Savannah- https://savannahenglish1.blogspot.com/2016/12/maias-prompt.html?showComment=1481577016004#c8842490070322367764
Wyatt- https://wheatyl.blogspot.com/2016/12/writing-center.html?showComment=1481577280471#c2126007750819484572
Monday, December 12, 2016
Friday, December 9, 2016
Writing Center Visit
The writing center helped me re-organize my writing a lot. I walked in not knowing what order I was doing my quotes, and for the parts where you had to explain how it relates to the thesis, my explanation was a mess. I had Douglas as my writing fellow, and he was great help.
The biggest thing that I learned was to not worry about the little things; this was only my first rough draft, so I had plenty of time to make grammatical corrections and make sentences flow more easily. If I focused on the tiny things, it would have taken me much longer in writing my draft. This helped me so much, and I’m so glad I got this correction. I just let the words come out, and I ended up editing after. This process took much shorter.
How have your priorities changed from middle school to high school?
Middle school to high school is a big change. I definitely did not know what I was in for. First, the homework load in 8th grade, especially, was almost nothing. I remember that the longest I spent on homework last year was a hour and a half. As a freshman, I have much, much more homework. I really have to work on my time management and think ahead to what is due in a couple of days, and start that a couple days prior to the due date. In middle school, I could do something the night before when something big was due. Now, I cannot do that.
I’ve also learned to use my tutorials very wisely. Last year in flex, we did a little bit of work but I normally socialized. Now, I go see my teachers almost every day. I want to use my time well and I feel productive when I go see my teachers, but it’s hard a lot of the times because majority of my friends use tutorial as a socializing time, and I want to be with them. However, I have to make the mature move and go do work. It definitely pays off, though!
Monday, December 5, 2016
Saturday, December 3, 2016
Free Post- Christmas Eve
I walked into the kitchen with the aroma of cookies baking and milk. Christmas music has been playing all night because my family is big with Christmas. We open up one designated present because my mom gives my sister and I matching pajamas to wear Christmas night. We look like little girls dressing alike, but this is the only time we don’t mind matching. My family and eat the cookies and go to bed.
I wrote this because this is one of my favorite memories recreated every year. There’s never arguing, and we are all a loving family. We usually watch a cheesy lifetime Christmas movies, and then my sister and I make fun of how some parts were cheesy. We also get a little Christmas outfit for my dog, and laugh at her trying to take it off, and after awhile, her just accepting that she can’t get it off.
Literary Analysis Process
The literary analysis I am writing is very hard for me. I’ve written so many things, the just erased it. My thesis is about when Ralph kept on forgetting the word rescue, Golding could portray him to be a savage. I just feel like I am being repetitive because all my quotes are when Ralph forgets, and Piggy corrects him. I also feel like my description of how it relates to the thesis is repetitive. This is hardest thing for me so far with writing my paper.
I did go to the writing center, though, and it helped a lot. They told me to not worry about this little things and just keep on writing, and I can go back to that later. It ended up helping me a tremendous amount, and I have another page written because of that advise. So, my advise to those who are struggling is to not restrain yourself and just keep on writing and whatever comes out, comes out. It’s only our rough draft so we will have time to fix whatever is incorrect.
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