To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee: Student Analysis

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In school, we mainly wrote research papers and a few analysis papers. Especially in middle school, we learned to research different subjects and we would write kind of basic papers on them. In seventh grade, I had to write a research paper on a project I did. I made a video game using a computer language and I had to describe the process. The paper was so memorable because I spent a lot of time on the project and I put a lot of effort into it. I wasn't until high school that I started to write analyses. During my sophmore year of highschool, I wrote an analysis on "To Kill a Mockingbird". I remember it so well because I really enjoyed the book and it was one of the first papers for that semester. before my junior year, i associated school

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