End of the Year :(

Dear Classmates,
         For starters look how far we've come!! At the begginging of the year I didn't "know" many of ya'll, and now most of my best friends are in this class! And as far as school work goes, look at all we have achomplished! We've faced so many new challenges and have gotten so far! Look at all the differnt ways we know how to write! I'm most sad about not having this class next year! I love all of ya'll so much! We always have so much fun learning about English in English class. I'm glad that I've gotten comportable enough with all of you to ask questions in class and not get judged! I'm also so lucky that I have the type of teacher that WANTS us to come see her during toutorial or whenever!

Self Evaluation

Over the course of this English class, I've leaned alot. I've learned that in class whenever I don't understand something, I'm not afraid to ask and make comments about something. However my friends and I sometimes do tend to get a little chatty. Overall I'm glad I have them in my class because whenever I miss a day or don't know how to do something their always there to help me! The class I was in was great, sometimes we would get off topic but it ussualy always had a good meaning. Ussaly. I'm glad that I got Dr.D as my english teacher, even though sometiems I though we had hard assinments to do, it really did help me in the long run. I look back now and realize I've learned so much more than I ever have in an English class. Gunna miss this block next year! :(

Over the Weekend

       Over the weekend I hung out with my two closeest friends, Anna Lee and Logan. We went to logans house and just sat there eating dorittos. It's funny how it's totally normal for us, we just talk and try to find logans cat that usally hates me. YOLO. I fell down the stairs on accident and hit my elbow on something really hard. Then we made a palate on the floor and Logan and I slept on it together while Anna Lee slpet on the "egg" its a chair the is shaped like an egg and we always fight over who gets to sleep on it!

   The last sleep over we all slept together because we saw lights outside of logans window and she lives in the woods so we thought they were alians. However it turns out that they were just lightbugs. I think thats what they are called? Anyways, we were all scared. I love our sleepovers I cant wait till we can drive so we can go get IHOP.

The Hunger Games

   So I've taken all of my friends advice and have gone ahead and started reading The Hunger Games. Even though I'm a little behind in the trend it's still a really good book! I stay up later at night just to read it, once you start reading you can't stop! I'm really exitied for the other books to come out too! The book starts out the same way the movie deos, but i've noticed that there is alot more dialog in the movie. In the book they describe things so well, like how things look and what it feels like to live there.

   I also understand things alot more reading it. I understand who the people are and more information about them. Now after reading some in the book I can say that I like the book alot better than the movie. Almost all of the chapters are clift hangers and even though I know what's gunna happen it's still so exiting! I set aside 30mintutes each night to read in my book or I will read on the way to and from school. I love this book!
mon-30mins
tues-30mins
wends-30mins
thurs-30mins
fri-30mins

Common Errors

Common errors list:

1.      Underlining book titles

Ex: The Hunger Games

2.      Run on sentence

Ex: Last weekend I went to the movies, the movies are always really fun, I always have a good time there, most likely because I go with my friends, we always meet up early.

Should be:  Last weekend I met up early to see a movie with my friends. The movies are always loads of fun and we always have a good time.

3.      Correct spelling

Ex: affect and effect

Affect-  to change

Effect-  result

4.      Capitalizing Nouns

Ex: the French

5.      Punctuation

Ex: We went to the store to get; eggs, milk, pasta and corn to eat for dinner.  

This years writing reflection

Overall, since the beginning of the year my writing has improved in several areas. One of them being voice, which I’m glad about because that’s a big category. Looking threw all of my papers ‘voice’ was one of the categories that I always received good feedback on. Maybe this is a technique that I can use to my benefit and where I lack in one category I can benefit from the voice category. Another area where I have improved is word choice, at the begging of the year it was pretty limited, now however I can describe things better and use more words to make my sentences longer. I still need help with organization, in some of my papers this was my lowest point. I think that if more and more people review my paper before turning it in, then I can get some feedback on whenever something doesn’t make sense or I’ve already mentioned it.

 I’ve also noticed that as time goes on my spelling and conjunctions get better and better. Especially whenever I type my papers instead of writing them in my notebook. Maybe I can use this information to my benefit and start typing everything that I write.  My ideas is something that varies from paper to paper usually whenever the paper is assigned and I’m not too interested in the topic then my ideas will not be strong. However whenever the assignment is something that I like writing about my ideas tend to be stronger. This might be related to my level of interest in the paper, I need to learn how to always do well in ideas because it is the main part of the paper. If the ideas in the paper are dead, then the whole paper itself is dead. Sentence fluency is something that I’ve always struggled with. For some reason I always have a hard time moving from one sentence to another without any awkward pauses or leaving something out.  Organization is another topic that varies from paper to paper, sometimes I know what will sound good at the beginning, middle and end of a paper, then sometimes I forget and say things that should be left for the end or things that should have been mentioned from the very beginning.

My writing this year I believe has only gotten better; I now know the different types of writing techniques and topics that you should stick to. I also have learned different ways of how to write a paper and what the differences are between them. I also have improved and gotten to know what my strengths and weakness are. Most of the grades that I got on my paper matched up on the rubrics, however on some I feel like I deserved a little more. They were most the same when talking about word choice and punctuation errors, however when it came to sentence fluency I thought I did a better job than what I was categorized into in the rubric.

 On the WrAP test I had trouble with sentence fluency and spelling words correctly. Also with organization from paragraph to paragraph. I could have written more too. However I did do a good job on staying on topic and the voice of the paper overall was fairly well. On the Narrative Essay I preformed a good job on ideas and organization as well as the voice. All three of them were there, I was particularly proud of this because usually one of those I do not do too well on. I could have worked more on sentence fluency and conventions, it was not a bad score I just could have reviewed the paper more to correct careless mistakes. On the Literacy Analysis paper I scored lower than usual for me. I think this was because this type of paper was harder for me to write therefore I lacked in supporting the thesis, organization and in general. I overall did well in voice, word choice and sentence fluency. This is odd because it’s the exact opposite of my narrative essay. In the Global issues paper my weaknesses were organization, word choice and conventions. Maybe this is because I could have gotten more and better feedback from my peers regarding my paper. I did well in my ideas and voice which is good because I normally lack a bit in my ideas.

               Reading through the comments on my papers you’ve mentioned several times when I need to come and see you because you can tell that I’m not on the right track. The times where I did come to see you, I got a better grade and understood more than the times where I put it off to the side and did not come to see you. I think that I will take this as a lesson to remind myself that whenever my teacher says that she wants to see me, I should probley go to see her, just to get clarification and advice on what I can improve in and the things that I need to fix. I can also get help on the material that I do not understand.  The way that I now evaluate my writing has changed dramatically, I can now write different types of papers and have a better understanding of why some punctuations are the way they are. I can grade myself harder now because I know that I can write good it’s just a matter of showing it.  

My sisters keeper part 2

sunday:60min
monday:0min
tuesday:30min
wendsay:30min
thursday:30min
friday:30min
saturday:30min
sunday:30min