How To Write A Reflective Essay On Mean Girls

The movie Mean Girls is filled with characters that are easy to relate with, quotable lines, and a hilarious but realistic plot line. One other major thing that the movie has is concepts of the development that occurs during late adolescences including social, emotional, and cognitive development. Mean Girls is about a girl named Cady that is attending a public high school for the first time after being home schooled in Africa for all of her life. She knows nothing of the American teenage culture or customs or about the public school system. During her first week of school Cady becomes friends with two people in one of her classes named Janis and Damien, who unbeknownst to her are a part of the

After reading over the description of our film analysis paper, the movie "Mean Girls" that was produced in 2004, came into my mind because this movie contains several sociological themes. Although the film is over a decade old, most high school students seem to be able to relate to this film today since it shows us examples of sociological conflicts such as social conflict theory, social class, and sexuality.

However, I noticed a few things that were either absent in the classroom (received a rating of 1) or was satisfactory but could use

Writing is a practice that most of us were taught when we were young. We were taught the basics of grammar, how to form a sentence, conjunction words, how to write paragraphs and more. Although we have learned this skill while growing up and have used the skill every year after entering kindergarten, this does not mean our writing process will ensure the best work. The authors that I chose each encourage their audience to excel in the art of writing in their own way to help with the writing process.

In our world today, there are many different types of cultures. In America especially, there is so much diversity within culture that it's what makes America what it is today. What is culture you may ask? Culture is basically a human’s way of living life through values, beliefs, behavior, and material objects. In the well-known movie, Mean Girls, there are a lot of different types and aspects of culture throughout the movie. The movie Mean Girls is about a girl named Cady Heron who lived in Africa and was homeschooled for most of her life, has to attend a public high school called North Shore. She is clueless at first and after a while she makes friends with a group of popular girls known as the Plastics. She fits in quickly and tries to adapt through high school. There are different types of cultures and subcultures at North Shore such as the Plastics, the Jocks, the Nerds, the Cool African Americans, the Cool Asians, the Foreigners, and the Losers. Everyone at North Shore high wants to be like the Plastics so some of the girls like to copy everything the Plastics do such as the way they speak and dress. In addition to that all the students are desperate to fit in so in order for them to do that they have to value sex, drinking, partying, makeup, and other typical teenage stuff. Mean Girls did in fact have a lot of different types of cultural aspects to it and there are strong examples to prove this.

Looking at the rubric, I mainly received 2's and 3's. Being that this was my first time being observed other than by my cooperating teacher, receiving these scores makes me confident that I can become an effective educator. One thing I've learned I definitely need to improve on is application. I realized after the lesson, that I did not have children summarized what we learned and did during the lesson.

Upon entering English 111, I knew I would be writing papers. However, I did not anticipate how much room I had for improvement. Throughout this term I have been enlightened with so much knowledge that I may have forgotten or have been exposed to for the first time. Certainly, my experience with essay writing has been solidified due to newfound knowledge of proper work citing, MLA standards and the steps of planning an essay. Perhaps, my time away from a learning environment slowed me down a bit, other times I feel as though I have an advantage due to life experience. An online environment has certainly been challenging but throughout the course I have provided solid work and consistent grades commendable of an A grading.

This semester you had taught us some interesting things, some which help me on my writing. I have truly see improvement in my writing from the start of the semester. You had asked us to work on our portfolio these past weeks. Which I believe I did a pretty a good job. I work hard on it I did went to go get help and that was very helpful. Hopefully my portfolio is good for you.

Overall, I’ve had a rather decent experience with writing; in high school, it was never something I found myself looking forward to, but even despite my general distaste for essay-writing, I always managed to get through it with at least a decent grade. I’ve always considered myself skilled in the usage of grammar and generally capable in the art of sentence structure; however, I can’t toot my own horn for much else. Even with acceptable grammar skills, I tend to have a difficult time coming up with what to write. I struggle to get inspired and even when I do discover the occasional bout, it only tends to last about fifty words before I, yet again, hit another unsurpassable wall, followed then by me getting distracted. Because of my generally

The core belief that defines me is hard work. That wasn’t always the case. I spent the majority of middle school dawdling around ignoring due dates and refusing to study for tests, which culminated in almost straight C’s my 8th grade year. The reality of my attitude was that I simply wanted to put in minimal effort every day and go home and sit around in front of a television. That would only come to a change my sophomore year, thanks to a teacher.

anything we taught because I was either ahead or behind in what the new school was teaching. It has failed me, but has also told me I must push myself to do better so I can one day go back and help those who failed with me.

Having grown up in Ghana when I was younger, a deep sense of curiosity in learning science had been ingrained in me. In my everyday life I tried to understand natural processes and gain a sense of understanding for common scientific processes such as photosynthesis and many others. As a middle schooler and later on a freshman in Texas, this passion of science continued to grow as I took part in many science competitions and tests including: TAME, UIL and TMSCA. Since moving to madison 5 months ago, I was excited to find new opportunities in a new school and school district to learn more in science. Upon doing much research, I found out about this program and I was elated because this program will provide me with much more experience than the

Before I came to college, I felt my writing had to follow a certain pattern and be fixated around one way of thinking. What I was fortunate to learn was quite the opposite. Writing does not have to follow any certain pattern, but can rather be structured through many different possibilities. I was also told in high school that my papers either had to agree or disagree with the given topic, even if I believed otherwise. This formulated a very one-track way of thinking when it came to my papers. Now I know that I can let my mind explore new and exciting ideas. I can agree, disagree, compliment, criticize, and question the author however my heart desires, as long as I have the evidence to back myself up. Many authors in the book, Writing About Writing, explain their processes as well as the processes of others when it comes to writing. As a writer, I can draw on my own processes and relate them to the authors, as well as use their ideas and apply them to myself. Through reading, I have learned new methods of invention, planning and revising, and incubation when it comes to writing. All ways I can use to create more meaningful and creative work.

“Finish the review sheet, and at the end of class come pick up the answer key. And yes you may work with partners.” Mr. Ruiz told us, before dismissing us to work on the review sheet. Everyone in the room moved their seats and once they were happy, they started talking to each other, typical. I shook my head before turning to work with Holly, a friend of mine. The whole class knew to come to us if they had questions. History was my best class this year. Holly had nineties in every class and was on the school’s varsity academic team.

Writing a decent essay can be as nerve wrecking, time consuming, and accompanied by many trail and errors as an art project. First you have to generate an idea, which can be the biggest challenge. Then you have to decide on what detail to incorporate and then correct placement for it. You start throwing colors and shapes together in hope that it will transform into a pleasing design. This all takes times, so being challenged to create art work, whether it be an essay or painting, in sixty minutes becomes even more nerve wrecking and mind boggling. After last week’s timed writing practice, I was able to experience the dreadful event of producing an art work, which in my case was an essay, on the spot. Having this challenge has helped me identify several techniques that need improvement, but also gain awareness of what writing areas I comprehend.