My Sophomores Honors English Class

Throughout this school year I have shown mastery and improvement on many skills. These skills have ranged from being able to identify, fix, and avoid common grammar errors, to being able to synthesize information into one focused argument. After going through the school year and showing my expertise on these topics through many assignments, I believe that I should receive credit for Sophomores Honors English.
The first learning target that I think I have shown a great deal of improvement on was being able to identify, fix and avoid common grammar errors. Through countless, frustrating and lengthy grammar problems on noredink, I think that I have improved on my grammar skills this semester. If it was not clear that I showed my mastery of grammar concepts on the noredink assignments, the last grammar test we took was pretty solid evidence that I indeed did grow as …show more content…
Another learning target that I believe I have successfully completed this year was being able to synthesize information into one focused argument. When I read this learning target, I immediately felt this one applied to the persuasive speeches we have done this year. We started off with our little pet peeve speech which I felt I completed pretty well. In order to be semi-prepared for this speech I had to do a little research on my topic. Along with researched information, I had to take my personal opinions and thoughts and mesh these ideas into one, cohesive mini speech. And after a little bit of planning, I was able to put together what I believe was a decent speech. The next speech we had to complete was our 100 point persuasive speech on whatever topic we desired to argue about. This speech took a lot more work to compose