Blogging Around

The following comment is in response to Daniel's blog regarding partisan voting. He talks about having considering the candidate more than the party they represent.
"Daniel,
Great post! I found this very interesting because my family had this debate at the dinner table as well. My family also tends to vote for democrats, but one night my dad said he thought that some of the more moderate republicans would win his vote this year. I agree with you that we really don't need any more politicans fighting. We need them to "reach across the aisle" and fix some of the horrible things going on. Great job!"

This next comment is in response to Mitchell B.'s blog about faith and atheism. He talks about religion serving as a connection to other people.
"Mitchell,
Wow, what an interesting post! Although I am Christian, I found it really interesting to see Christianity and God through an atheist's eyes. There are many ways to look at Christianity and people take many different approaches to their faith. While I don't necessarily agree with you on some of the things, I still really enjoyed reading your post!

Metacognition: "On the Corner" Poem

To be honest, I was not looking forward to the poetry assignment at all. I had never written a poem before, and I am just not a natural poem writer. However, I decided to give it a try. That night, I sat down at my computer and tried to write a poem on soul mates, based off of Kate's blog post. I tried to add imagery, alliteration, and all of the writing components of poetry that we had learned about in class. I thought it was pretty good for being my first poem. I had a couple of classmates read it so I could get peer feedback. I made the adjustments that my classmates had suggested and turned it in. The next week when we got our poems back, I conferenced with my teacher. We decided that this poem really had no where else it could go, and I started from scratch with a new poem. This one was about homeless boys that I had seen on a corner of Chicago when I had gone downtown to work at a soup kitchen. I liked my new use of imagery, details, and words. I felt like I had gotten more into the mind set of poetry. I liked this poem a lot more than my first poem. Although I'm still not crazy about writing poetry, I am surprised to find that I actually enjoyed my final draft of my poem. Poetry writing really expanded my writing capabilities, styles, and my view of poetry.