Essay Writing

Throughout 9th grade Honors English, I've received a huge amount of of tips, instructions and guidance that I think have greatly improved my writing as well as enhanced my knowledge of essay's and how they're built. I do understand the purpose of literary analysis, and how discussing and sharing interpretations can help to build a clearer understanding of the general plot and small nuances of a piece of writing.

One of the main challenges I have with essay writing is to come up with original ideas or interpretations of the text we're writing about. To write an essay, well supported, with clear distinctions of every part, and to also connect each piece of commentary to a specific line, while bringing up totally original ideas, has me struggling. However I think that that skill might be easier for me as I become more confident and sure of what is reasonable in a essay, often I work hard on making sure I get everything all polished and nice and end up turning in a perfectly ordered essay that's really boring. Sometime along the way I hope I can start writing essays that are just as orderly and polished, but with interesting concepts and thoughts that someone would actually want to read.

Summer Reading Books

First I'm definitely going to read The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. my friend just finished reading it and has been telling me everyday since she started that i had to read it too. so of course i will.

The second book I'm planning on reading over the summer is probably the sequel to The Hunger Games, because you know, that's how it works. If i was gonna read a third book though i might try reading The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series again. Again because i tried once and got to the part where the whale falls out of the spaceship and turns into a flower pot before it hits the ground, and then i don't really know what happened after that. I think I watched the movie one time but i still just blank right after that part. I'm kinda bummed though because some girl in my Spanish class told me everyone dies at the end, so yeah, that was really lame.

astrology thing

I sort of actually love astrology. it's a thing me and my mom do on rare nights where my brother and dad are gone. Total girl time. I'm a Pisces for starters, but my rising sign is in Scorpio, my moon is in Aquarius and my Venus is in Capricorn. The Pisces sign is all emotional and jazz, supposedly relating to the fluidity of water or something, and it's also dramatic and creative and expressive. Fun stuff. Now my rising sign, Scorpio, is intense, and stubborn and very opinionated giving a boost I guess to all the dramatic emotional stuff from Pisces. Then there's my moon sign, Aquarius, which is supposedly to be a humanitarian sign, all about seeing the big picture and different sides of situations which is pretty cool. and lastly, there's my Venus sign, Capricorn. so Capricorn is not exactly that fun for the planet of love and jazz because it basically says that I'm cautious and practical and like "conservative" or something.

those are the only parts of my chart that i know about, or at least the one's I remember