Unit 4 Portfolio

Before the recording of the essay for speeches at school or any public speaking I would get very nervous and stutter my words. Recording the personal essay took many tries but, made me realize it gets easier with more practice. I have learnt that reading your speech/essay out loud over and over can help the clarity of my speech. One thing I need to improve on is taking longer pauses in between paragraphs and periods. I plan to do this by counting to 5 in my head before beginning the next sentence and to 10 before beginning the next paragraph.

The short story chart taught me to be more thoughtful to what I'm reading. For example before when I was reading I didn't think about character archetypes or Atmosphere ect. Now when I read a story I look for these things which makes the story more detailed and I have more of a sense on what the author was trying to convey. I would like to improve on my knowledge of sub-genres of horror. I only studied phycological this course this was partly by accident but mostly because I am drawn to phycological thrillers as they are my favourite stories or film. I would like to learn about moral allegory and the fantastic. I plan to do this by watching a movie from one of those sub-genres and thinking about the questions on this chart.

Before the q chart I never thought to think about the questions I should ask myself before I ask myself them. It taught me to think about all of the possible questions in every possible way because you never know when you could miss an important question. I feel like the q-chart specifically helped me with my research report as it made me answer all the possible questions the reader could have had. I think I could improve on more in-depth questions, I will do this by making more q-charts for future assignments.

Before making the comic strip I didn't understand character, setting or plot archetypes. I learnt that these are common themes used in every movie or story. I enjoyed making my comic strip with the different archetypes. I think I could improve on my knowledge of in-depth archetypes and different kinds of archetypes. I will do this by thinking about similarities between different stories next time I'm reading a story or watching a movie.