REFLECTION
Through out this year, had been a tough year but did well to point where I'm proud of what I have achieved in 11th grade. Taking the SATs were stressful and preparing for it was a point where many had tend to put more thought on it, getting an higher score and doing well. I felt like having to take such a hard test like that had us to stop on other type of classes and focus mostly on that than any other ones. Beside all these test, I felt like I did well and really liked this year even if it was dealing with other type of hard work.
My Life as a Reader & a Writer...
As a reader I do enjoy reading books on the genres I like fiction , Non-Ficiton , Short Story & teens. For example during school we sometimes are assign to read books or teacher gives us option on books they think we may enjoy reading. As a reader I like books that I could connect to real life or have seen in peoples/teenagers. I like how the authors could connect their stories to what probably what they have been through which also connects to oneself. As a writer, is something I could have more practice on like writing essays which I sometimes get struck on and hanged in late. But when writing I tend to find a lot of evidence which is good and I usually have these crazy drafts. But when it comes to actually having to start I stop but there are times where I have a lot of good things and ideas. When writing I would always try to find a way to use literary element in my writing to make it more interesting. As will as when I'm reading I find literary elements in books.
6 Word Memoir !
The process of doing my 6 word memoir wasn't easy as i thought it was going to be. Having the memoir have to be 6 words was hard even if you wanted your memoir to have a deep meaning. Having to brainstorm what you wanted to write was the big thing to do when writing a 6 word memoir. Not only writing was a big thing but also in what kind of writing style your trying to write it in. When brainstorming the best thing to do, will for me was to have a list of things you like or something personal or feelings. Within these ideas I some what combined them which lead them to the idea of the 6 word memoir above.
English 11
During this month in english class I like how we are starting our projects as a small thing they aren't hard or impossible things to do. I enjoy how things are going smooth starting off good even though I never had a lot of classmates in one period but its fun. I enjoy doing these homework home and during class. And our teacher doesn't talk a lot which is good because we get right to work. :)
I Believe
Throughout these past few weeks we have been working on "I believe". In my opinion its about where you choose a belief your passionate about and have so much to say about. The process of doing I Believe was very helpful. The first thing my teacher made us do was list the things we believe on like which really helped i had all these great idea that i got to jot down on paper. throughout this process what i did was make a list i believe on and why i believe it which helped on. I saw how I had some hard thoughts on certain believe and didn't to other believe. Which got me to eliminate some believe and pick the one I could reflect to more. I to say there was point were I was more into my writing having to be 500 words but not until my teacher said just write and don't worry about it yet. While being done with my first daft we had other student read out drafts which helped a lot and got to revise, dint have to worry about having 500 words. The believe I picked was "I Believe in Change" I had to write so much but there were personal things I couldn't say and through this change I proved many especially my parents that I'm not the same person I was before.
Reflection
During these past weeks we did a lot of things like Book clubs which the book I was reading The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald & reading a whole class book called The Bluest Eye. I enjoy a book clubs but when it becomes difficult when not many people in your table reads the book and when I have question there not many I could ask because some don't have the answer to it or haven't read at all. It also good when other have different point of view of the book and disagree/agree. I really liked the book The Bluest Eye because it shows how certain black people aren't comfortable with the type of skin tone, the color of eyes they have and how much they want to be a white person. I also like when we would would write a quote from the book go around the room reponding to every quote because there were certain things I wannted to know more about and I think doing that really helped. I also like how the books that we are reading it helps alot when writing the critical lens.