- Description of Assignment / Work: This was one of the 5 big grades of the English 104 college class. Our job was to pick 3 poems, excluding the message poem and the Fred personification. My Fred (the source of the imagination in these poems) is named Jones. He looks a lot like the Fred from the Scooby Doo adaptation, except he's Indian and lives in Helena Montana in the suburbs. I wrote a poem describing Byron's facial features and possessions, a poem about the color green, and bricks.
- What are you most proud of from this assignment, and why? I didn't have much faith in myself because this was my first submission, but what I was most proud of was the template, the metaphors, the verb tense clean up, and the personification. Mr. Wood said I needed some clean up on most of them, so I did just that.
- What was most difficult about completing this task? There were times where I hadn't listened to Jones and just sat at my computer for minutes. I wanted to find unique ways to describe the color green and bricks poetically without explaining and using the five senses.
- How could you improve this work? If you could start over, what would you do different? I could improve this work by being more specific about dealing with Jones. I could sit down in an interrogation room, making me look like a detective. If I could start over, I would identify the verb tense in the Byron poem and stick to it. I would make music (assonance).
- How does this relate to what you have learned in the past? How can you apply this to future learning? This work sample relates to what I have learned in the past because it uses some of Mr. Goring's teachings in the second semester when we focused on poetry. Mr. Wood's concepts just amplifies what I've learned and takes it to a new level. For example, he focuses on the syllable rhythm in all the stanzas.
- Which 21st Century Skill do you feel this assignment addresses, and why? How did you develop and/or improve upon your 21st Century Skill with this assignment? This assignment addresses Thinking and Problem Solving Skills because it involves feeding your Fred information and trusting it, in order to overcome writer's block, the main problem that weighs us down. Thanks to Mr. Wood's introduction to Fred, I was able to use my thinking (imagination) more effectively in order to stop staring blankly at the computer.