Reflection

Blog Reflection

          In general I have really enjoyed blogging about my reading over the course of this trimester. It helped me keep track of all of the different events and conflicts in the book I have been reading. I am disappointed that I didn't even get through one full book this trimester but I have read more carefully and feel like I have a higher understanding of the book.  One of my bigger strengths through blogging was my ability to summarize the key events in my blog from my book. I also liked to see what other people were posting. It gave me ideas for future books I might like. It also helped to look at their blogs to get ideas for new posts

          My ability to closely analyze texts has improved very much over the course of the trimester. At the beginning had had brief summaries about what was happening but now I go into more detail of the events surrounding what's happening. My first post of this book was a summary and I really made just a few generalizations and just basically said what happened with no background info. it sounded like this," She has an interesting and tough life and gets no help from her mother". I am pretty sure that a lot of girls have tough relationships with their parents so this doesn't really tell the reader anything about the book. One of my later summary posts was much more detailed and I focused in on one or two big scenes instead of making a bunch of very general statements. It sounded like, "She started writing the letter with Patrick's dad Charlie who was very mentally unstable. They couldn't tell anybody about his condition because they didn't want him to get hauled off to an asylum." This is much more detailed and gives the reader more knowledge about the particular situation that the main character is in.

          Overall I have enjoyed blogging and wish I had started it sooner because it really does help me keep track of events in the book. I do think the quality of my posts increased throughout the trimester going from little, general statements, to more detailed sentences that tells the reader much more about the book.