Semester so Far

Overall I think the semester is going ok.  I feel like the blogs are beneficial because they start to get you thinking about the story and what was really happening in it.  I also like the grammar guides and feel like they help a lot.  They are way better than searching through your paper looking for mistakes.  The grammar guides help you to realize why things should be this way and not that way.  The gists I'm kind of neutral on.  I feel like some of them help me and others really don't.  Some of the stories that we have read I had a really hard time trying to come up with a topic for the gist, but other stories such as the gist over "The White Heron" helped to give me a possible topic for my second paper.  The only thing I really don't like this semester is peer review.  I find it not to be much help, but I really don't know how it could be fixed.  I also really like our class discussions because it gives you other people's perspectives on the story that you may not have thought of yourself.  I believe the class discussions help the open your eyes to other people's opinions and perspectives on the stories instead of being super narrow-minded and believing your perspective was the right and only one.