Peter's India Blog

I'm certainly not happy with my progress so far. To be honest, I'm in a serious crisis. I have been lagging behind this class since like Week 3 and it had been continuing until last week. That was almost a month worth of missing several assignments and lagging behind in class. I really need to catch up and earn more points by finishing regular assignments on time and doing more extra credit assignments, starting with this Week 8. Otherwise, I'm on ground for failure. Nevertheless, I'm very proud of my truly unique and creative stories. I look them back, read, and re-read the stories I have created, and I'm happy and satisfied every time I read my unique, creative, and authentic stories. I had a good weekly routine up until about Week 2, but I have been lacking from having a good weekly routine. I'm bringing it back to get more assignments done. The kind of assignment that I enjoy the most in this class is story assignments. I'm an extraordinarily cr...

I actually like the comments and feedback I've been receiving from fellow students in this class. They tend to be very thoughtful, considerate, and substantial. The comments and feedback that I've been receiving from my fellow classmates have been improving the quality of my writing in several ways. My classmates have been using smart feedback strategies such as WWW or TAG/Pretend, which prompt them to attentively read my stories and be considerate and thoughtful when leaving comments.  The kind of comments that I personally find most useful is comments that followed the WWW strategy. Specifically, 'I wonder' and 'what if' parts of their comments have made me ponder again about my stories and add more details and fix small flaws in the stories. To be completely honest, I think the quality of comments and feedback that I leave for other students tend to be lesser quality than comments and feedback I receive from other students. I have thoroughly read ...

It's been weeks of reading and writing in this class. I like this class, but there are several readings and writings I need to do. The assignments are really interesting and honestly most stories are pretty fascinating. Overall, I'm pretty satisfied and happy with my blog. My website (Project) has been lagging behind a little bit, but I've done very good revisions on my Portfolio stories. The biggest accomplishment I think I've done in this class is the several creative stories that I've written for story assignments. They become the basis for my portfolio project, and I think they are all interesting and pretty creative. My favorite reading by far is the story of Vali and Sugriva. Although they are both Princes, the brothers have different personalities and motivations. Reading notes definitely help me keep track of the contents of reading and supplement important information when I'm writing new stories. I've employed all the sorts and kinds ...