Well week 8 is almost over. I just can’t believe that in 3 weeks school will start back. I don’t know what is with this week but I am extremely tired. My brain is very tired and it needs to take a rest. My goal this week was to get all the assignments done and start revising my genres by Thursday. I wanted them done by Thursday because Thursday is my birthday, and Friday I have to work from 8:00-4:00 and then right after work I am leaving to go white water rafting with my friends. So I wanted to get the majority of everything done before I left. Well I got my assignments done and I have done my first revisions to my power point, letter to the editor, journal, and I am poem, and added a site to my webliogrpahy. I still need to do my interview. I want to add one more activity. I say first revision because I will probably revise them several times before the due date of the MRP. In fact I already have revised my journal and power point at least 2 times. I keep adding and deleting things. I had a great birthday. I ended up getting off work early and my mom sister and grandma were able to meet me at the mall. So we went to the mall and ate. Which was fun because my grandma has not been to mall for about 2 years. So it was good for her to get out of the house.

This weeks assignments we were to start drafting the preface, acknowledgements, and about the author pieces that will be included in the MRP. We were to peer review the last 2 genres of our group members.

First I did the preface. Which in my preface I included why I chose the topic, and I explained all of my genres which included identifying the voice and audience of my genres. When I sat down to do the preface I had a major brain freeze. I went to answer the part of why I chose this topic and its like I knew why I did but I just could not explain it. It was like I had so many reasons why I wanted to do the project that it was hard to come up with a good explanation. I bet I changed my preface a dozen times. Finally I was able to explain clearly why I chose my topic. Then the rest of the preface was not as hard. The second part was actually very similar to my prospectus because we had to explain why we chose that voice and what do we want to accomplish with the voice. I referred back to the prospectus but added some more information. Then I did the author section, which was not that bad. I just gave information about my self to let the readers know who I am. Then I did the acknowledgements which is were I just thanked the people that helped me. Which I think a lot of people has been extremely helpful. Also this week I started revising my genres. I have most of them revised but I will probably continue to revise them. I do want to add a little bit more information to my PowerPoint and interview. I found some more information and I added that to my PowerPoint. I am still working on my journal entry. I added some more information to my letter to the editor and I decided to put my letter to the editor in columns and scan so it would look more like a real letter to the editor. I went to the library to make it a pdf file but when I scanned it I had somethings in color but when I e-mailed to myself it was all one color. That wasn’t too big of a deal. Also, when I scanned it to myself some of the website address that I had included in my letter was blurry and you could not make them out. So I am going to go back and re-scan it. I also decided to start adding links in my journal entry so that you can access my genres from my journal entries. That took a little bit of time I messed up the codes I put instead of > name so I had to go back and fix my mistake. I enjoyed doing the peer reviews. I can really see everyone in my groups projects to start coming together. I also enjoying reviewing because each one of us can have the same genre but we approach it in a very different way. I think that is very interesting.

Another thing that we did this week was meet at the moo. We were to get in groups and talk to teachers and let them know a little bit about how this MRP works. I was really nervous about this moo session.It was not that bad. I think our group started off well and then after awhile it went kind of downhill and all they wanted to talk about was coal mining. I don’t think they were that interested in the MRP. I think they liked the idea of the project but they thought it was a lot of work. Which it is a lot of work but I think the work will pay off in the long run.

Questions: I don’t have any for right now.