This was a solo project. It was a small project but it ate through a lot of our time. My group was just me but I had plenty of critiquers. Devon and Michelle helped me a lot in this project. Giving me feedback of things I could change and fixing any grammar errors that were somehow mixed. I'm very glad that I got actual good critique as 8th grade proved that people didn't care about critique. My book wouldn't have been anywhere near how good I consider it right now. They prevented me from making a lot of dumb mistakes.
What we learned plenty of was how to write good books. We went through multiple lessons explaining what first, second, and third person stories were like. How to write proper poems, making sure they sound good and look good. We also read multiple short stories about an assortment of things. The outcomes of the lessons help me create a 5000 word story about cuckoo clocks which somehow has a good mix of comedy and horror. The horror was completely unintentional but I kept it anyway as it made the story better. I was not given the best critique that I was not hoping for but I got lucky and had people not too far help me. One of the four public critiques I got was: "I'm cuckoo for cuckoo clocks." which was totally helpful.
How to give better critique was given but not many students kept it too heart. It was a mess trying to get critique so I quickly moved on to get some from those older than, usually family, and I also got some people from the other team to critique for me which I'm really glad about
I did not let up on creating my story. I kept working as I was into the story. We were required to type at least 500 words but I ended up typing ten times more than that, coming up to be around 5000 words. It was a story that I wished I could have made longer, but the deadline made that impossible. I could have made the story a lot like the walking dead. Sadly, I didn't think of this until a day before the dead line. Obviously, mine wasn't the best. I read several others and the ideas were all over the place. Some one did one based off a game. They did a good job at hiding the fact that it was loosely based off of it as it takes place in a house of a women reading the news about the video game's main plot.
Both me and my Cooked partner were praised for our books. They were said to have a great creative touch and to have great plots. My partner wrote a personal essay which was really depressing. The entire exhibition, I was spent. Exhausted from the 5000 words. I still wanted to make it better though, but I knew it was too late for that. I did happen to make that clear to my partner though. I don't think she enjoyed my ranting as much as I did. I would say that a A would be worthy of my story. It was a great story, plenty of creative areas and just the shear length of it was good. The grammar though, oh boy, it was all over the place. Run on sentences, wrong words in wrong places, wrong tenses for words. Plus other errors that I somehow overlooked. I still am curious about why we added this to the cooked project.
What we learned plenty of was how to write good books. We went through multiple lessons explaining what first, second, and third person stories were like. How to write proper poems, making sure they sound good and look good. We also read multiple short stories about an assortment of things. The outcomes of the lessons help me create a 5000 word story about cuckoo clocks which somehow has a good mix of comedy and horror. The horror was completely unintentional but I kept it anyway as it made the story better. I was not given the best critique that I was not hoping for but I got lucky and had people not too far help me. One of the four public critiques I got was: "I'm cuckoo for cuckoo clocks." which was totally helpful.
How to give better critique was given but not many students kept it too heart. It was a mess trying to get critique so I quickly moved on to get some from those older than, usually family, and I also got some people from the other team to critique for me which I'm really glad about
I did not let up on creating my story. I kept working as I was into the story. We were required to type at least 500 words but I ended up typing ten times more than that, coming up to be around 5000 words. It was a story that I wished I could have made longer, but the deadline made that impossible. I could have made the story a lot like the walking dead. Sadly, I didn't think of this until a day before the dead line. Obviously, mine wasn't the best. I read several others and the ideas were all over the place. Some one did one based off a game. They did a good job at hiding the fact that it was loosely based off of it as it takes place in a house of a women reading the news about the video game's main plot.
Both me and my Cooked partner were praised for our books. They were said to have a great creative touch and to have great plots. My partner wrote a personal essay which was really depressing. The entire exhibition, I was spent. Exhausted from the 5000 words. I still wanted to make it better though, but I knew it was too late for that. I did happen to make that clear to my partner though. I don't think she enjoyed my ranting as much as I did. I would say that a A would be worthy of my story. It was a great story, plenty of creative areas and just the shear length of it was good. The grammar though, oh boy, it was all over the place. Run on sentences, wrong words in wrong places, wrong tenses for words. Plus other errors that I somehow overlooked. I still am curious about why we added this to the cooked project.