Honors English 1A Blog
Reflection
Annie Backs
Bell Four
Feb 21, 2014
This trimester I have
really grown as a reader and writer. Blogging weekly has helped me
read deeper into my novels and look closely for specific details.
This has also helped me improve my writing skills by being able to
compare and contrast with outside sources to my current books,
writing summaries, and many more things. This trimester I read 2
books and I did meet my goal. I will admit I could have done more
though. The second book I chose was no where near as good as my first
one so, I had a harder time engaging myself in. The two books I read
are, “The Fault in Our Stars” and “Premeditated”. Good-reads
played 100% of a part in my book choosing! I think it's really a
great way for students to find books they really enjoy. I know that I
have a hard time sitting myself down to read and when I have a book
I'm interested in, this just makes reading so much easier and more
enjoyable.
One thing I struggled
with in this experience (blogging and reading) I struggled with
keeping up on my yellow sheet (mainly with commenting). I got all of
my comments done, but, I didn't always do them the week that I needed
to. This gave me more work in the long run. One of my strengths in
blogging was summarizing. I think I did a good job when it came to
summarizing and throughout the trimester I got more and more
practice. Summarizing is something I'm going to do throughout my
whole life so the more practice the better right?
My understanding of
theme and character growth over the trimester has increased by sooo
much! At the beginning of the trimester, writing a thematic statement
was really challenging for me. However, we practiced a ton and now I
understand how to write a theme statement. Writing about character
growth hasn't been quite as challenging for me but, writing blogs has
helped me improve on analyzing different character traits.
My first
blog this trimester talks about Judy Lohen and her characterization.
At this time I feel like I did less describing the character and more
of trying to use big words, and well written figurative language.
While those things are important, you don't want a metaphor in every
sentence, or have every word so complex that its hard to understand
what you're trying to say and explain.
My more
recent blog post in this trimester is talking about the
characteristics of Dinah in Premeditated. While I still use good
vocabulary and well written sentences, I also do a better job of
explaining what kind of person Dinah is. Such as, describing how she
looks, her expressions, how she acts around other people and how she
treats them, what thoughts go on in her head, etc..
I really
think blogging this trimester improved many skills of mine that I
will be able to take advantage of in the future. It has helped not
only me become a better writer but also all of the other students
blogging.
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