Reflection Essay

This blog is a reflection on what and how much I have learned about the Holocaust. It pulls from several different genres to create the finished product. In this blog are short essays, research paper, collage, and poetry. I have learned a great deal of information about the Holocaust and the time period surrounding the Holocaust.
My favorite piece in this blog would have to be the “I am from” poem. It is my favorite because I got to put a lot of myself into it and really express some things that people might not know about. It felt really good to write it and it was surprisingly extremely easy to write. I normally struggle with talking about myself or expressing my feelings but with this poem it just came naturally which was a sort of relief.
Another genre in my blog is the research paper. I struggled mightily with writing the paper, as I had no inspiration whatsoever. It was just a class assignment I had to get through. However, I did learn quite a bit through the research and reading which comes with writing a research paper. This opened my eyes a little more to how terrible of a tragedy the Holocaust was.
My least favorite genre in this blog is the collage. It was mainly just another genre that I had to put in and I did not put a lot of effort or time into it. I think it definitely showed that I disliked putting it together. It was certainly not one of my finer pieces of work as anyone who has seen my projects can tell.
A genre that I really enjoyed and put a considerable amount of work into is the forgiveness essay. It was not a major challenge for me because I got to write about my opinion on the subject of forgiveness. This made it fairly simple to complete this genre as I did not have to research and get other opinions and facts about forgiveness.
“The Wannsee Conference” is a short essay. I did not have many problems in getting the information to write this essay. I found a good source and just pulled all my ideas from there. I think I did well on this because it was something I got to choose and work on in my own time.
The last piece in my blog is a poem called “Inside a Nazi Camp.” This poem was a little harder to write than the “I am from” poem. However, once I got going it was easy to finish up. The only problem I had was to figure out when and how to end it; the rest was easy.