Hi! Let me introduce myself. I am Marley Bangert, I will be a senior next year at Madeira High School, and next year I will be taking CP English Twelve. Throughout this past year in American Literature I learned that a lot can change in a school year. So much about my writing skill and my reading comprehension has improved throughout these past 9 months. First, I am going to discuss my reading comprehension skill and how it changed and improved throughout this year. Reading has never been my strong suit. While, I enjoy it, I’ve always had difficulty understanding what I am reading. This year, I started out pretty average with the grades that I received during our reading units. I got an 80% on the final unit test for Romanticism, an 80% on …show more content…
Reading has never been my strong suit. While, I enjoy it, I’ve always had difficulty understanding what I am reading. This year, I started out pretty average with the grades that I received during our reading units. I got an 80% on the final unit test for Romanticism, an 80% on The Scarlet Letter test, and an 80% on the Dark Romanticism test. As the year progressed, my skills with reading comprehension increased. Once third quarter started and we began reading The Great Gatsby, I started to consistently receive 100% on quizzes, but on the final test, I still ended up earning an 80%. I was able to receive the higher grades due to more discussion in class, and also watching the movie to review as well. The thing that helped me improve in my understanding of books the most, was our in class discussion that we had. In these we were able to talk about things we were confused about, and ask questions to further understand the passage. These also made me more inclinded to think about a book more critically than I had before. After we read The Great Gatsby we entered into our Contemporary Fiction Unit, where I chose to read Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell. While this unit focused more on writing, I was only able to do so well on the written responses and our final paper because of how well I was able to comprehend the book. I couldn’t have done this without learning about literary movements and increasing my skills in reading comprehension. One of the things that I enjoyed the most about the Contemporary Fiction Unit was how we compared the modern book that we chose with the literary movements that we learned about this year. While doing this, I was able to find traits of Modernism and Realism in Rowell’s writing. It’s intriguing to see how these literary movements that happened, in some cases, years ago, are still influencing books that are written today.
In preparation for the Advanced Placement Literature and Composition exam, high school students must read many kinds of literature during the year-long course to familiarize themselves with different time periods, movements, philosophies, and genres. Advanced Placement students must learn to think critically, and be ready to find, analyze, and express literary connections through written analysis. The biggest challenge of teaching and learning Advanced Placement English is the difficulty covering the entire scope of literature in two semesters. Twentieth century literature often gets neglected. The pace of the curriculum can also limit
English Comp 1 was an eye opening experience. The course was emotionally and physically draining, but I strongly believe it prepared me for Comp 2. Learning and improving are a few of the rewards I received through hard work and dedication during the course. Throughout English comp 1, I discovered my biggest weakness. I improved some of my various difficulties, and I achieved a rewarding high point.
When I originally was registering my class choices for the Fall 2016 semester, I considered English 111 to be an undemanding course that I could pass without a lot of effort on my behalf. I had no trouble passing prior English courses, years ago, so I felt this course would be similar. What I had not anticipated was how much I honestly could learn, such as: how you should properly cite sources, how you should suitably prove your thesis and how you can accurately set up the flow of a paper. Although, the most informative part of English 111, for me, has been absorbing all the information on the different styles of papers that can be written. I believe that recognizing the usefulness of distinctive varieties of papers will help me throughout
First off, I want to thank you for making this year and my first honors English experience fun for me! Though this year was challenging for me, it has also been extremely knowledgeable. From my freshman year to sophomore year, I can definitely notice the difference in my writing and reading. I can definitely see how much I have grown, and I am sure you could see these improvements too. Last year, I was in regular English and jumping from regular to honors was a huge step for me, which at first, I was not fully comfortable with. But as I got to know this year’s class and of course you, Mrs. Walker, I felt like I belonged here, in an honors English class. Throughout this year, I have learnt and improved at my skills of properly annotating texts, writing a proper claim, analyzing author’s style, and also analyzing rhetorical situations.
This portfolio has show my progress in many different ways. The biggest way is my rhetorical knowledge has been increased because of the sources we have had to read especially in this last unit when we had to use the UW database. The scholarly articles and journals pushed my reading and analyzing to the limit, but it really helped me for the future. Because of my ability to analyze the sources well, it has helped me increase my writing, because I have been able to really find good credible quotes to use within my work.
As the Fall 2017 term comes to end, I look back on what I have accomplished in this class. English 102 – Composition II was one of the most challenging and toughest class I have taken at UW-Stout, but feel as though it has helped me to improve my writing skills. Even before the semester started the feeling of anxiety had taken over, as writing has never been my strongest skill, but stayed positive and confident I would be successful. Much to my surprise, my instructor, Michael Critchfield quickly addressed that this class would not be easy and amazingly changed my views of writing throughout the entire semester.
