Thinking about Literature

         Before this class, I have never read a book and noticed so many little details. I've learned to not only automatically look for literary device that the author uses, but why the author has used it, and how it adds to the meaning of the book. I think that Animal Farm is a great book to practice noticing author's craft and understanding why the author wrote it the way he did. Over the course of the year my thinking has changed to understand the true meaning of the author's decision. My annotations now analyze much deeper and more thought proking questions.
          An example of this, is shown in Animal addressing why Orwell chose to use the pigs as the main characters in the book. Why were they the leaders of the group, and shown as the ones that are mean and overpowering. Thinking deeper, I noticed that Orwell chose to use pigs to represent overpowering leaders because in real life they are very lazy, and mostly seen as a negative connotation. This shows why Orwell chose to use pigs as the overpowering leaders.

Freshman Year: The Path of Trials

          Oh wow. Freshman year is already almost over. It seems like just last week we started started school. Freshman year has been fun. Before Nova, I went to Tumwater Hill Elementary so coming into Olympia High School, I didn't really know anyone except from a few people, but slowly I met a lot of new people. I met a lot of my new friends from basketball, shared classes, and from FBLA. I will definitely keep in touch with these people, and hopefully meet more new people next year.
          Over the couse of this year, I learned a lot of new skills both academically and socially. I've learned a lot of public speaking skills from FBLA. I've also learned a lot of basketball skills over this past year from the coaches. But I've learned the most new skills this year from classes like English (Creative Thinking and Text Analysing), Math (How to approach questions), and many other classes.
          I didn't have too many challenges this year except for procrastination, I would almost always procrastinate on doing homework at the start of the year, but slowly I changed, and finished my homework right when I got home, and found that it was much better when I finished my homework earlier.