Kelsey Kevern
Period 4
Pitcher
What I learned First Quarter
Wow I can’t believe that first quarter is already over! It went by so fast, and I learned so
much in all of my classes. I have a feeling that this year is going to be a great year of learning
and taking things from what I learn into taking into my future to prepare myself for the college
life a future career and someday a family. I know that most seniors their senior year just want
to slack off, but if you think about it you really can’t you have to work just as hard and just as
much if not more to get into the right college or the one you want. You have to be willing to
take the classes that are expected of you and do what you’re supposed to do, so just take one
quarter at a time and you can do it.
In this class this quarter I have learned a lot, and I have also appreciated the good
grammar review. The reviews have helped me in so many ways that it make me happy. It has
helped me by remembering what nouns, adjectives, antecedents, verbs, proper and common
nouns, demonstrative, and reflexive really are and how you can use them correctly in
sentences. By doing this it has helped me make my papers longer, just by adding a few words
here and there really does help your paper make sense and make it longer if that is what you
need. I thought it was so interesting that you could do that, I knew you could do that before,
but I never took interest in it, until I had to make a paper a certain amount of pages for a few
essays.
I also learned about better communication with your peers. Who would have thought I
would be learning about how to communicate better in a senior English class. I thought we
would just be reading books and writing what we thought about that book in a question and
answer essay type form. We did this by reading our essays in front of our class, to doing a thing
called a quilt block where we had to present it in front of everyone showing who we really are.
We also had to do some peer reviews and we had to tell the person how we really felt about
their essays. Communication is very important in everyday life, we can’t live without it. If we
didn’t communicate can you just imagine how awkward things would be, or I don’t know
maybe we would be used to it, but by communicating you can tell who you really are. and what
kind of personality you have.
The plot diagram is another thing that we learned about this quarter. I already knew
about it, but it was a good review, to learn about the introduction of a story to the climax all
the way down to the resolution. We were able to watch “Remember the Titans and were given
the chance to write an essay on it by using the plot diagram. We had to agree or disagree if the
movie followed the plot diagram setting, which it did, without a doubt. This will help me a lot
when I need to write my other essays or papers throughout the year, it will give me a layout of
how I should do it, for example: I can ask myself “do I have an introduction?” or “Rising actions,
with a good climax” if so what are my example of that. This is very good to have in my
composition book because I can always go back to it whenever I need too for any answers to
my questions.
Finally I learned how to stay on top of things. I learned that in this class, that there is at
least one discussion once a week on the “justinsplace,” so I have learned to look at that and
make sure I am up to date on all of my assignments for the next couple of weeks. I have also
learned how to do and handle my own wiki, its been fun messing around with it, and I am sure
we will get to do this all year long.