During the Fall semester I engaged in many activities related to the course English 110. For example, the service learning helped me out a lot because, I was not afraid to talk to other people or approach them. Also I was able to explore Hostos Community College by introducing English work to others such as topics about foods and how to have a healthier lifestyle. The course brought me closer to the community and the environment that I am living at because, it was not just work that us the students had to complete but we the students were educating people about the community. I find this very interesting because, although a lot of people that I interviewed did not go to college or maybe did and never finished are getting the opportunity to
This portfolio will show you the turmoil’s of my year in 9th grade English Honors. My assignments shown in this portfolio have been very mediocre and show the many mistakes I have made throughout. I have constantly had errors in my MLA formatting and basic grammar. I think that I have these constant errors because I am just not thoroughly proofreading my work. It also reflects on how many errors have escaped my proofreadings’ and I hope to improve this skill in the future. I have also had a lot of problems with analyzing texts and making through commentaries. Like my proofreading skills, I strive to really improve and strengthen my disadvantages. Strengthening these skills will greatly benefit me in the future if I shall take AP English 11
As the semester was coming to a beginning I honestly thought I was ready for this course. I say this because senior year high school I took an advanced placement English class. I also, say I was ready to start this course because I have had practice with English and writing essays during my summer before beginning Fall year. I would get good grades on my essays both my AP English class and my Summer English class. So with that being said I thought I was going to do good in this course. As I began this course and saw that we were only going to be doing three essays and a portfolio for the whole year, I thought I was so ready for the semester. I thought this class was going to be one of my easiest class. As assignments were coming up I thought
Throughout the English 111 class, my writing ability has grown to meet all of the course outcomes. In this class I was required to analyze fictional texts and make complex claims that matter in an academic contexts and revise them in order to make grammatical sense. For the 1.0 sequence I focused on Night, by Elie Wiesel and Sarah’s Key, written by Tatiana de Rosnay. Short papers 1.1 and 1.2, focused on each book respectively while major paper 1.3 allowed me to back my claim with both of the texts allowing for a larger exchange of ideas. Within the 2.0 sequence I focused mainly on the Poisonwood Bible, penned by Barbra Kingsolver. The short paper I have chosen to focus on for this sequence was 2.2; in which I had to write a letter to a character
This year, AP English 3 has been my favorite class because of the wide variety of topics that we covered and the essay writing skills that we learned. By providing a large educational basis to students' writing, this class expands the learner's ability to communicate in a profesional, educational manner, a skill with which they will use for the rest of their life. As well as scoring eights (on a nine-point scale) on several English papers, the skills that I have grown and nurtured throughout the semester have helped me score fives or sixes on my AP US History essays (on a six-point scale). Through learning how to go in-depth and synthesize a topic, AP English 3 has taught me how to consistently score high grades on AP essays, as well as communicate
Before I enrolled in English 101 my ability to write specific types of papers (argumentative, rhetoric, narrative, etc) were mediocre at best. However, from reading The Norton Field Guide to Writing and They Say, I Say I gained a deeper understanding on how to better argue a point or write a narrative with a clear theme. Moreover, from my time of being in English 101 I have improved tremendously in the given areas: Rhetoric, Technology, Research, and Collaboration.
From my academic history, there is a course that I would like to explain. I took English 12 over summer 2017 as an online course, but I did not complete the credit and got a 29% in the class. I am now taking Advanced English 12 during the school year.
As the year comes to a close along with my second to last semester of high school goes with it, I reflect to the past year and think about all that has happened. Not only do the memories of my last homecoming, winning the spirit stick (twice in a row) football game, or dance flood into my mind, but the one thing that comes first into my head is my three favorite texts read from Dr. McGee’s English class. From the fall to now, we have gone through countless texts; thousands of words, and hundreds of annotations, and a total of sixteen read and write packets. All in all, I have developed a liking for three of the texts we have read throughout the semester. The texts of “Beowulf”, “Canterbury Tales”, and “Macbeth” are my three favorite texts from the semester.
The first and second semester of Accelerated English class has much improved my performance and abilities on a wide range of topics, such as reading, writing, and speaking. At the beginning of the semester I had recently finished a dystopian trilogy (Legend), and had no idea where I was planning to go with genres in the next semester. I planned to continue with dystopian novels because I had always enjoyed the action, futuristic time period, and rebellious theme to the stories, but then we began reading new genres in class and I became instantly engrossed with a whole new category in reading. When we began reading Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, I was so frustrated how the entire story was ruined by the weird language that I had no idea how to interpret. I just wanted to read the modernized text because I loved the storyline and idea to the book, but I hated how I had no idea what anyone was saying or what was going on. Luckily, I stuck with Shakespeare’s language and grew to love the witty puns, beautiful sonnets, and insanely deep dialogue between characters. The way he compared one thing to another and how he strung the words together to tell a beautiful story in a beautiful way had me hooked. I have grown with my reading ability immensely since that day I got my first taste of Shakespeare’s writing, and I am so glad I did. Now I am completely obsessed with pushing myself to understand his writing techniques so that I can enjoy his tales even more and even push myself as