Core competency: Critical thinking

During this assignment, we had to create a free verse poem. I had to use a lot of critical thinking on how to create this poem. This caused me to create the simile, metaphor, and personification. For example, while I was creating this poem I thought about how fogged looked. So I remembered that fog was both in the air and the ground, this brought up the personification of the fog sitting and overlooking the city. Fog cannot actually sit or overlook something. It was hard to do the alliteration because I could not think of words that begin with the same letters. So I decided I wanted to start off with the alliteration using the word fog. This is when I decided to take one word that described fog, which was fluffy. I needed one more word so I decided forecast because fog is a type of weather. That’s when I came up with; a forecast of fluffy fog. I tried my hardest to use critical thinking in this poem and I think it paid off.

I would like to work on…

I feel like I need to work on my creative thinking. This poem seemed basic in my eyes and not very creative. Next time I feel like I can add more thoughtful and creative lines to my poem. I do feel like I could have done better making this more creative.

Core Competencies Reflection

Core Competency: English 9   Creative Thinking

For this assignment, we were asked to re-image act 3 in The Merchant of Venice which is Bassanio picks the casket, Antonio goes to jail escorted by shylock and lastly, Shylock learns about his ring and Jessica sells it for money. I had to experiment with my writing, adding in additional creative details and description to the scene.  I tried to incorporate illustrative language such as reflection and alliteration into my piece as well.

Ways I want to improve are…

I think that I can further improve my writing skills in future assignments by looking at incorporating vocabulary words as well as additional figurative techniques. I also need to improve my sentence vocabulary.