The Importance Of Connotating For Writing

I feel that I’ve done a fairly well with reading, writing, thinking, listening, and speaking this term. There are however, things I haven’t put my full effort into and things I need to work on for class next term.
For reading this term, I have read every assignment and I read most fairly thoroughly. I always annotate, but not always as well as I should. I think I really need to work on annotating and reading more in depth on the assignments. I also need to work on looking up words or references I may not understand more often, because I think that this would help me to understand the reading on a deeper level. I’ll continue to be consistent with reading the assignments, and for next term I will try to really dig into the reading by annotating …show more content…
Writing can be difficult for me when I only have a certain amount of time, because I often have a hard time getting all my ducks(ideas) in a row. One essay I was particularly proud of this term was the most recent one, the in class writing on a poem. I feel that even though I struggled with the organization of my ideas, and went off on a tangent at the end, there was definitely some potential for my future writing on poems. I also didn’t struggle as much as I thought I would, even though I still did. I definitely need to work on the organization of my writing for the next term, in order to incorporate all of my ideas in a way that makes more sense. I also need to not procrastinate as much on reviewing terms when I know there will be an in class writing. Next term I will try to come up with a better system for organizing my ideas so that they are better portrayed on paper. For thinking and listening this term, I usually thought very carefully about my assignments, and I listened to in class instructions and my peers opinions. As with reading, I think I need to dive deeper into my ideas while I’m thinking. For listening, I think I might need to write more things down, as I’m a forgetful person. I’m not very proud of the fact that things often slip my mind, only to remember them later and proceed to panic (i.e. This reflection). For next term I will work on my thinking and listening skills in not just AP Lit but in my other classes as well, and I will write things down more