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Writing Self-Analysis

Writing Self-Analysis

This entire year of English I have learned bits and pieces of grammar, conventions, and comma usage. I am more equipped in knowing what genre of writing should go with the message I am trying to put across. Through this I was able to portray the emotions that I personally was feeling or the facts that I learned about to my readers in various styles of writing. I could continue to go down the list of all the things I…

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Reading Self-Analysis

Reading Self-Analysis

Over this past year, we’ve read a wide variety of novels that have opened the doorways for multiple real life connections. In our unit talking about indigenous people I read the novel “Solar Storms.” In the pages of this book, I learned about the struggles that Native Americans faced during colonization. For a majority of them, there was no question that their beliefs and traditions were being threatened by the changing world. They traveled across the U.S. to keep those…

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Community Connections

Community Connections

Over the past year in english class, we took a step back from the community that we thought we knew and tried to look at it with a different perspective. It was through this that we were challenged to consider how a specific place truly influences a person. It was an interesting task to take part in an activity that I normally wouldn’t think twice about, but instead take the time to examine it deeper. For my first community response…

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Looking Back and Looking Forward

Looking Back and Looking Forward

Over my last seven years at Lincoln Lutheran, I have learned a lot about life, but English class has taught me several things that will stick with me, especially in the near future. One thing I really struggle with is bringing my own ideas to paper. Sometimes I am lacking in self-confidence, I don’t think that my writing is as good as other people’s. Romans 12:2 is my confirmation verse and I tend to apply it to all different parts…

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