free writing about the class

I thought that the begining of the class was the best.  We had instuctions on how to write those poems and then we still had the freedom to write them about what ever we wanted them to be about.  It was fun to write those poems and know that we would get most of the points for just filling in the build of the poem and not so much about how deep or important the actual words were.  I didnt really like the short story unit since we didnt really have much direction and most of us didnt know what we were doing.  For most of us this was the first story we have to write in a long time and we didnt even know how to start.  You gave us that SciFi story writing web site but it wasnt that usefull to me cause i would rather have someone explain it in words so i can just listen than have to read like twenty pages about it.  I kinda liked the bloging idea for turning in poems and stuff since we could just do it from home too.  The blog also made it very easy to catch back up with the class since the assignments were available to us whenever we wanted them.  But on the other hand i didnt really like the blog since it seems like you dont actually read them.  We write all these poems and journals, and then share them with one other person in class and it seems like nobody actually cares that much about what you wrote about.  It would be better if when you read them you like comment of things we could improve on and actually grade what we say.  I know that contradicts what i said before about liking how we can say whatever we wanted but it seems like we should be graded atleast a little bit on content.  I student aided for Mr. Currie's creative writing class and i would hand back poems that he had hand graded.  He would like show how if you use one word instead of another or switch a couple words around it would really fix some blatant errors.  This class seemed to lack in that perspective.  I really liked the lyric thing because it was a time were we could just chill and think about what we were going to write about while listening to different music that people in the room liked.