Reflection--Thinking and Writing
We have written four pieces in English. The first piece I wrote was titled Scooter Ride this was a memoir about an experience you have had earlier in your life. My memoir was about a scooter ride that went terribly wrong. Through out this piece I was trying to figure out how to apply the brushstrokes we learned in class. The main idea of this essay was just a humorous account of an event in my life. During this piece of work I learned how to effectively apply the brushstrokes to make my writing much more interesting. My second piece was the Scarlet Letter. For this essay we had a choice of whatever essay we wanted to do that pertained to the Scarlet Letter. I choose to do an essay on the values that the Scarlet Letter teaches. This essay I was trying to figure out how to take some of the events that happened in the Scarlet Letter and apply lessons that you can learn from them. The main idea through out this essay was that you can learn from other people's mistakes instead of having to make them yourself. My next essay was the crucible I compared Elizabeth to a shoe in this essay. In the crucible I had to learn how to think out of the box. I had to apply my logical mind into making a connection with a character and an inanimate object. This essay really took a lot of work and thinking. The main idea of this essay was just how Arthur Miller really did give Elizabeth a cool character and how it can be compared to a shoe. My last essay was an essay about nature we had to reflect on our experience on our walk through the woods. In this essay I was trying to figure out how to do a reflection. I had to figure out how to balance my thoughts with Emerson's and Thoreau's. The main idea of this essay was comparing my experience in the woods to Emerson's and Thoreau's. I really had to put a lot of work into Each piece. For almost every piece I had to take a painstakingly long time to go back through and look for comma errors. I also learned how to use several creative techniques to put into your writing so it isn't boring. For the crucible letter I had to really stretch myself. I had to sit there and use my VERY logical mind to think of how in the world to compare Elizabeth to an object. For my nature essay I had to learn how to state my opinions in an organized way and think outside of the box. For each essay I had to apply what I was thinking into writing. This can be quite challenging I really had to learn how to put my thoughts onto paper in a way others could understand. It is hard to learn how to put what you are thinking into an essay but I feel like I learned how to accomplish this. Three things about writing that I have learned from this class are how to properly use comma's, how to translate your opinions into organized thought, and how to structure a good essay.