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Hello reader, this is my reflection on the year I have had in English Nine Advanced. It has been a good year and I have learned a lot. I would say that I am now much better at researching than I was at the beginning of the year. The I-Search was one large research project, and that did most of the helping there. Reading did not change the most for me, I liked reading before and after this year. Perhaps the assignment gave me a little push to get into it, but I needed no more prodding afterwards, I was hooked again. As for my writing, I would like to think I have improved. I have written a lot, between the I-Search, the short story, and I like to write on my own. Hopefully practice makes perfect, and I know reading will helpIf you become a better writer as well.
Most proud of? I would say I am most proud of my I-Search, mainly because of the hard work that went into it. It felt good to have it done, I am glad that all the time I spent on it did not go to waste. I am also proud of my short story, because it was my favorite, as I love to write fiction, as well as read it. There is so much you can do, and you can show things in a new way with it. You are not bound to the limits of reality, and it makes themes and plot much easier to work with if you can control it however you want. Everyone experiences normal In their life everyday, it is what you cannot experience in real life that is fun to read about.
Things worked pretty wellcoming here for me. Language comes somewhat easy to me, well I like to think it does, and I did well overall. Theme was perhaps the hardest part for me. It is tricky to pin it down, and sometimes, normally, it just becomes more summary. I think now at the end of the year I have got it though. You have to talk about the theme, not just how it is shown, or what it means contextually. If it is destiny, don't talk about how destiny is used in Romeo and Juliet, just write about Destiny itself. That was what I was missing earlier in the year, and hopefully I can apply this later on in my writing career.
I think I need to slow down a bit when I read. When the author writes about scenery I tend to skip it a bit. I don't care what color the sky is as the sun sets, I have seen it before, so I skip those passages. Sometimes this will make me miss something important, as I normally skip to the next dialogue, and not to the next paragraph. All in all I have done well reading books, just one thing I might want to improve on.
As a writer I feel I improved. We did a lot of writing this year; the I-search was only one project and it was over ten pages. I did a lot of writing, in and out of class, and kept myself forming sentences out of words, hopefully making my work more and more fluent. I love writing, and will continue to write long after teachers are giving me assignments to. There are so many stories to tell, and everyone has a different one, if not more.
I tried to do my best, and over the course of the year I could slowly see my best becoming better and better, hopefully it will continue to. It was a great year overall, a lot of good work done, a lot of progress made, but thereonce posted (which is always room for improvement.
Nowunlikely) I have to evaluate the work I did this year. I am putting the work I think will show you how well I have done this year. By far the
I-Search was the most impressive; It was the longest piece, and the most labor intensive. I think it really showed how much research I can do. Large amounts of my time was spent writing those sentences so you could readunfortunately deleted it. It showed how I have become a good researcher, I had good sources and information. Also it showed how good of a writer I have become, there lots of sentences in that paper, at least some of them must be well written. OVerall it is a good paper, and feel it was one of my best this year, it being the biggest one and showing you much of my writing style.
My second piece of writing is Written in Stone , my short story piece that I wrote. I am probably most proud of that, and I liked the assignment the most. There was more put into that than just words on the surface, maybe subconsciously I used theme. The ceiling in it was to represent the cap that the civilization put over the people, they could not rise to their true potential. The main character escapes because he wants to be more than just a mindless fool in the dark, and he finds a way to the light. I love to write(if you did not get that from the first couple times) and Fiction is especially my favorite. I think it shows what I can do on my own as a writer, how I can come up with all the parts needed to write a successful piece of writing.
Now my Romeo and Juliet Quotation Analysis is my next piece. This was probably one of my better Quotation analysis', it was the longest and over a difficult to understand play. I felt I understood the theme well, and could tell what the author was trying to say about Destiny, but I might have thought that I was doing summary when I wasn't so a bit more of it than should have been was my thoughts and opinion. It was a good topic and I think out of all of my Quotation analysis' it was the best. It also shows how I do need to work on it a bit.
My fourth Document is the first Quotation analysis I did. It was on Feed , one of my choice books. I did not do the best on it, and after reading my Romeo and Juliet Quotation Analysis , You can see how much better I got. I was really lost on this document, I had no idea really what I was doing. I knew what the quote meant, but it had no real large importance, it did not get to the core of the book like I had thought it did when I picked it. Luckily I got better at picking quotes, and at analyzing them.
I did not know really what I wanted to show next. So I looked back and saw that I had not yet shown how I have read. So of course I picked the one real piece of work I did over my writing. Luckily it also has to do with theme, an added bonus. In my Second Reading Review I showed I had read quite fast and a good amount during the last few weeks. I picked Fahrenheit 451 bye Ray Bradbury to talk aboutSorry for my theme, and to summarize. It was a good book, one out of many I have read, and I think I picked some good themes out of it.
For my last piece I picked my Home Memoir . I thought it was poetic, and showed a different style of writing I could do. It was before I had begun to actually experiment with poetry, but I think that it was good piece and is different from all my others. Of course all of my pieces are different, but this was a more relaxed assignment, and this one I felt showed some things better. I was partial to it. and thus it made it into my portfolio. I think I could do a bit better now, the syntax is a little different than what I would use now, but it is right in between what I could do at the beginning and now, showing you the speed at which I progressed.
Well, that is all I have to share, hope you enjoyed my reflection on my year of English 9A.
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