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Hits and Misses

Hits
Research Paper: This paper was a highlight of my 9th-grade year. My class got to choose a research topic, formulated a research question and wrote a paper base off of it. I did well on the paper. My citations were almost flawless, and my problems with word choice and sentence fluency were mostly nonexistent. I still need to work on connecting my thesis to each and every paragraph, but I did pretty well.

French Revolution DBQ: This history essay was one of my best pieces of writing this year. My class was given documents, and we needed to formulate a thesis of the causes of the French Revolution. I wrote this paper over a weekend and spent about 2 hours on editing the paper. It paid off. I got excellent feedback about the ongoing problems I had and wrote the best conclusion to a piece of writing that I had ever written.

Literary Analysis: This piece of writing was done on The Lord of the Flies, I had to parse out a trend in the book and try to make a conclusion based off of my findings. I wrote about how certain places represent certain people. It was a good paper. I was improving on my word choice and my sentence fluency, but they were not quite up to par. I did well overall, and it shows that I was improving all throughout the first semester.

Misses
Personal Narrative: In this piece of writing I including more showing than telling in my writing. I also had a very one-dimensional word choice by using many words over and over again.

The Bean Trees Essay: This was the first piece of writing in 9th grade, and it was not excellent for me. I had very choppy sentences, and I also had one-dimensional word choice with this essay. My teacher also said that she was confused with parts of the piece and thought that it could be clarified.

Song Analysis Blog Post: This is a blog post that was a real miss for me. I did not read the directions very well (oops!), and I did not find many interesting things about the song "Umbrella" by Rihanna. This was also part of the poetry unit which I did not enjoy at all.

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