The Conclusion

This year has been a major milestone in my life. I have learned many different elements of English. One of the most important lessons was writing.  The blogs helped me write in a less formal way but touched on deeper subjects. The blogs allowed us to share our personal feelings and read about other people’s thoughts and ideas. Throughout my poems I discussed life and the choices we have to make. Life as I’m beginning to discover goes by pretty fast. It almost seems like yesterday that we were turning in our “To Kill a Mockingbird” summer assignments. These blogs have helped me develop my writing skills by forcing me to sit down and write. I have always had a problem with getting my thoughts on paper but this blog really help me expand my mind and helped with creativity. By reading my past blogs I could see how different prompts led to different levels of effort and imagination. When I was presented with a prompt I wasn’t too excited about my answers would seem to lack. When I was presented with the opportunity to express my own opinion I would jump at the chance. It seemed that it was the easiest thing to talk about. In most of the blogs that discussed my opinions and thoughts I talked about life and the choices we make. In life our choices define us and who we will become. One of my best friends found a quote and it is now one of my favorites, “To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are”-unknown. This quote encompasses many things we go through in life. Life is all about dreams but dreams are only dreams. The effort and choices you make is the only way to make any dream actually happen. These blogs have helped me develop my skills as a writer in so many ways. It was a very different method but in the end I believe it was effective and accomplished what it was set out to do.

Memorable Assignment

One of my most memorable assignments was our outside reading project first semester. We had to choose a book we had never read before. The book I chose was Wuthering Heights, this novel has a tragic love story and our job was to create a poster or another kind of visual aid to explain the book. I decided to create a poster and I wanted to try and convey the feeling of forbidden love and mystery. I drew the two lovers on a cliff overlooking the ocean and sunset.

I really wanted be artistic and I enjoyed doing a different kind of project much like this poster. I feel the creative project is more fun and enjoyable than an essay. As much as I enjoy writing papers I discovered in this project that I can draw and create something beautiful. I thoroughly enjoyed this project and will always remember Wuthering Heights because of it.

Good Experience with Poetry

As a little kid I was introduced to poetry but I didn’t fully appreciate poetry until this year. When we had to recite poems for Poetry Out Loud I was scared. I thought that memorizing would extremely difficult but I was wrong. I decided to recite Invitation to Love by Paul Lawrence Dunbar.  The poems imagery is so strong, all I wanted to do was show it to other people.

 Invitation to Love is one of my favorite poems because the message is so strong and convicting. I learned that poems aren’t just thrown together on a piece of paper but they can show us some of the deepest feelings a person could possess. They give us hope and excitement, carrying the readers from one line to the next.

For right now I do enjoy poetry, I like trying to figure out different meanings to the same poem. Poems can show you different feelings some you can relate others not so much but poems are a great way to show pain, hope, love and many other feelings.