June 24, 2024June 24, 2024 by Claire

My Inquiry About Poetry

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Inquiry Reflection

For my inquiry I wrote 24 poems in a collection I titled ‘A poem for every hour I waste a day.’ It was an inquiry dedicated to developing my knowledge of poetry and my overall goal was to fight writers block by holding myself accountable and driven. My final product is something I am extremely proud of. It took a long time to complete, a lot of brain storming, tons of writing and rewriting, and a shocking amount of editing. I found that I have developed much more confidence in my own abilities and got my revised plan accomplished in a satisfying way. I really enjoyed the editing of my poems because it lacked the stress of having to write an entirely new poem but still held the creative aspect. This creative aspect was something I was glad to explore and I enjoyed diving deeper into my interest in the subject. I look forward to rereading my inquiry in a few years and analyzing how my subject matter, views, and poetic devices have changed or stayed the same. It was overall a great way to lay big emotions out to process and share.

Core Competency Reflection

Personal Identity & Communication in Poetry

Poetry is a deeply personal thing but I found that every single poem was also a lesson in communication. It was a fine line between tell vs imply and in my opinion I usually struck the balance in my poems. Some poems would’ve made no sense to a reader because they were deeply personal and vague but others balanced out by being more understandable and simple. Poetry allowed my to look at myself because of the emotions my poems drew from. It was an amazing way to vent some of my issues while practicing my communication of those issues. I needed to read every poem carefully and imagine how the words on the page may be received by someone without my personal experiences. If it seemed confusing without my own context I would edit, unless I wanted the poem to be purposefully extremely confusing, which I did do a few times to stay true to the goal of writing personal poems that meant something to myself. The project was an outlet that allowed me practice in communicating myself to others.

June 18, 2024June 18, 2024 by Claire

Core Competency Self-Assessment

DO NOT read if you DO NOT want to see worm guts – ‘artifact’ at bottom of post

Communication and Collaboration

We did several dissections in the animal unit but the worm dissection was the one that required the most collaboration. It was a partner dissection and needed to have the work divided in a functional way. Me and my partner found it easier if one person solely focused on cutting and the other focused on suction and pinning. We were easily able to complete the lab this way and it allowed for simpler communication when discussing the location of organs while proceeding with the lab. It made less need for movement while completing the lab and also meant that there was less passing of tools all contributing to a safer work space.

Critical Thinking

The worm dissection gave us an opportunity to see a digestion tract with similarities to our own. We observed diagrams and compared them to figure out where things were located inside the worm. This was slightly more difficult than I would’ve thought because every chart is obviously more clear and segmented than an actual worm where everything is slightly similar in color. We learnt most of the functions of each organ in class but when labelling some organs I had to go to the textbook to get an actual understanding of what I was explaining. Next time I would’ve loved to know a trick to dissect the worm in order to preserve the pseudo hearts.

Personal Awareness

I found dissecting the worm slightly sickening but was able to put it aside because I knew it was a great learning opportunity. At first I really hated cutting into the worm but as the lab progressed I felt less uncomfortable with the slight gore. I would say this lab was a good example of taking ownership for my learning because it was optional to participate in the actual dissection. I did not need to if I didn’t want to but I decided that I would fight my slight discomfort in order to get a valuable experience out of it. I also know that I developed this skill because I continued fighting my slight discomfort when we did the squid and mussel dissections because I knew that these were also important.