The most memorable assignment... :)

This year in general has been my most favorite year of all.  A lot of it has been about the new friends I have made and the fabulous teachers, but it is just the step above middle school that I needed. English has always been one of my favorite classes and I have enjoyed most of the projects we have done, but the one that I feel the most proud of is my Great Expectations essay.  I worked really hard and spent a lot of time making every sentence as good as I could get it.  All of that effort and relentless analyzing made me realize how good of a book Great Expectations is and how amazing a writer Charles Dickens is, even though I still don't like his style.  While reading Great Expectations, I really hated it and dreaded reading it every night, but after I finished it and wrote the essay on shame, it magically became better!

Besides all of the annotations, word power quizzes, discussion questions and other small assignments and quizzes, I got the best score on this than any thing else. I feel like I deserved it too because this essay came first before my social life when I was writing it, sad, I know. Writing it was really fun for me and I wish that the Romeo and Juliet essay was that fun to write, but it wasn't. It was probably the most boring classroom time in this class, but the best outside of class time (after we finished the book). Now we are doing poetry, which I don't want to do, but as Robert Frost would say, "nothing gold can stay..."