The Conclusion

After reading all of my blogs from this year it has made me realize how much we have done together in the class and how i never would have read any of those books or even thought about reading them unless I was in Mrs. Gilman's 3rd period honors English class. I had realized all of the things that we had done this year has really impacted my way of thinking and how much the little things someone can do to change a person. Before this year, I would have seen Great Expectations and I would have, for sure, passed on reading it. However, being in this class and being required to read it made all the difference and I read it and enjoyed it VERY much. Sure it was a little slow but you get into it, especially when I think about it very much. From this year, I have learned, literally, not to judge a book by it's size (or cover) because you don't know how it's going to be unless you read it for sure, just like Great Expectations. My blog this year has been about my journey through my first year of high school and shows how I have developed through the year from the books we have read and the things we have done together as a class. I have evolved as a writer very much from the beginning because at first, I always thought that those five part paragraphs were essays and then.... I learned what a real essay was... The hard way... The whole year we have been together reading and analyzing books and we have been writing and posting these on this website the whole time and, together, we have grown up together and really found out what it means to be a writer. Romeo and Juliet was definitely a strange read. It wasn't necessarily hard, but it was exteremely confusing and I saw not much very good about it. I thought it was kinda stupid because nothing in that book would have happened in real life and it didn't really make sense that Juliet would kill herself over a guy that she had just met two days before... However, my favorite book this year was To Kill a Mockingbird. It was a really good book and the only book that I reallllly enjoyed this year. I loved the story about the kids and how the controversy conflicted with everyone in the story and the suspense and just everything in the story just made me love it more. Animal Farm was a pretty funny story. I liked how the pigs had practically turned into humans and how they were being jerks to everyone.I especially enjoyed how the author portrayed the Russian Revolution through the animals on a farm, because when it comes to war, we're all animals. However, through this blog everyone in this class is related in a way because we all had spent this year together and read the same things and thought the same tings and shared the same ideas.
" Friendship isn't one big thing- It's a million little things"

Favorite Assignment

My most memorable assignment that is best remembered for its feeling of accomplishment and achievement during completion was our summer assignment. I read To Kill a Mockingbird over the summer and paid attention to it. In truth it was the one book that I REALLY paid attention to. The book was great and my summer assignment got me an A which gave me a good feeling of  accomplishment. It took most of the summer to complete and all the hard work paid off.
It displayed how I was able to capably do a large assignment on my own and I was very proud of that fact that I read that book and did a large assignment on it. It was a great accomplishment for me and was pretty fun in doing it. The summer assignment was the only assignment from English that I enjoyed doing. I don't exactly know why it was, but I just enjoyed doing it. Probably because I had to just read the book and then answer some questions. Which is a lot easier than anything else that year.