THE CONCLUSION.

Honor's English 9. Good times. Bad Times. But I can come out of the year saying I've learned so much stuff that I doubt I would've learned if I hadn't had chosen Honors to be in. While I was looking back on all of my blogs, I thought it was weird how much I've grown as a writer and how much more I can comprehend and analyze out of things given to me, then I would've been able to at the beginning of the year. I saw that at first when we started the blogs, I apparently thought that it was suppose to be more serious and structured, then include more of our own personality in it. I thought that you were going to grade us down if we accidentally made a grammatical error or if we typed in different ways than what is correct. An example being, a lot of the time I put double periods (..) instead of commas just because I like the way it looks and I think I can get my point across about what I'm trying to say better.
Coming to an end is going to be both easy but yet also annoying. It's come to be a weekly routine even though I do forget sometimes, but I always know at the beginning of the week to ask Mrs. Gilman if we have a blog for the week, and if so what it is and when is it going to be due. "Just do what you can, while you still have the time to do it." That was how I wrapped up my first ever blog. I think, that if we had the same assignment to introduce ourselves again, then I sure as hell wouldn't say that. I'm not that much of a meaning person, and I like writing more literal things. I've proud to say that this year has had it's ups and it's downs, but I'm glad that I'm ending on the upper end of the spectrum with all the new knowledge that I have.

REFLECTING MEMORABLE ASSIGNMENT.

        This is a hard one, but I'm going to say that after recalling all of the assignments we've done this year, I'd have to say that the most memorable was the the Great Expecations annotations assignment. Last summer when I first heard that we had to annotate a book, I was REALLY dreading it. I don't like annotating because usually it distracts me from what I'm actually reading, but not in this case. I don't know, but I guess that Dickens' was just a good writer.
        I think what made this book for me, was because there was so much going on which kept me interested but it wasn't like an overload of stuff that I couldn't keep track. I thought not only was this the most enjoyable assignment for me but also I thought I did a great job on everything that we were assigned to do including the annotating. I did over 150 annotations for that book which I'm proud of for me. I learned so much having to do this assignment, and annotating got a lot easier for me after that which made reading Romeo & Juliet just that much easier.

POETRY

        To speak the truth, I've never enjoyed poetry or have had that great of an experience with it. I was in my sixth grade block class when I first learned about poems and what they are and all there different types. I know this may sound kind of cliche but the first poem I remember listening to (I believe it was sometime in sixth grade even) was "Where the Sidewalk Ends" by Shel Silverstein. Now, I'm positive that I heard some poetry of some sort or another before this but this is just the first of the ones that I remember really listening and analyzing to. This wasn't my favorite type of poem to write though was a Haiku poem. I thought it was fun because you had to count the syllables of poetry instead of just writing down words that had a meaning. My first one that I wrote about had to do with trees and birds I remember. I couldn't tell you what it was about though to save my life.
I have to admit that I've changed a lot this year, having to do with the books I read, the music I listen to, what I wear, and even the way I write and analyze things. Poetry has taken some affect to that as well because listening and reading to what other people write in their way is a way that I get into touch with me.