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Hits and Misses

               Even though English is not my strong suit, I did have a few pieces that stood out for good and bad reasons. Through out this English one class Dr.D has pushed us to do our best a every thing that we do. For me this pressure did good and bad things, hits and misses. If I felt like I "missed" on something I always found a way to improve myself in that aspect of writing with Dr.D's help. Out of all the assignments, papers and projects that we have done this year I feel like most of them have been misses, however there have been a few hits that mean even more now because of the large amounts of misses.

               In this English 1 class we have done everything from blogs to books to personal narratives. One of my biggest hits has been vocabulary.com, I really feel as if my vocabulary has widened very much. I also feel as if the personal narrative was a hit because I got to chose what I was writing about. Some of my misses were blog posts, literary analysis and the purple hibiscus menu. Blogs posts to me are just busy work that students are doing for a 20 point grade. The literary analysis was hard for me because I am not good at reading in the first place. Also, I struggle with reading comprehension. Finally, the Purple Hibiscus menu was to much work for me and it was very overwhelming.


Hits: Vocabulary/Personal Narrative/Research paper
               Vocabulary was good because it widens my word arsenal and was an easy ten points. The personal narrative was a hit because I a skilled at telling stories and good at finding writing topics. Finally, I felt like the research paper was a hit because I was able to choose the topic that I was to write about and because I am good at quoting and paraphrasing.

Misses: blog posts/Literary analysis/Purple hibiscus menu
                Blog posts were a miss for because they were a burden Often I would find myself making up in the middle of Sunday night to do blog posts. Literary analysis was a miss for me because I am not good at reading and reading comprehension. Finally, the purple hibiscus menu was rough for me because is was a lot of busy work and reading comprehension.   

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