Growing up with catholic education, I was primarily taught the importance of reading and writing. The generic hamburger 5-paragraph essay format was on our 10 commandments of writing and so was the idea of a minimum 6-8 sentences per paragraph. Entering high school English class, I found myself in a different situation than most typical high school students. My school offered International Baccalaureate English classes; these classes were structured differently than that of AP or Standard English. In this class, we were left to fend on our own. Our instructor was only allowed to analyze and give feedback on the structure of our essay as opposed to the content within. We as students were sort of like Brian in the novel Hatchet, brought into
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We were able to offer more opinion in our writing, so long that it could be supported. This is shown in the passage from a unit 2 essay below: “In the game of Football, the players are the ones who are seeing and feeling the consequences that result from the game. For the audience on the other hand, their viewpoint is narrowed… The audience doesn’t get to experience and doesn’t bother thinking about as Almond says… “how this impact compresses Stingley’s spinal cord and fractures his fourth and fifth vertebrae” (20). To the general public, no person after watching such a hit is thinking to themselves “I wonder if that person is going to be ok physically?”
As a result of not writing personal narratives in high school, I had a very strong weakness in my writing. That weakness revolved around the nuance of my writing. In my beginning stages of the semester, I simply could not write in such a manner that allowed the reader to be see the situation from my eyes. As time progressed and I began to get more feedback from assignments, my weakness slowly began to dissipate. From comments such
We were able to offer more opinion in our writing, so long that it could be supported. This is shown in the passage from a unit 2 essay below: “In the game of Football, the players are the ones who are seeing and feeling the consequences that result from the game. For the audience on the other hand, their viewpoint is narrowed… The audience doesn’t get to experience and doesn’t bother thinking about as Almond says… “how this impact compresses Stingley’s spinal cord and fractures his fourth and fifth vertebrae” (20). To the general public, no person after watching such a hit is thinking to themselves “I wonder if that person is going to be ok physically?”
As a result of not writing personal narratives in high school, I had a very strong weakness in my writing. That weakness revolved around the nuance of my writing. In my beginning stages of the semester, I simply could not write in such a manner that allowed the reader to be see the situation from my eyes. As time progressed and I began to get more feedback from assignments, my weakness slowly began to dissipate. From comments such