Senior Class Analysis

As I look back on my middle school to high school years and try to decide what kind of writer I am, how well I can interpret and analyze other writings and text, and how easy it is for me to research and compose a well developed paper I believe I am at the level of English 100. From recent years, especially high school, I have learned what kind of writer I am and what techniques work best for me. When it comes to writing papers I have written a fare share, from research expository writings to persuasive writing. This year in particular the senior class is working on our senior papers which is a big research paper, the main goal is to teach us how to find information in large quantities on a subject of choice and insert that information into …show more content…
I’ve noticed that the time our English teacher gives us at school I tend to take for granted because I know I will have a harder time focusing then I would by myself when I am ready to sit down and write. When it comes to reading I have really become better within the past couple years at depicting what I have read in order to answer questions within the lines of the text. This year we have read two books that I have really enjoyed such as Candide and A Thousand Splendid suns. Candide is a Philosophical fiction with satire and A thousand splendid suns is a fictional novel. Both books consist of multiple things going on at once. Candide was published in 1759 during the Age of Enlightenment, so the context of this book are not like books written in the common era. The book is based off the question; Do we live in the best of all possible worlds? While reading I was constantly taking in situations that occurred to the main character and those around him and I had to question if that incident made the character stronger or tore him apart? A Thousand Splendid Suns includes two different stories of two different girls within one book. A lot of back and forth until their two paths