The reason why I like doing blogs. I remember in fifth grade that there was a page of the week where we would have to write a page on what happened in school, life, or a story that we made up. I chose to write stories and in the beginning, I was motivated and had a lot of creativity since I wrote about something so nonsensical as a character named Mr. marshmallow who had a hot dog gun. I truly didn’t know what I was writing but I just wrote and even if my writing was illegible I would still know what I was writing about. I wrote to move the crowd literally if I wrote something like the crowd goes wild then the crowd would respond by going wild or if I said to turn around then the crowd would turn around and it was fun to see the crowd be engaged in the story. The real reason why I liked writing was that I didn’t need the rules of conventional writing but just to put my brain on the page and let the creative juices flow. After a while, it got a lot harder to write since I didn’t know what to write about so I would write that I have nothing and that I had writer’s block and it was all true. Most people say that the best art is fueled mainly by emotion, I say that it comes when you are pushed to your limit but truly I don’t really know what I mean by that since art is all subjective and I kind of don’t see art in paint splatters but to each their own. I like writing about blogs because I am able to get what I learned on a page and see my reaction to it, and It is much easier to remember if I am able to be engaged in the lesson. I also like writing just to write since it is a way to get something off of your chest. For me, though I think that blogs should be done each week and what I mean is that Blogs should be due every Sunday so that no one will be behind and I know that this idea is controversial since many people have lives outside of class. I know that it is funny to say that since some of my teachers would beg to differ but I digress there should be more importance on having a number of blogs before the due date like dates that tell you how many blogs you should have but it does not need to have the exact amount but just be like one blog away from the number of blogs. I told you in a blog before that I am not so good at long-term projects but this was kind of easy I may have waited till like December to do most of my blogs but I had to also edit and proofread all of the blogs to post them though. Once I did one blog I would keep on going just because it was easy to write about it since I remember learning it.
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I on purpose give flexibility. But this semester, I will assign them and give students no choice. I won’t tell them it was your idea.
I’ve been thinking about this somewhat anyway- to assign blogs every week and give 1 HW pass for it.