Hannah Sexton
WRT 150
Lauren Rinke
10-12-12
Process
Memo
When I sat down in class and started to think it was a
little bit difficult for me to figure out where to start because I couldn’t
remember much before 1st grade so I figured that would be the best
place to start. Something interesting I found or remembered when I was making
my timeline was that I was really into reading for quite some time until I
began to dislike it in 6th grade. There wasn’t much of a set theme I
think in my timeline, other than the fact that I loved books up to a certain
point. It was difficult to pick one type of thing to talk about, because I had
a bunch on my timeline I wanted to put it all in my paper but couldn’t, it
would have been very disorganized. I decided what to pick by just figuring out
where my love for reading was lost and explain a little bit before and the a
little bit after that point. Creating the timeline explained that I lost my
love for reading for almost 7 years which isn’t good at all, it makes me very
upset to think about because reading is so important and now that I’m getting
back into it I wish I would have kept my love for reading the whole time. I
figured it would have been best to talk about my struggles with reading rather
than all the reading I used to do because I feel like the struggles I had with
reading was a lot more important and I have a better memory of it than my love
for reading I had before it. It was difficult to center all my thoughts I had
into only a few thoughts, I really struggled with that part of the assignment,
I wanted to put a lot more into my literacy narrative than I could. When I
began to write my narrative I organized it by age and experiences, I began with
my love for reading and how I always read then how I was in the reading class
and struggled all the way into 6th grade which made me lose my love
for reading because I was so embarrassed then to now where I work at a daycare
and read to my children there all the time, now im starting to read again and
love it again. After the first time reading my story and changing a few things
that didn’t make sense it read chronologically. It was difficult to organize my
thoughts into a draft because I had so many of them; I didn’t use much of any
prewriting skills other than brainstorming and my timeline. After the peer review
session I realized a lot of things I had to fix grammatically and I had to fix
some things that made it sound like a real story some things were jumbled. My
partner was very helpful he made some corrections I had missed and gave me more
of an idea on how to break down my story to put it into the animoto slideshow. Some
constructive criticism he gave me was that I needed to change a few things so
it would make better sense and fix some of my grammar mistakes; it was very
helpful I didn’t notice some of the things that he had so it was very helpful
to me. When I was doing my final edits I wasn’t thinking about how I was going
to turn it into a slideshow because I had so much information in my narrative I
didn’t know how to narrow it down. It didn’t really alter it at all because I wasn’t
thinking about making the slideshow as I was writing my narrative. I believe my
partner did choose the best sentences in my paper for my slideshow; I used all
of them a little bit more because I felt like there should have been a little
information in there than he suggested. I found it very difficult to get my
sentences down to only 52 characters per slide, I had a lot more information I wanted
to put into a slide but I either had to cut it out or make it into two
different slides. My strategy was to figure out different ways to say the
things I wanted to say to make them shorter but to also make sure they made
sense, it took me a little bit of time to get the text slides done just because
of that factor. I used images I felt would give the audience a better
understanding of my slideshow, I felt like all my pictures made sense with my
text slides and made my slideshow better. I also used some book references as
pictures for example the 1984 picture and the Candide picture. I chose the
images that were in my slideshow because I really liked them and they gave my
slideshow even more detail. Most of the pictures were from the internet but I had
some of my own personal pictures in the slideshow also. They all put a picture
to my slideshow which gave it more detail and a story is always better with
pictures, it makes it more interesting. The song I chose was called Heal up by Cory
Sipper, I chose this song off the animoto site and I felt like it made my
slideshow better because I struggled with reading and the song talks about getting
better and getting there. I wish I would have given more information in my text
slides and had more personal photos rather than pictures from the internet.
