Lobster Discussion!

I really enjoyed the Lobster discussion because I love reading a book or poem and taking about it to see how everyone thought of it. The point that came up during the discussion that really surprised was the topic of death. Because the first couple of times I read through the poem, I didn't think that the lobsters where actually dyeing. I guess I hate death so when I read about death I just don’t put two and two together. So I was really surprised when people said that the first time they read through the poem they thought it was gory and all about death because I took the poem in a total different way. I am not trying to pick the obvious idea; it is just what I really was surprised with!

My new thoughts about the poem is that the author wanted the reader to see both sides of the lobsters life, that they hare taken out of their environment and throw into a tank to die but they also have no idea what their fate is. So there is good and bad in the life of a lobster. And after the discussion I see everyone's perspectives. And without the discussion I would still be in my own little thinking box and not knowing the whole meaning of this complex but simple poem.

So many paragraphs, So many skills

Well since attending Olympia everyone, including myself was thrown into the 5 part paragraph form that every student has to use. At first I was confused and didn't understand why in the world the school was making us write in this foreign form. But after listening to the class present, I saw that everyone learns the same thing but everyone takes the paragraph in a different way. For the most part, people really understood commentary because that is where they inject their own personality. The only thing that was said about commentary was that some people wrote too much plot summary, which is the author's thoughts and not their own. The other point that was brought up often was all about quotes. If seemed that either you didn't embed them properly or your quotes just weren't creative or different. But all of that is just the learning process and no one's paragraph was perfect.
I think that one my paragraph I should have picked more creative transitions and not forgotten the ending transition! I was so focused on the rest of the paragraph being the best that I let the transitions slip. Which I now know makes the class comment, a lot. But over all I think that I understood the 5 part paragraph and will be able to do others' in the future.