Blog Writing Begins!

1) What is reflective writing? 


Reflection is a form of personal response to 
experiences, situations, events or new information. 
It is a ‘processing’ phase where thinking and learning 
take place. There is neither a right nor a wrong way 
of reflective thinking, there are just questions to 
explore. 


Reflective writing is:
• your response to experiences, opinions, events or new information
• your response to thoughts and feelings
• a way of thinking to explore your learning
• an opportunity to gain self-knowledge
• a way to achieve clarity and better understanding of what you are learning and thinking about in class
• a chance to develop and reinforce writing skills
• a way of making meaning out of what you read and discuss in class

Reflective writing is not:
• just conveying information, instruction or argument
• pure description, though there may be descriptive elements
• straightforward decision or judgement (e.g. about whether something is right or wrong, good or bad)
• a summary of course notes
• a standard formal essay

2) Your Matrix Response - what did you decide that our world shares in common with the dystopian world in The Matrix? 

3) The Hero's Quest - read it over and discuss. How was Neo's journey a classic her's quest? Write notes on page one beside each step to show what happened in the movie. Work together.

4) Blog Writing Topics: (Drafting Lab is booked)

How is our world like the Matrix?

or

How has your life been a hero's quest so far? (Use Neo as a character foil and compare your struggles to his, if you like.)

Minimum of 8 sentences - for tomorrow.

(If your blog is still not up and running, or you forgot the password, just write in a google doc or a Word doc for now)