If He Had Been With Me (2)

 Entry 58:

Review

Topic: If He Had Been With Me

    Like the last blog that I posted, I talked about this book. I have been thinking about things to talk about for this blog and this book has been heavy on my mind. In the beginning of this book, with the title of this book, you know that at the end and throughout the book it is building up to a tragic end. How the author portrays events and tells the story is beautiful all throughout. When I finished this book, while crying, I still for some reason almost decided to go back over it. Read it all over again, but this time take time to reflect and take notes for discussion- I have not read it again but it is that good. 

    In this book, the story is told in what some may call flashbacks and there are time skips, because she is referring to "Before"- you would not know if you do not pay attention that this book went from current time, then went to memories and is building up to tell you the story. This book is a love story, "if he had been with me" tells us what happened but does not actually provide an alternative story to if he had been with her. It is telling us the past, what actually happened but it does briefly address how everything could be different had he been with her. This is a very deep love story that does not last long but also kind of did. The authors goal was to show that time is not always granted, and to love people while you have them because you never know what the future holds. The book did just that- my heart was hurting over this book at 4 am. 

If He Had Been With Me

 Entry 57

Reflection 

Topic: Book Review

    Over this week, I found time to sit down and read a book in its entirety. The book is titled "If He Had Been With Me" and was written by Laura Nowlin. I would recommend this book to anyone, it is a pretty realistic book in terms of feelings and emotions. This book made me bawl my eyes out at the ending, and while I do not want to spoil it there are some things that I just need to get off of my chest about this book. 

    Throughout the book, there was a lot of inner battles within the characters. The mother has depression, the father is rarely in her life, she loses friends over the years and gains friends back. There is a lot of realistic problems within the book, but the way it was all put together made a beautiful story. One of the main things that I noticed in the book would be the main character, Autumn, you can see she is a young girl trying to figure herself out and to fit in. She feels like she is an outcast and she tries so hard to fit in with the other "misfits", she dates a guy who makes her happy, but she is not in love with. She tells herself when she loses feelings, to just stay because he makes her happy and she will love him again one day. I think that this is a serious problem that she maybe could have avoided. It bothered me all throughout the book, I have felt like this before. Just staying somewhere that I just feel content, not happy but just okay so I do not hurt anyones feelings. 

    The main goal of the authors was to create a realistic style book, with real problems and a love story embedded in it. They did an amazing job at that and I fully recommend this book. It just made me realize somethings about myself while reading because I felt a lot of similarities with some of these characters. 

Peer Review, Project 3

 Entry 56:

Reflection

Topic: Peer Review of Project 3. 

    Going into my peer reviews for project three, I thought it would be hard to comment on poster like projects because there would be less to talk about, especially if there were multiple partners. However, it was very easy. I could tell them to perhaps add an explanation for something, or add pictures where there was too much open space, there was many things to comment to help them achieve the best project that they could do. Many peers had amazing papers with amazing multimodal designs this week. Perfection in time for the Celebration of Student Writing. 

Reflective Interaction

 Entry 55:

Reflection

Topic: Reflective Interaction

    In this course, we have gotten to interact with several of our peers. We got to give them feedback and interact with a lot of their work as they got to do with ours as well. This is a good way to help students, reflect on mistakes and errors of their own and see what they can help other students correct or praise as well. This is a course outcome that has been worked on throughout several projects. 

Multimodal Design

 Entry 54:

Reflection

Topic: Multimodal Design

    Upon first hearing and learning about multimodal designs, I was insanely confused as to what exactly this was. Now, I have a better understanding as I work on project 3. This is one of many course outcomes we have been working on all semester and it is important to know that there are several ways to do one. Most of my confusion on the topic was that there was only one specific way to do this when in reality, there are several ways to do one. Sometimes, asking for help is what you need to do. 

Live and learn

Entry 53

Reflection

Topic: "Live and Learn"

    One thing people seem to often forget is that we are all human and that we all make a mistake. Life is about making mistakes, we all make a mistake eventually whether it is big or small. How people, including ourselves, react can determine how we treat making the same mistake again later. Live and learn to me means that we know it is okay to make a mistake, we can correct it or just walk it off- but we should not judge ourselves or others for their mistakes. Unless someone else was hurt intentionally- that is not really a mistake though I guess. No one is perfect and I think that is what live and learn truly means. We should all keep in mind that mistakes are bound to happen, we are all human and we will never not make at least one mistake.