The Reflections Of Julius Caesar
When one gets stabbed multiple times you learn to just deal with it. I feel like this is a good representation of my experience in this class. The conspiracy of the Roman Empire was just as shocking as finding out the principle did not place me into Mrs. Martell’s creative writing class. I was thoroughly betrayed just as Julius Caesar was betrayed when the conspiracy from the Roman Empire led to him dying. Although his death did not teach Julius much I feel my experience in this class has taught me a few things. One of the first things that I learned was how to analyze a book for different creative aspects. A creative aspect can be anything from how much detail the author uses to what perspective the story is in. Another thing I learned from my independent reading was how to add in tricks of the trade into my stories without making them over obvious and sound weird. The tension that Julius felt between him and the Senate could only be compared to the tension I had against writing poetry. I had only ever read poetry before this class and although I loved reading poetry and I had a deep hatred for writing poetry. This class showed me that Although I developed more skills to write poetry, I found the amount of time I spent on trying to write poetry could have been used on much more efficient things. My writing time in this class helped me create some of the best pieces I have ever written. Not unlike when Julius Caesar crafted the denarius coin my work was a thing of beauty that was underappreciated by others. I found sharing my work aloud in this class to be very hard because of all the people in the class that I didn’t know. I knew how good my pieces were but I didn’t know if the class would appreciate my work and I felt like after I read them that not a lot of people liked them. This taught me as a writer to share my work with a lot of people. My feelings about this class just showed me that although they might not like my writing the only thing that matters is I presented a piece to them that I was confident in and wanted to share. This has helped shape my writing by making me more confident. Brutus was Julius Caesar best friend and Ayleana was mine. Brutus had a deep love for Rome just as Ayleana has a deep love for writing and this was something that influenced me. The feedback Ayleana would give me was always very detailed and was paired with a compliment. This feedback really helped me improve my writing in a sophisticated way. The betrayal of the Empire left a sour taste in my mouth. I came into this class with a bad attitude because I didn’t get the teacher I thought I would. This influenced me by not putting effort into my work and giving me a bad attitude about the class. Something I could have done better was come into the glass with a better attitude about having new experiences to learn. I feel if I would have done this I would have been more successful in this class. This class showed me how much my attitude affected my work. I feel you could improve this course by making it more open. This class if meant to be free of judgement and is meant to help people get their creativity flowing, but often times felt restricting. I wouldn't have a long poetry unit but instead I would allow for an option of what people want to write about. Include longer writing projects but ask people to be creative in them and use new ideas. Instead of sharing your opinion on people's ideas, I would support whatever they want to write about as long as they thoroughly want to write about it. Although Julius Caesar may be dead, I am not. I have learned from my mistakes in this class and will apply what I have learned to future classes to come. Although I related to Julius Caesar on a deep level I would rise to meet the crowd instead of making them come to my throne. Thus in turn I can say I have learned from Julius’s mistakes and shall not end up with 27 stab wounds.
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