Tracing Pages Reflection
My reflection of my tracing pages essay.
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My Optimism Tracker
When do I feel most optimistic and how does that impact my day? From this assignment, I’ve uncovered some insightful conclusions about myself. Initially, my goal was to monitor my optimism, which I defined as how positive I felt about myself, the world around me, and my overall state of mind. I wanted to identify […]
Read moreSketch 8: Data viz from everyday life
When I began to collect my data, I wanted to know if I was living a properly balanced life. I wanted to find out if I was managing school, work, and social life effectively. I mainly wanted to see how this balance affected my stress levels and if my stress levels affected my hunger. After […]
Read moreLiteracy Narrative Part 2 Reflection Post
When I turned my literacy narrative into a comic, a lot of things changed. The comic unintentionally became a reflective book that analyzes how my identity affects the way that I read. I was expecting myself to write a chronological story about my experience with literature, but that was not the way my story turned […]
Read moreSketch 5: Triptych
I wanted to make something humorous yet relatable to everybody for this triptych; therefore, my triptych is about how sometimes we have to repeat ourselves when we’re talking to someone that is playing their phone. I would say that the challenging part about this assignment would be the part where we should have fun with […]
Read moreReflections On Literacy Narrative 2
Turning my literacy narrative into a comic shifted my perspective and emphasized the power of visual storytelling to capture emotions in simpler, yet impactful ways. Writing the narrative allowed me to immerse myself in sensory details, but the comic forced me to distill these memories into images, that could convey the same emotions better. Thinking […]
Read moreReflections On Comparison Essay
Tracing and annotating pages from Stitches and Spinning was an interesting experience that pushed me to engage deeply with the authors’ storytelling techniques. By focusing on how David Small and Tillie Walden used elements like facial expressions, body language, and layouts, I could appreciate the subtle ways they convey trauma and isolation. Tracing revealed how […]
Read moreReflections on Literacy Narrative 1
Reflecting on my Literacy Narrative was a nostalgic journey that deepened my appreciation for how family shaped my love for language. My writing process began with freewriting, which felt unfamiliar, as I’m used to organizing my thoughts first. But allowing myself to record memories freely brought a natural flow to my writing, revealing details like […]
Read moreLiteracy Comic reflection
My Literary Comic can be found here. Making the literacy comic was definitely a learning experience. Before now, i had never made a comic before. I think it would have been much harder to draw the comic if I had not written the literacy narrative beforehand. The biggest obstacle I had while creating the literacy […]
Read moreLiteracy Comic Reflection
Link to: Literacy Narrative, Part 2: Comic If I had to sum up my experience creating my Literacy Comic in one word, it would be “enlightening.” This is my first time making a comic and my first time making any type of graphic project in an English class. When we did Literacy Narrative 1, it was […]
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