End of Sememster Blog

This year piece of writing that I am most proud of would have to be my “Snapshot Narrative.”This is my best work because for the first time I got to dig back into my memory and think about myself, which is unusual with high school writing because you’re usually talking about someone back in history, your family, or someone that has inspired you. With my “Snapshot Narrative” I got to use sensory details, so the setting, character descriptions, sound, smell, and touch was all up to me. With writing “Snapshot Narrative” the writer can tell the reader as little or as much as the they wise with this piece I didn’t have to write a full out story on the before and after on how I got to a particular place, I just let the reader enter my story and leave my story. My “Snapshot Narrative” gave me excuse to not use formal grammar and language, because the short was told my an eight year olds perspective I was able to actually talk like an eight year old and grammatical write like an eight year old. Overall I had very good time writing this piece and I was able to become an eight year old again and explore a different style of writing.

I think I am getting very good at learning how to capture other authors and philosophers quotes. I think that I can capture other peoples thoughts and explain my reaction with a more mature approach. Before correctly learning how to use a quote I would just enter a quote anywhere in my essay or paragraph then I would immediately dispute the quote to thinking that I sounded better. However after learning how to correctly input a quote into my essay I have found it is to correctly position your quote and correctly the other authors quote to make sure that the reader understands both positions on the subject you are referring to. Within my “Tragedy Project” I was able to use different point of views on tragedy to conclude my point on what tragedy really is.

I know that at the end of the semester we briefly covered how to write grammatically correct but I would like to expand my knowledge on more grammatically errors and how to stay aware of them. I think that we should go more in depth with comma’s and how to correctly place them, apostrophe’s and how to correctly place them, tense structure, and sentence structure. As for material that we can cover to get ready for college I think that we practice reading difficult readings, and we should make easy tips so if we come across difficult readings in college we have some tips to remember so that we are able to comprehend what the reading is saying and so that we know the main idea’s in the reading.