Famous Last Words: Midterms in Full Swing

This week, although I enjoyed the Native American unit, I actually enjoyed my extra credit reading more. I'm not sure if it's because of the HEART post I did with it that required me to read it aloud, or if it was the subject matter. The moral dilemma of the Chinese story of the fake sacrifices to the river god is really sticking with me. I'll probably end up doing my story retelling this upcoming week over it.

I didn't really do any writing for this class this week, as I did a StoryLab and revisions instead. I have to say, I feel a lot better about my story after completing revisions and looking at comments from classmates on what I have so far. I'm thinking I might try to get the next two completed in one go before my other classes pick up too much speed, and while I'm feeling good about the story as a whole.

I feel like I've read some really excellent writing this week in class, and most of them had to do with choosing unexpected narrators. While I can't really utilize this strategy in my storybook since I've made it first-person, I might play around with that in the story retellings.

My other classes are so-so at the moment, midterms are starting to take a toll on my GPA and on my free time. I have a massive paper due in the upcoming weeks that I have yet to start, and the feedback I've gotten from my professor on my outline was less than ideal.

Next week, I'm hoping to (as always) get ahead so that I can make sure I'm allowing myself enough time to do work I'm happy with. I also need to work on being proactive in my other classes, especially with finals looming ever closer.

(River landscape by Liu Zhi, from the Chinese extra credit reading I did this week)

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