Sophomore English Reflection

After the hero's journey, I stand here looking in the mirror as a new writer, thinker, speaker and participant. I am not the same person that stood in front of this mirror on the first day of Sophomore English. The journey was long and fulfilling and i've experienced many obstacles and challenges along the way that have shaped the person I see in the mirror now. The second semester of english was much more riveting for me and I felt that I was truly able to express my creativity and passion for literature and english throughout the activities, writing assignments and readings that were apart of the second half of the journey.
In our first step into poetry I was very hesitant and nervous. I didn’t know how to write poems and I definitely hadn't …show more content…
The purpose was to just let all of your creativity flow without stopping for hesitation or judgement. The first day that we had to write was the hardest. I felt uncomfortable writing because I was embarrassed that it might not be perfect, or it might not come out how I wanted it to. But, that was the magic of the ten minute writing, it wasn't always perfect but every idea went straight from your head to your fingertips and you rapidly wrote out everything and sometimes at the end of it, you had something pretty good. There was something special about the silence of everyone in the room. Everyone was so focused and in tuned with their writing that there was nothing but creative energy and peacefulness to whip up something that was formed from internalizing your ideas and letting your imagination create a story. Each ten minute writing was a preparation for the final “test”. The final “test” was the short story. Each day when we were developing a character, plot and creating a story with detail and description our final obstacle was to create one big story. The ten minute writing pieces had prepared us for the short story and when we got the chance to write you were able to make anything happen. At