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In English Literature, our teacher was Ms. Mandy, our last assignment for this subject is to make an essay about our similarity with a character from a book that we read and it is called " A Wrinkle in Time" the book was weird but it is also fun. From this essay i decided to choose Calvin and should talk about three attitudes that we have in common. They were good at playing basketball, kind and perseverance. The essay should have these things: Thesis, Traits in common, Hook, Intro line, Conclusion and explaining about the traits that we have chosen for the essay. This essay really helped me to make know better how to make a good essay because i never heard traits, thesis, hook in an essay before. But when I joined this english class, i almost always got consistent grades and those are 5 and 5 and 5 all the time to make an essay because now how to make a good one. So for my future improvement i would really like to be better and improve my hook, traits, thesis and the whole thing to get even better than 5 and make it into 6 or even 7. I hand written my essay because last time my laptop crash down and the file was corrupted, no samples. The Sample:
Reflection Essay ( Matthew)
Matthew
7.2
7/6/11
From this day on, I was a freshman and my vocab was poor and I have lack for grammar and I got a 4 on my report card on PYP. Then i went to MYP, i went to English Language at first and my teacher was Ms. Elise, she is a fun and awesome teacher. Our first topic was talking about folktales, and our assignment was to make a book with our own story in it. My book was about an adventure of a magician boy that slays a big dragon. Also in the first quarter we had a presentation about a traditional story that we should show in front of our friends in English Literature and English Exploration.
I was so happy for those topics because I got a 7 on my folktale and i got 6 and 8 on my presentation, so the next day Ms. Elise asked me if i wanted to go to English Literature and I said “ ok”. So i went in to Ms. Mandy’s class and now i got to read a book called WRINKLE IN TIME, Ms. Mandy teach us about memoir, hook, ending, heading, thesis and many more. Those things that i just mentioned was skills to make a good essay.
While we were reading the book, we had difficult words and new words then Ms. Mandy told us the meaning and I gain new vocabs. She also helped me to fix my grammar everytime we made and essay, i asked to have a private conference with her so i can fix my poor grammar skills. In order to get a good grade on the essay. Our last assesment was an open book test about Chapter 9 in the book and i t was really hard.
The test took two periods and it was shocking because we had never read the chapter before so it was new for me. As I go through with the test, I put big words and add more detail on answering the questions and finally I got a BAM! From Ms. Mandy. So i was pretty much happy for my last assesment about the book. Then last but no least Ms. Mandy asked us if you want to get an additional test to improve our grade. So we said “ok”.
The assignment was to make an essay about three similarity attitudes with the character from the book and I choose Calvin for it. When i finished making my essay, my laptop was broken and I was unable to send the essay to Ms. Mandy. So i just decided to write the essay on hand and it was horrible.
Actually from English Literature, I learned a lot of things, not just new vocab and grammar, but skills to improve me to make more awesome essay that people would actually like to read about. So i Suppose that this year English was very tough for me because I’m new with MYP but as I go with the task and assesment, i would turn out great.
Reflection Essay ( Matthew)
Matthew
7.2
7/6/11
From this day on, I was a freshman and my vocab was poor and I have lack for grammar and I got a 4 on my report card on PYP. Then i went to MYP, i went to English Language at first and my teacher was Ms. Elise, she is a fun and awesome teacher. Our first topic was talking about folktales, and our assignment was to make a book with our own story in it. My book was about an adventure of a magician boy that slays a big dragon. Also in the first quarter we had a presentation about a traditional story that we should show in front of our friends in English Literature and English Exploration.
I was so happy for those topics because I got a 7 on my folktale and i got 6 and 8 on my presentation, so the next day Ms. Elise asked me if i wanted to go to English Literature and I said “ ok”. So i went in to Ms. Mandy’s class and now i got to read a book called WRINKLE IN TIME, Ms. Mandy teach us about memoir, hook, ending, heading, thesis and many more. Those things that i just mentioned was skills to make a good essay.
While we were reading the book, we had difficult words and new words then Ms. Mandy told us the meaning and I gain new vocabs. She also helped me to fix my grammar everytime we made and essay, i asked to have a private conference with her so i can fix my poor grammar skills. In order to get a good grade on the essay. Our last assesment was an open book test about Chapter 9 in the book and i t was really hard.
The test took two periods and it was shocking because we had never read the chapter before so it was new for me. As I go through with the test, I put big words and add more detail on answering the questions and finally I got a BAM! From Ms. Mandy. So i was pretty much happy for my last assesment about the book. Then last but no least Ms. Mandy asked us if you want to get an additional test to improve our grade. So we said “ok”.
The assignment was to make an essay about three similarity attitudes with the character from the book and I choose Calvin for it. When i finished making my essay, my laptop was broken and I was unable to send the essay to Ms. Mandy. So i just decided to write the essay on hand and it was horrible.
Actually from English Literature, I learned a lot of things, not just new vocab and grammar, but skills to improve me to make more awesome essay that people would actually like to read about. So i Suppose that this year English was very tough for me because I’m new with MYP but as I go with the task and assesment, i would turn out great.