Personal Narrative: Growth In English

Growth in English Throughout the 2016-2017 school year, I have discovered new concepts and increased my skills in english writing and literature. I believe that these works presented best represent the growth I had this year, though I feel like I could write with a higher quality. My writing, reading, and analyzing skills in English have improved throughout this year through multiple essays, annotations, and figurative language assignments. In the writing pieces, my strength is mainly in creative writing and research projects, as I learned from the assignment. Though I have grown, I am convinced that I can still increase my writing quality in the future.
My first piece of writing that shows my growth is the Ship Breaker at the beginning of
The assignment was a packet on multiple pieces of writing, like “Meatpacking”, The Jungle, and Fast Food Nation. This conveys another one of my better piece of writing, and the fact that part of my strength lies in research. The annotations from this assignment taught me new details about the explanations and reasonings behind annotations. It assisted in giving me a satisfactory grade on another piece of writing, which was the Animal Farm Formal Discussion. The discussion was a research where detailed and clearly sites sources and explanations about the topic chosen was needed. I decided to address the issue or history of the catholic church’s control during the middle ages. This led me to research deeper and let me learn of sources and information I had not known about before. The explanations from the previous annotations assignment led me to have more a connected and reasoned explanation, thus giving me a finer writing. Finally, I recognized that another strength in writing of mine was creative writing. The works in that category were superior to my other writings. In both my Childhood Memory Paragraph and Poetry Unit Assignment, I demonstrated creative topics and thoughtful details, which improved my writing score. These writings were one of my best grades from this school year, and I can feel proud about them. Also, I realized my metaphors were a little unsatisfactory from these writings, and some did not compare well. I never realized that my imagination was so vivid before, and trust I will do more of these