot Book.

Left foot
Right foot
Left foot
Right
Feet in the morning
Feet at night
Left foot
Left foot
Left foot
Right
Wet foot
Dry foot
High foot
Low foot
Front feet
Back feet
Red feet
Black feet
Left foot
Right foot
Feet
Feet
Feet
How many, many feet you meet.
Slow feet
Quick feet
Trick feet
Sick feet
Up feet
Down feet
Here come clown feet.
Small feet
Big feet
Here come pig feet.
His feet
Her feet
Fuzzy fur feet
In the house, and on the street,
how many many feet you meet.
Up in the air feet
Over a chair feet
More and more feet
Twenty-four feet
Here come more and more........
.........and more feet!
Left foot.
Right foot.
Feet. Feet. Feet.
Oh, how may feet you meet!

If I were to write a list poem, I would write one about roses.

Roses are red
that is what I said
but they can also be yellow, or white.
roses have thorns
that may poke you when worn
when you look at them they'er such a delight
roses are associated with love
they're thought to be beautiful just like doves
flying all around
roses are sure to never make you frown