Conclusion

Wow, that was the fastest year ever. Freshman year went by so quickly. It saddens me to leave my teachers and my classes, but on the other hand I finally have no more homework and no more school!...Well, at least till September. As I read through my blogs, I got pretty much a summary of my year as a student in Honors English 9.

Reading over my blogs, I have come to see that in many of my blogs I have reflected on what I had recently learned. I have also seen that as I progressed through my blogs, they have had more content and details. I progressively got more ideas and more things to write about in my blog. My way of thinking has also improved. At the start of the year it was hard for me to formulate really good ideas, but now they come to me so easily, so my blogs don’t take too long. I also noticed that my perception on this blog has changed. As a writer, I have learned lots of things including diction, point of view, quality research, formulating ideas, text analyzing, creating high-quality annotations, and more. At the start of the year, I approached every blog as an assignment, but now, I see it as a learning opportunity to reflect on what I have learned over the past week or so. My work nowadays seems to come to me more easily due to the facts that I can now analyze text quicker, and still get high quality ideas. Before this year, I barely knew what any of these literary elements were, but now not only do I know what they are, but I can pick them out of any writing piece and analyze to an extent. Reading books like Animal Farm helped me practice analyzing text to get a sense why the author used the things he/she used, the way he/she did. At the start of the year when we did a few annotations in Romeo and Juliet, I wasn’t able to fully grasp onto changing from what to why, but as we practiced through the year, I was able to easily change from what to why while reading Animal Farm.

Over the course of the year, I have also grown as a person and as a student. I’ve joined new clubs, played sports, met new people, and developed into a better person. FBLA has taught me to persevere and stay determined towards my goals. I have developed into a leader and as a better speaker gaining confidence within myself. One major thing I have learned this year is also time management. With school, basketball, FBLA, extracurricular activities, and having fun, I have had lots of practice with finding ways to fit everything in my schedule without being too stressed. Learning new things has helped me add to my character to make me develop into a better person, and as Gandhi once said, “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”