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Imagine coming into your freshman year of high school english class, hating english. Now i’m not going to lie that person you are imagining right now was me. Looking back on 8th grade I didn’t even read a whole book! We would be forced to read books and if I didn’t like the book I wouldn’t read it, simple as that. Honestly as long as you're listened carefully to the teachers lectures you would be fine. I pinky swear promise, if you are coming into english right now with the attitude I had get ready to do a 180 turn around.
Coming into english on the first day I sat down in this unfamiliar room in this unfamiliar school with all these unfamiliar people, scary right. Now think on the first day and this big scary teacher say, “One thing …show more content…
I am in the AVID program and we started to write personal statements a couple weeks ago. A personal statement is a short piece of writing where you answer to a prompt about some kind of experience in your life, the catch was it had to be 500-700 words. Now in english we wrote an 100 page expository about some life event you experience. I will tell you right now my first draft was way over 100 words, but after many hours of cutting down the story I managed to get it to 105 words (close enough according to Mr.Dayton). This time with my personal statement I was determined to stay in the word count range, but at the same time be able to tell my story in a complete way. After three days of writing my personal statement I finished it. I started to read through it and was flabbergasted about how mature my writing sounded. I was able to throw big words into the statement, (that I mostly learned from the books I was reading) and put them in. I think writing that paper was a big point for me showing that I became such a stronger writer just in the last 18 weeks then I could have ever imagined. This experience will stick with me forever because I felt like it was almost like my reflection. It was a look back from seeing where I was entering freshman english and where I was now, and I won’t lie to you I was pretty proud of
Imagine coming into your freshman year of high school english class, hating english. Now i’m not going to lie that person you are imagining right now was me. Looking back on 8th grade I didn’t even read a whole book! We would be forced to read books and if I didn’t like the book I wouldn’t read it, simple as that. Honestly as long as you're listened carefully to the teachers lectures you would be fine. I pinky swear promise, if you are coming into english right now with the attitude I had get ready to do a 180 turn around.
Coming into english on the first day I sat down in this unfamiliar room in this unfamiliar school with all these unfamiliar people, scary right. Now think on the first day and this big scary teacher say, “One thing …show more content…
I am in the AVID program and we started to write personal statements a couple weeks ago. A personal statement is a short piece of writing where you answer to a prompt about some kind of experience in your life, the catch was it had to be 500-700 words. Now in english we wrote an 100 page expository about some life event you experience. I will tell you right now my first draft was way over 100 words, but after many hours of cutting down the story I managed to get it to 105 words (close enough according to Mr.Dayton). This time with my personal statement I was determined to stay in the word count range, but at the same time be able to tell my story in a complete way. After three days of writing my personal statement I finished it. I started to read through it and was flabbergasted about how mature my writing sounded. I was able to throw big words into the statement, (that I mostly learned from the books I was reading) and put them in. I think writing that paper was a big point for me showing that I became such a stronger writer just in the last 18 weeks then I could have ever imagined. This experience will stick with me forever because I felt like it was almost like my reflection. It was a look back from seeing where I was entering freshman english and where I was now, and I won’t lie to you I was pretty proud of