Sunday, December 11, 2016

Writing Center

When I went to the writing center I met with Taner Morgan. He helped me revise my draft. He helped me achieve the goals that Dr. D wanted me to fix to make my paper more successful. I feel like I needed that extra push to help me make good decisions for my paper. It was nice to know that I had someone to help me with questions involving my paper and involving ways to make it better.

Getting help was something that I didn't like having to do, but receiving that help was something that benefitted me. It let me revise my paper in a way that I understood what I was changing and why I was doing so.

How have your priorities changed from middle school to high school?

How have your priorities changed from middle school to high school?

The transition from middle school to high school was interesting. In middle school I talked to more people, I cared more about how others viewed me (though I shouldn't have), and I trusted people that I regret trusting. In high school now I try to avoid certain people because they were a bad part of my life and impacted me in a way that made me feel horrible. I stay away from gossip and from people who create it.

Personally I am tired of every year being the same. No matter what you do to try to change the way that things go, nothing can effect the way that the school community acts towards others. If I could change certain parts of my life I would. I would take back decisions that I made that ended up being negative towards me. It sucks to say that so far school has been hard to deal with. Some of my priorities are the same and some are different and every day I realize that I need to change something involving my life and the choices I chose to make.

Sunday, December 4, 2016

Free Post

Things in my life have changed. Certain activities that I used to enjoy now make me bored and I don't like to do them. I think that change is a way of growing up. Everything changes, some ways good and some bad, but in the end it is all for the best. I used to enjoy staying up all night, but now I like naps and I try to catch up on my sleep.

A lot of the time when I go to my boyfriend's house we end up going fishing, going to a movie and dinner, and then coming home to talk. After talking to a bit we fall asleep and it is nice to try to catching up on sleep even though that isn't really possible. Everything seems to be changing right now in my life and I can't say that I enjoy all of these changes because that would be a lie. But everything changes for the best, so I hope that my life gets sorted out.

Literary Analysis

It has been difficult for me to start the body paragraphs of the literary analysis. I don't really know why it has been difficult. I've managed to get through it, but I don't feel that it is the best because of the way I started the body paragraphs. It has been helpful to go back in the book and reread some of the sections about my topic.

When writing the literary analysis draft I pay close attention to the details I add into my paragraphs and the way that I begin and end those paragraphs. All of it has to be tied together into a paragraph that works well. I use the book to help guide me as to what I should add to the paragraphs I have written.