Whole Class Workshop

Having the whole class workshop is definitely a new experience. I found it to be a little nerve racking myself even though my poem was not one of the poems being work shopped today. I think that sharing the ideas in front of the entire class and working together as a whole class is better for the experience. I think that i is nice for the authors of these poems because it is four times as many eyes looking at the authors poem and offering their input and experiences with the poem. I think this allows for more of a variation of answers and responses to your poems and it also presents you with that many more ways to change/fix your poem. This really I feel helped out our experience with this new type of workshop and I also feel the same as Kevin, in the fact that I felt like everyone got the critiques that they were looking for. I also enjoyed hearing the different comments people had to say, and to me it seemed like everyone had a well thought out way of critiquing people. I liked these differences because it comes from all of the different experiences we have had in our lives and how we can relate to these poems. By the way all of the poems I thought showed a tremendous amount of work and effort put into them. I feel this really showed in the quality of the poems that we had to work shop for today. I am exited for Thursday's work shop as I am sure it will be very interesting and exciting.