Survey Questions: Adjectives
Creative- For an example from APULL, I try to avoid essays based off of clichés or other people’s ideas, instead creating essays by thinking about what I got out of the book and the parts that I personally believed were deserving of deeper analysis. Outside of school and writing, I use my creativity in my extracurriculars; I am an excellent French Horn player and have achieved the rank of Honor Thespian for my commitment and contributions to the theatre program here at Edina, bringing my love of dance and experience on the Hip Hop Dance Team to help choreograph many of the dance numbers seen this year in In The Heights. I also love drawing and crafting things out of paper and whatever other materials I have available, …show more content…
Why? Explain and include specific examples.
I am extremely proud of my grades this year, but more than that I am proud of the work ethic and learning skills I have acquired. One would think that studying for tests was pretty straightforward, but I didn’t figure out how to actively learn information until about halfway through tenth grade; I just kind of wished for the best, and it worked out well enough that I never had to put in the extra work to study. Although it took a bit of trial and error to get to the best way for me personally to study and learn, I feel that I have finally found one that works and works well. APULL has been the only class this year that has been significantly different from any of my other classes. All of my other academic classes are fairly predictable: essentially mindless, just memorize the information and you’ll be fine. I am proud that I improved my previous English performance from the five-paragraph essay and its minimal though requirements to the essays I have written this year, which have ended up feeling less like completing an assignment and more like actual writing. I feel much more confident in my writing skills and that the ideas that I am expressing come from a well thought out and thorough …show more content…
This paper was the culmination of all of the skills that I learned throughout the year and the paper where I finally learned how to apply all of the corrections I have received throughout the year. I feel that I had a really strong analysis of my poem, made easier by the fact that I chose a poet and poem that I find absolutely beautiful and captivating. When looking for a poem, I read the entire New and Selected Poems Vol. 1 because I felt that if I stopped after finding some that would work, I would miss out on poems that I liked even more. I had many poems marked that all work well for an analysis, but I ultimately chose my poem because I loved the energy and sorrow and joy and peace and how they all contrasted with each other for a breathtaking overall effect. The focus on nature and discussion of mortality in this poem brings a power to them that I couldn’t help but write about. Regarding my writing process for any essay, I make sure that I understand the work that I am writing my paper on and then begin to think about how the prompt that I am writing for intersects with the parts I find important in the work I am writing about. Knowing the details and pieces of evidence that I want to include in my essay and what I want to say, I come up with a general outline and then think of a basic thesis that evolves as my writing progresses. After writing a rough draft, I print the essay out and edit it by
Creative- For an example from APULL, I try to avoid essays based off of clichés or other people’s ideas, instead creating essays by thinking about what I got out of the book and the parts that I personally believed were deserving of deeper analysis. Outside of school and writing, I use my creativity in my extracurriculars; I am an excellent French Horn player and have achieved the rank of Honor Thespian for my commitment and contributions to the theatre program here at Edina, bringing my love of dance and experience on the Hip Hop Dance Team to help choreograph many of the dance numbers seen this year in In The Heights. I also love drawing and crafting things out of paper and whatever other materials I have available, …show more content…
Why? Explain and include specific examples.
I am extremely proud of my grades this year, but more than that I am proud of the work ethic and learning skills I have acquired. One would think that studying for tests was pretty straightforward, but I didn’t figure out how to actively learn information until about halfway through tenth grade; I just kind of wished for the best, and it worked out well enough that I never had to put in the extra work to study. Although it took a bit of trial and error to get to the best way for me personally to study and learn, I feel that I have finally found one that works and works well. APULL has been the only class this year that has been significantly different from any of my other classes. All of my other academic classes are fairly predictable: essentially mindless, just memorize the information and you’ll be fine. I am proud that I improved my previous English performance from the five-paragraph essay and its minimal though requirements to the essays I have written this year, which have ended up feeling less like completing an assignment and more like actual writing. I feel much more confident in my writing skills and that the ideas that I am expressing come from a well thought out and thorough …show more content…
This paper was the culmination of all of the skills that I learned throughout the year and the paper where I finally learned how to apply all of the corrections I have received throughout the year. I feel that I had a really strong analysis of my poem, made easier by the fact that I chose a poet and poem that I find absolutely beautiful and captivating. When looking for a poem, I read the entire New and Selected Poems Vol. 1 because I felt that if I stopped after finding some that would work, I would miss out on poems that I liked even more. I had many poems marked that all work well for an analysis, but I ultimately chose my poem because I loved the energy and sorrow and joy and peace and how they all contrasted with each other for a breathtaking overall effect. The focus on nature and discussion of mortality in this poem brings a power to them that I couldn’t help but write about. Regarding my writing process for any essay, I make sure that I understand the work that I am writing my paper on and then begin to think about how the prompt that I am writing for intersects with the parts I find important in the work I am writing about. Knowing the details and pieces of evidence that I want to include in my essay and what I want to say, I come up with a general outline and then think of a basic thesis that evolves as my writing progresses. After writing a rough draft, I print the essay out and edit it by