Metacognition: Short Story

So far, I've enjoyed writing my short story for the most part. But, there have been a couple things bugging me while I was writing. One is that I've done nothing with the language and sentence structure. Form is content has been one of the major themes of our english class and I'm worried that my story may end up poorly written and distract from a (hopefully) good plot. The other thing that has got me a little bit worried is the "meaning" of my story. I know Mr. Allen/you told us not to write a story with a "lesson" or moral. I think that my ending my be a little to obvious as to what my character took from the events of the story. I don't know if I'm supposed to spell out what he gained from his experience or not. And if I am not supposed to say it, then I'm worried I won't be able to write so that the reader will get it.

However, other than that, I'd say my experience with writing a short story has gone rather smoothly.

Metacognition: Jane Eyre Project

When we first heard about this project, I was a little worried about to how my group and I were going to do it. I didn't feel like each of us being a character would work well especially, since Jane and Charlotte would have the same things to say. I know we didn't want to involve both characters simply by connecting to Sophie's World and discussing the author-character relationship because that's not what our transcript was supposed to be about. If we each worked separately on one google doc, collaborating would be very difficult because our schedules don't really allow for all three of us to be editing at the same time to bounce ideas back off of each other. In the end, we decided to meet for a while over the weekend at Brandon's house. The beginning was difficult. We were not supposed to include the introductory small talk, so we just had to dive right in. Before we did that, though, we found six quotes to include that we thought provided insight into our topic, a general theory of love. These helped us figure out what we were going have our characters during the conversation. During the writing process, our collaboration was awesome. Everyone participated equally and the communication was great while we were writing. Often times, someone would suggest something and someone else would add onto or change it slightly. This process led us to creating what I think was a great transcript.