“Knowledge has a beginning but no end”. Whoever said this quote is a true believer in learning. Over the past semester, I have learned many things that have helped me in school but there are many things that also have helped me with the outside world. My own learning and education is something that will ultimately build my entire life. Books, writing, even Shakespeare 's Hamlet has given me skills that I could not acquire anywhere else. Reflection on the things I have learned over the past semester will even help me learn more things. First, There have been many characteristics and things I have learned from the choice independent books I have read over this semester. I believe what I learned the most was how to have courage to do things
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They have all had things to do with finding courage to do things that you are not used to doing. I believe that says that I like reading books where the main character has a problem that he/she can overcome and have the courage to overcome it. Most of the times the problem is an obstacle that he/she is not used to doing. This pattern in my reading is very unique I think. Most people stereotype me to be a jock who does nothing but plays sports and never picks up books or read. I love to play sports but I also like to read. The fact that i read books where the main character needs an oppressive amount of courage is very unique in its own kind of way. Many of the books that I’ve read this year have actually made me see the world a bit different than normal. In “Sympathy for the Devil”, the main character has to deal with Americans from the 1960’s in which they were very prejudice against Vietnam soldiers. After reading that, I had a greater respect for not only Vietnam veterans but all veterans. It made the way I view our military different as well. There were not as many rules back then in the Military as …show more content…
Writing is the basis to learning. That is why, I believe, we write so much in school. Writing has really taught me alot over the years of my education. In english class, Mrs. Rickert would make us write 5 pages a week. Most people hated it and wouldn 't finish it until the end of the week. I actually liked it. It gave me a chance to work on my skills as a writer and also put down what 's on my mind. I liked it because Mrs. Rickert wouldn’t ever judge you on what you wrote about because that was a chance to write down what is on your brain. Most of the writing that I, myself did, was mainly writing song lyrics that I made up myself unless we had a topic to write about. Whenever we got a topic, I would always make a goal to make it funny in someway. We could be writing about world problems and i’d find a way to make it funny. My best writing style is probably when I am carefree and just roll on with some pointless story. Some of the things I write about are how the world works, how different things are now then they were 5 or 6 years ago and so on. Basically just things nobody really pays attention to but me. My most favorite thing to write about though was my girl. I could write for days about my Brianna without stopping. Whenever Mrs. Rickert would give us time to write, my entire notebook would be filled with pages and pages about her. I have literally used 2 full notebooks on just
They have all had things to do with finding courage to do things that you are not used to doing. I believe that says that I like reading books where the main character has a problem that he/she can overcome and have the courage to overcome it. Most of the times the problem is an obstacle that he/she is not used to doing. This pattern in my reading is very unique I think. Most people stereotype me to be a jock who does nothing but plays sports and never picks up books or read. I love to play sports but I also like to read. The fact that i read books where the main character needs an oppressive amount of courage is very unique in its own kind of way. Many of the books that I’ve read this year have actually made me see the world a bit different than normal. In “Sympathy for the Devil”, the main character has to deal with Americans from the 1960’s in which they were very prejudice against Vietnam soldiers. After reading that, I had a greater respect for not only Vietnam veterans but all veterans. It made the way I view our military different as well. There were not as many rules back then in the Military as …show more content…
Writing is the basis to learning. That is why, I believe, we write so much in school. Writing has really taught me alot over the years of my education. In english class, Mrs. Rickert would make us write 5 pages a week. Most people hated it and wouldn 't finish it until the end of the week. I actually liked it. It gave me a chance to work on my skills as a writer and also put down what 's on my mind. I liked it because Mrs. Rickert wouldn’t ever judge you on what you wrote about because that was a chance to write down what is on your brain. Most of the writing that I, myself did, was mainly writing song lyrics that I made up myself unless we had a topic to write about. Whenever we got a topic, I would always make a goal to make it funny in someway. We could be writing about world problems and i’d find a way to make it funny. My best writing style is probably when I am carefree and just roll on with some pointless story. Some of the things I write about are how the world works, how different things are now then they were 5 or 6 years ago and so on. Basically just things nobody really pays attention to but me. My most favorite thing to write about though was my girl. I could write for days about my Brianna without stopping. Whenever Mrs. Rickert would give us time to write, my entire notebook would be filled with pages and pages about her. I have literally used 2 full notebooks on just