REFLECTION ON A READING WORKSHOP

So on Friday the 16^th of August 2019 the first year journalism class was in a reading workshop. Some of the class members came with poems which they found on the internet and they shared them with the class. The class then had to identify what is it that caught their attention in those poems as they were read. Well in those poems even though they were not bought nor written by the same person but they had something in common. Their lecturer then also came with his short stories and were read in class. Also in those short stories they had to identify what they liked and also what they didn’t. The short stories were all written in different styles, some were dream stories, where an unborn child would talk, and some were reality stories. It was fun for the journalism class listening to those stories as the stories allowed them to explore a bit deeper to the world of dreaming through the mind of the author of those stories.
 This workshop was designed for the 1st year journalism class to have a clear idea on what they will be writing with the Lujiza primary school children and also what style each person and his/her adopted child will choose to adopt when writing the story or a poem. Attending the workshop was much of a great help in assisting them with writing of the stories. They enjoyed the whole session, it was so fun and they learnt a lot of things that some of them didn’t know about. 
The workshop taught them to fall in love with writing at large. Having to attend the reading workshop helped them as they have gained more knowledge in things to look for as an author when compiling your own story.
They can`t wait to start writing with the children!!!