Poetry appreciation

I think that I have been able to appreciate poems more. Before our class did some analyzing poems, I did not know what poems talk about usually. Furthermore, I have also learned the different methods that are commonly used by the poets to express their feelings like using sound words, words that rhymes, simile, metaphors... I have also learn the different types of poem. For example: Haiku, which has 5 syllabus in the first line, then 7 syllabus in the second, and lastly 5 syllabus again. Some of the poems are in a more serious style and have rhymes in the poem whereas some are free-verse. Personally, I prefer the serious style of writing as that is easier to read and understand. I like one of the poems that we go through on the daffodils very much as it really makes me visualize the scene of the poem. The poet describe the daffodils using similes like stars, milky way. Therefore, I think that we should discuss and analyze more poems in class together.

2 Things I learn in Language Arts

I think that I have learnt how to do comprehension in a more effective way. Firstly, I have never done the way to analyze a passage that Mr. Lundberg teaches us. I find it very effective. The method is write down 3 general ideas that you can observe from the passage. Next, you would need to highlight the main points of the passage. For those vocabulary questions that you might not know the meaning of the word, you would need to see the context of the sentence. Other than that, you can still is the prefixes, suffixes, and the root word of the word so as to guess the meaning. This method of guessing the meaning could be also used in reading storybooks as I would feel tired to check the dictionary if you see any words that you do not know in the passage especially when there is a lot of new words. Therefore, I think that my comprehension and summary writing is improving!

Next I also think that I have learnt to write better especially writing blogs. Blogs is just like writing a journal which everybody can see. Therefore, we must be very careful of what we post. We have also learnt in one of the Language Arts lesson not to pst racist comments on blogs. and we have also went through one incident about a person posting racist comments on blog. This people might want to make their blogs seem more interesting and attract more readers but they should also know what to say. Now, after writing different types of blog posts relating to the school, I think that I can write more fluently now as compared to previously and it is also easier to express my thoughts! Now, writing blogs is not a type of homework to me and I feel that it is more to a relaxation. However, I also hope that we should not be restricted to write only about things related to the school as I think that we should be exposed to write different things.