Creative accounting

Figurative Language Practice Homework (DON’T WAIT UNTIL THE LAST MINUTE) Directions: Choose only one answer. You are responsible for making clean marks and erasing your mistakes. Try your best. When you are done, check your answers. Work on this on Monday Evening: Match the term with the definition. Type your response on the document. I will try to upload a scantron for you to use, but don’t wait for me to do so! Matching: For questions 1 through 4. Not all of the choices are used.…

Veronica Roth Veronica Roth uses the excellent writing craft to write powerful impacting books including Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant, and Four. Veronica’s writing is so descriptive it’s easy for readers to visualize, includes strong character development, and gives morals to the readers. The craft connects the reader’s life to the story, influencing the reader to be brave, take a change, and embrace life as much as you can. Roth adds great detail allowing her readers to visualize. For…

“Temporary Home” by Carrie Underwood is the perfect song to compare to the My Favorite Word essay. In this song she sings about a few storylines. There about people who are living in houses, not homes. This is a major topic throughout my paper. There are connotations with the word house. It feels cold and focuses on the structure. A home is inviting and full of loved ones. This song represents that idea, which is why I chose it. When I handed in my essay for peer response I did not have a…

Advanced Placement Language requires many desirable characteristics to flourish in the class and in life. I belong in AP English because I possess a strong work ethic, find English interesting and want to challenge myself. I also comprehend the significance and essentiality of writing and long to improve my knowledge for college and my future career. Before choosing to take AP English, I heard many interesting and contradicting comments about the class, ranging from, “hardest class I have ever…

Every person has strengths and weaknesses when it comes to writing papers and after writing multiple papers throughout my high school career, I’ve discovered I have more weaknesses than strengths. I believe that I noticed more weaknesses than strengths because it is easier for a person to point out the flaws in themselves rather than the positives. My greatest strengths are not procrastinating, staying focussed when writing and using a variety of vocabulary words. A few of my weaknesses are…

In John Holt’s “How teachers make children hate reading”, Holt argues that rather than students trying to understand what they’re reading or writing they should simply just enjoy it. He claims that when teacher’s stress to their students “understanding” and not making mistakes interferes with the student’s growth as readers and writers. Holt provides many supporting arguments that strengthen his claim. One claim that I agree with is when Holt states, “Third, and most important, we learn to write…

I’m not like the usual people who write, I don’t have to write. I’m not the person who has to pour his or her soul on the paper just to make it through the day. When I wrote my first screenplay for an eleven minute long short film, I was ecstatic. My over sentimental feelings were finally being released and I could stop bursting out in tears in the slightest misfortune. Since I was younger I had the habit of bottling up my feelings and often would release them at the most inappropriate moments.…

Follow me as I tell the tale of a girl who lost her confidence in writing. There once was a girl named Oretha who loved to write stories any chance she could. Her mind was a fairytale and when she put a pen on paper her characters would come to life. It was like painting a picture only hers was an imaginary world. How did she learn to write you might ask. Well, it is because she read tons of books. so many she can hardly count. Those books helped her realize her love for fairy tales and she…

This year so far has been a growing period in respect to my learning. English 1101 has helped me to learn many concepts; some of these being writing, reading, peer-editing, and time management. These concepts are not solely related to the basis of this class, but rather related to real-world skills. They are things that are applicable to everyday life. Over the course of progression, we are all going to have some forms of challenges. My biggest challenge so far is time management. Managing time…

In elementary school, I was obsessed with poetry; or, what I considered to be poetry. Really, I was just obsessed with Shel Silverstein. At every visit to the school library, I would rush to the poetry section and look for the thick, white, plastic binding of any Silverstein collection. It didn’t matter if I’d already checked out the book three or four times already, as long as it was different than the one I had just replaced on the metal return cart. I didn’t really have a favorite collection.…