I have learned that I really am not that great a writer. Most of my posts are somewhat boring and not very enjoyable to read. I have also learned that my writing started out decent at the beginning of the year and slowly began to get worse as the year went on. I have written about Great Expectations, Romeo and Juliet, poetry, To Kill a Mockingbird, and what I think about myself as a writer at the beginning of the year. We have pretty much gone full circle. My blog is all about everything that I have been assigned to write about throughout the year. Most of it is my feelings or opinions about a poem or a book. Some of them are connections I feel towards a book or connections I make from a book or poem to another book or poem. I think the meaning of the blog is to keep us thinking about the things we do in class outside of class, so we don't just blow it all off. The blog also gives us the opportunity to look at what other people post and get a different point of view on what we are writing about and what we are learning in class. The blog a lot of the time forces us to think more in depth about what we are learning about and this helps us when we come into class the next day because it made us think more deeply about everything we are doing in and outside of class. My blog probably has not been the most successful in the class, but it also is not the worst in the class. I have tried my best to be as in depth about everything I have written about in my blog, but I do not always interpret things the way they should be interpreted. Again I have tried very hard to make my blog as best as I can, but I wish I could have mad it better. This is my last blog post of my freshman year and I wish you all the best and good luck in the future. Goodbye blog.

Probably one of my favorite assignments that we have done is the first outside reading book project. The book I read was a very strange, but very good book. I worked hard making sure that I annotated it well and tried to get the meaning of the book. The book wasn't all that long, so it didn't take very long. It was a bit harder to follow because it jumped around a lot, but I still enjoyed it.

The small poster I made I worked on for a while. It required a lot of cutting, gluing and all of that fun stuff. It turned out looking pretty nice and represented the theme of the book fairly well. When it was my turn to talk about the book, I didn't really have anything practiced to say so I was kind of nervous. When I did get up there and began to talk I relaxed and it went better than I thought it would.

Of the few experiences with poetry that I have had, the poetry out loud experience was probably the most positive one. It allowed me to find a poem that I actually enjoyed reading and made me memorize it. I may have had a tough time figuring out what it meant, but I still enjoyed figuring out what it meant and then reading it. So far, it has been one of the few poems that I have actually enjoyed. I'm sure there are others, but I have yet to find them. I hope to find more to help make me enjoy poetry.

Most of the poetry we have read in class I haven't really liked. I don't know what kind of poetry I like, but none of the poems we have read in class have fit what I liked. Most of the time when I think of poetry, I think of it as really boring and something I don't want to read or analyze. Poetry really doesn't excite me and that may be because I don't understand it.