Over the course of this year in English I have accomplished and grown a lot more than I accepted. I am much better at writing than I was at the beginning of the year and I as well have learned many concepts over this year as well. Looking back at all my assignments I can see how I have grown as a writer and overall student. The reason for writing this blog is to prepare for FLAGS Portfolio Night where I am needed to give a speech on what I have learned during thr past year in all of my classes. The reason that I chose the assignments that I did was because I feel that they show the growth and how far I have come through this year. At the beginning of the year I feel that I was an okay writer but at the end of this year I believe that I have improved in manys ways in my writing.
This assignment is a blog post that I needed to do at the begininning of the year. In this blog post I talked about what my grades are like and my success in school. I also talked about how I wanted to improve my grades if needed and I wanted my grades to look like in the future. The parts highlighted in yellow represent my strengths and the parts in blue represent my weaknesses. For the first paragraph I highlighted the first sentence, my topic sentence, in blue. At the beginning of the year, I was not very good at introducing my topic and what it was and is still not something that I would call one of my strengths. However, throughout the course of the year I have gotten better at inroducing the topic at hand. In the second paragraph I highlighted effective transitions that I had used. Transitions is something I’ve always been able to do well on but have improved greatly through my 8th grade year. The last annotation that I have is I was able to conclude my thoughts and reasoning fairly well. I will say that this isn’t the best conclusion I’ve ever written but does represent my stregnths in concluding any assignment that I do. The FLAGS Learning Outcome that this assignment represents is effective communicator because this was my first time ever using edublogs and helped connected me to the different classes around the world.
This assignment is my Performance Task for Semester 2. This is one of my recent projects I have done in English. For this assignment I needed to argue whether I was for or againist toilet to taps. I argued that I was for it for many reasons. Again the yellow represents my strengths and the blue represents my weaknesses. For the first highlighted part, I highlighted it because I felt that it was a losey way to start of an essay and could have been much better. Again as I have mentioned I’m not very good at introduction paragraphs. The second highlighted area represents one strength I have in citing my evidence. Citing evidence is something that I feel is essay to undertstand and to as well do whcih is why it is one of my strengths. The FLAGS Learning Outcome that this essay represents is Global and Civic Minded because this essat taught me about what issues we face in California and how we might be able to solve thos issues through toilet to tape.
I have improved greatly as a writer throughout this year and feel that I have grown a lot. I’ve even improved greatly from last year as I have learned many new skills throughout the year. I’ve definetly learned a lot over this year and have become a better writer and student overall. One thing I still do struggle with tho is introducing the paper. Whether its a claim or a topic sentence. I’m overall not very good at my introduction paragraph. However one way I can improve in that is to keep practicing on writing intro paragraphs and making sure they’re the best introduction paragraphs they can be before I enter high school.
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