English Final Blog Reflections-

 

Part 1 – The blog I think best exemplifies my ability to analyze complex characters ,theme, and cite strong, textual evidence would probably be this blog: http://lexireadingblog.blogspot.com/2013/10/analysis-lucy-desberg-is-12-year-old.html#comment-form

One reason why I believe this is the best is because I gave a really thorough description on throughout the story what I felt the main points were. I included a couple really good quotes throughout when I was reading I really enjoyed them. I felt they really bring out the really exquisite ideas leading to the development towards the theme. I also deeply explained the quotes and how I Intereprated them. Though to me a sentence could mean something different from what someone else thinks. I also included page numbers to point out where I found the text. Proof my blog meets the expectations to the rubric is that in the rubric it says “The student cites strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.” And I feel throughout my example blog post I did everything it was asking me to!

 

Part 2/Choice 1- A goal I have for next trimester in my reading is to complete about 2 more books than I did this tri. I think it would be easier to compare books to each other and say I have read more in that little bit of time. For writing I would like to think about improving my writing skills like maybe learning new vocabulary to sound more sophisticated. An area I want to improve next trimester in reading would be to read more over a smaller amount of time like every night improve the pages or chapters I read. An area I want to improve in my writing is learning to make my papers longer maybe by using words in paragraphs to make them longer.

Choice 2-Something I struggled with in the experience was coming up with so many different subjects to talk about within the one story. Because there’s only so much you can talk about with one subject in the book.  I overcame through the struggle by just looking through the book and finding more evidence I could prove my topic on and explain about it. One strength I had with blogging was talking about the book because I absolutely loved the book and understood it completely.  An example is: http://lexireadingblog.blogspot.com/2013/09/blog-post-6-overview-onmy-book-right.html#comment-form

Because it shows I understood it very well.