Assignment 9

Happiness

1. Happiness is a feeling and or emotion that comes from a personal experience, or that comes from another persons experience.

2. Happiness in my life comes from the things I do and the people I'm with. I enjoy playing a lot of different sports, and when I am playing them, I feel content. Also, when I run outside I feel really happy. All my problems go away because I'm only focused on running and enjoying the outside. Not only does a lot of my happiness come from sports, but also my friends and family. My friends and I are always having a good time, whether it be making cookies, rollerblading, going to the pool, or just watching tv, I feel happy with them. With my family I feel happy because we are all so close and we always have a good time no matter what. When holidays come around, my whole family is together. Just being together with them makes me feel happy.

3. My mom is someone who really influences my happiness because I'm with her a lot. Her and I are always laughing and she makes everything fun. She also comforts me when I'm sad or feeling stressed and makes everything okay, even if it's not.

4. I think I have a large impact on my parents happiness. With everything I do, my parents are with me 100 percent and that can effect their happiness because I may not always be happy. I think that my parents feel sad when I'm sad and when something exciting and or happy happens, they feel the same way toward me and for me.

5. My greatest need in life is passion. I think that you must have passion in order to be happy. You need to be passionate about the things you love, and I think that when you love what you do, you are happy.

Assignment 8

Some ideas for Photo Story:
cabin (inspired by a poem)
school- going through the years
summertime (inspired by a poem)
birthdays
weather (inspired by a poem)
traveling (prompt)

Assignment 7

1. What I enjoyed writing most this quarter was poetry. I think it was an opportunity to expand my knowledge on the different kinds of poetry, as well as being able to experiment with these different types. I really liked the metaphor poems because you could extend the metaphor into a poem form, or even use a bunch of different metaphors. I think I enjoyed it most because with poetry, you can write about anything and also because there are so many styles of poetry, you can't go wrong.

2. I would say poetry would be my strongest area of writing this quarter because not only did I enjoy it, but I did well on my poems as well. My favorite poem I wrote was titled, "Look at the Stars". This poem was inspired by the song "Yellow" by Coldplay. I think that poetry is my best because I get inspired from a lot of different things. I write poetry outside of creative writing, and I think that it's why I feel so confident in the subject.

3. This quarter, I learned that I really don't like structure in writing. I really enjoy doing whatever because it's easier to come up with ideas and go outside the box. I think that I'm very self motivated in that I don't need someone pushing me or nagging me to do an assignment.

4. A topic of writing I would most enjoy would be writing a memoir. I think that they are personal which can make them easier to write. I also think it's a good way to express something about yourself. Another area I would enjoy writing in would be plays. I think that we should get together with our writing groups and write a play, and then share them by acting parts out. This would be a fun and creative way to share ideas with our group members.