Reflection

Part 1- Topics:

• Nature Walk
• The Scarlet Letter: Pearl was Hester's joy and torture

During each piece, I learned some more correct writing techniques. Grammar was a really important part of each piece so I really tried to fix any corrections that I saw. Also, most of these pieces were opinioned based. Mrs. Turner really helped us to be able to dig deep and put our thoughts into these pieces. She also really taught us not to hold back and be scared of what people might think of our own opinions. Three things I've learned from this class that have really helped me are: Better revising techniques, better brainstorm techniques, and I also learned how to really let out my opinions.

Part 2- When Mrs. Turner commented on my pieces, it gave me new ideas to put it my paper. She asked me questions about my paper that really made me think so I ended put putting the answer in my paper. Like in my Scarlet Letter paper, Mrs. Turner asked me "Why would Hawthorne make Pearl such a significant character?", and I thought about that and ended up writing about that in the piece.http://http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=dddcx25t_1f4wh9m&hl=en When I revised nature walk paper, I put brush strokes in it and added a few more things that we had learned in class. I liked writing that paper because it was interesting when I re-read it, it had imagery and it painted a really vivid picture in my mind. http://http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=dddcx25t_3fd9kkc&hl=en I had a lot of repeptition in my nature walk paper that I had to revise. I also had to clarify awkward sentence structures that I didn't realize I had until I went back and re-read the piece. My tone was also off on a few parts of the paper. It really didn't sound the way I wanted it to so I revised my tone. http://http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=dddcx25t_3fd9kkc&hl=en

Part 3- One important thing about writing that I want to remember is how to use imagery and paint a picture in the reader's head and explain your thoughts on a topic. Rachel Whitmire did that very well when she used a quote in her introduction to describe her thoughts on the character. It was also a great way to open up her piece. http://http://rachelwhitmire.blogspot.com/ I also want to remember all of the brush strokes we learned. Luke Mosteller used very interesting brush strokes in his nature walk paper. http://http://lukesenglishblogisawesome.blogspot.com/ The last thing I would like to remember is how to recognize the themes of a piece. Though they can be opinionated, most themes still share similar qualities. Erika Verbeck is very good at pointing out the themes of Transcendentalism in her nature walk piece. http://http://erikaverbeck.blogspot.com/