The Pickwick Papers

Pencil in hand, I aggressively scribbled notes into a large notebook on all there is to know about the orbital cavity of the human skull. I could not get through a day without cracking it open and learning something about human physiology. Reading and questioning the world was my pastime. Even in the wee hours of the night, I would take out a flashlight and peruse my book for information because my curiosity ran rampant; exchanged precious hours of sleep for precious hours of learning. A simple…

Joanna Flores Reflection English 1AF- Section 32 Prof. Smith Self-Reflection Essay Over the Fall semester of 2017, I have expanded my level of reading and writing in Stretch English. Some strategies that have helped me succeed this semester are annotation, revision, summarization, and drafting. As for reading to learn, articles in the New York Times have helped me a great deal. I learned to read different pieces and understand various authors’ ways of writing. I would print and annotate…

Breana Staten Title: Splintered Author: A.G Howard 1. As an avid reader I have read a multitude of books of all different genres. . I have experienced an innumerable amount of worlds and a multitude of characters with various characteristics. Lately, I have been in a reading slump, not craving the need to read an excellent book with an outstanding plot and well developed characters. However, when assigned to obtain an IR book for English class I decided to read Splintered by A.G Howard which…

This paper is about no ordinary man. This man is smart, talented, handsome and perfect. Of course it is I , Blake stoughton. I was not the best paper writer that has ever walked this earth but I have improved immensely. Many things have changed for the better, and somethings have not changed that need to. These papers have taught me a lot about how to read and comprehend papers better. My writing techniques and how I approach writing a paper has changed a lot. The first thing that has changed…

Have you ever had your blood pumping or heart racing while reading a book? If not then Peter Benchley’s book will make that happen. Peter Benchley was born May 08, 1940 in New York, he has written many books and many of them have been made into movies. But his most famous book is “Jaws”, yes it was a book before Steven Spielberg made it into a movie. “Jaws” the book was very famous it sold about 20 million copies, this famous book is about a killer shark in a seaside resort in Long Island in…

When I started my search I actually started my paper I first decide that I would do Fort Hall but I wasn’t having much luck finding anything on that so I decided to change up my subject. I thought up my new subject I decided to do my paper on Abraham Lincoln’s presidency because I thought that I would find a lot more with that topic so I switched up and I went down to the library to find a book that I could borrow to help me with my research and sure enough as soon as I started looking I found a…

I feel as if I’ve grown a lot while taking english 3 and having Mrs. Stigger as my teacher. I do know I have got many more ideas while writing now and I know a write more clear and presentable. Rhetorical devices is something I can say I have learned so much more about this year. I have learned to understand them more by using them in my writing by applying them when I need to use them. I have got more familiar with using them more because of poetry, I believe that we mostly use them in poetry…

1. What is the book you’ve given most as a gift, and why? Or what are one to three books that have greatly influenced your life? Due to my teacher assigning the class a list of book to choose from for our assignment, I was introduced to “The Scarlet Letter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Despite it being set in the 1600s in a Puritan colony in Massachusetts, it had topics that I enjoyed reading about and could resonate with. Having a female main character, like Hester Prynne, was talented of Hawthorne…

to understand from the start of the school year, not only that, but also just me trying to throughly write an explanation of what I have thought of in mind. Sometimes it doesn’t come out on the paper as I have, have in my thoughts. Which in return create flaws in my level one, two, or three writing paper that affect my writing skills. The flaws that I have slightly improve on my writing: create a clear and stronger thesis statement, subject- verb agreement, and transitioning. Constructing a firm…

Denver University Pioneer Application Essay In this essay I will be sharing with you one of the most horrific, traumatic and probably the most definitive moments of my life. Here I will explain what happened and how it affected my life - The Aurora shooting at the Century 16 Movie Theater. So there I was sitting in my seat, talking to my friend, Spenser and her boyfriend Austin and our moms. So I am sitting there waiting for the movie to start. I had just bout myself a new Batman t-shirt.…