Dear Me in August,
Its crazy to see how far you have come this past year. You have been able to portray that your writing has grown significantly this past year through the multiple assignments Mrs. Carter has graciously given out. Although your writing has considerably increased, I will be the first to point out your weaknesses. Analyzing poetry has always been a struggle but i believe that throughout this past year you have diligently worked hard on this tedious fragment of writing and have been able to make a noteworthy change from the beginning of the year. I am without hesitation to proclaim that your strength in writing is when you are given a prose passage to analyze.
Mrs. Carter has been able to open the gate for the path of success but it was up to you to take that first step. It became evident that you wanted to better your writing when you put in the effort to increase your poetry time writing from a three to a six. The reason I picked the poetry timed writing that involves "a Barred Owl" and "The History Teacher" is because this was one of the latest poetry timed writing that was assigned and I received a 5 on it. Out of the poetry assignments I picked I wanted to focus on this one because it resembles the type of free-response question that I am going to have to deal with for the AP Exam. I believe that if I spend time analyzing my poetry free-response writing that I will be able to greater my score during the AP exam and receive AP credit. I resembled the same mind-set when choosing "The Things They Carried" timed writing, for Prose, because this was the last timed writing that was assigned to the class and I was able to receive a 6 on it. I also selected the timed writing we did on "The Street" because this timed writing was prior to "The Things They Carried" timed writing and I wanted to demonstrate the improvement from these two prose timed writings.
The improvements between the two timed writing's are focused around the idea of having complete knowledge of the piece I was writing about. While I was writing about "The Things They Carried" I had a full understanding of the novel and was able to construct particular ideas that were ideal with the question at hand. With "The Street" I do not believe that I spend enough time analyzing the section to grasp the full concept to write a well developed paper on this novel. Along with this, time management seemed to be difficult during the timed writing on "The Street" whereas I managed my time fairly well during TTTC timed writing. These improvements, along with a few others, helped develop me as a better writer.
The reason that I picked "The Scarlet Ibis" symbolism paper is because I believe that there is a great deal of room for improvement and symbolism is a very broad topic that can easily be used on any passage given for the AP exam. Analyzing my work and constructing a quality paper around the idea of symbolism could prove to be very helpful during the AP exam. The last artifact that I deliberately picked was the Hamlet Act II response. The main reason for picking this is so that I will re-familiarize myself with Hamlet because this play contains many scenes that would be ideal examples for essay prompts that I may receive during the AP exam. Hamlet was able to enrich myself as a writer and a reader because it is fairly difficult to uncover the underlying meaning beneath the poetic verses within the play and I slowly began to understand what Shakespeare was saying quicker throughout the play.
Along with Hamlet and "The Things They Carried," another literary novel that impacted me as a writer was "The Poisonwood Bible" this novel was unlike many novels that I have read in the past. The structure of "The Poisonwood Bible" was peculiar and it opened my mind to a different style of writing. I enjoyed reading different parts of the plot form multiple narratives and the amount of years that the novel covered was almost outrageous.
With these tools that have been put out on display for me and my classmates, I plan on carrying them with me throughout college and putting them to use in whatever way, shape, or form that will benefit me the most. With the amount of exerts from novels, plays, and poems that were analyzed this past year, I have grown comfortable enough to quickly and efficiently analyze a large range of literature.
Chandler Corley
Its crazy to see how far you have come this past year. You have been able to portray that your writing has grown significantly this past year through the multiple assignments Mrs. Carter has graciously given out. Although your writing has considerably increased, I will be the first to point out your weaknesses. Analyzing poetry has always been a struggle but i believe that throughout this past year you have diligently worked hard on this tedious fragment of writing and have been able to make a noteworthy change from the beginning of the year. I am without hesitation to proclaim that your strength in writing is when you are given a prose passage to analyze.
Mrs. Carter has been able to open the gate for the path of success but it was up to you to take that first step. It became evident that you wanted to better your writing when you put in the effort to increase your poetry time writing from a three to a six. The reason I picked the poetry timed writing that involves "a Barred Owl" and "The History Teacher" is because this was one of the latest poetry timed writing that was assigned and I received a 5 on it. Out of the poetry assignments I picked I wanted to focus on this one because it resembles the type of free-response question that I am going to have to deal with for the AP Exam. I believe that if I spend time analyzing my poetry free-response writing that I will be able to greater my score during the AP exam and receive AP credit. I resembled the same mind-set when choosing "The Things They Carried" timed writing, for Prose, because this was the last timed writing that was assigned to the class and I was able to receive a 6 on it. I also selected the timed writing we did on "The Street" because this timed writing was prior to "The Things They Carried" timed writing and I wanted to demonstrate the improvement from these two prose timed writings.
The improvements between the two timed writing's are focused around the idea of having complete knowledge of the piece I was writing about. While I was writing about "The Things They Carried" I had a full understanding of the novel and was able to construct particular ideas that were ideal with the question at hand. With "The Street" I do not believe that I spend enough time analyzing the section to grasp the full concept to write a well developed paper on this novel. Along with this, time management seemed to be difficult during the timed writing on "The Street" whereas I managed my time fairly well during TTTC timed writing. These improvements, along with a few others, helped develop me as a better writer.
The reason that I picked "The Scarlet Ibis" symbolism paper is because I believe that there is a great deal of room for improvement and symbolism is a very broad topic that can easily be used on any passage given for the AP exam. Analyzing my work and constructing a quality paper around the idea of symbolism could prove to be very helpful during the AP exam. The last artifact that I deliberately picked was the Hamlet Act II response. The main reason for picking this is so that I will re-familiarize myself with Hamlet because this play contains many scenes that would be ideal examples for essay prompts that I may receive during the AP exam. Hamlet was able to enrich myself as a writer and a reader because it is fairly difficult to uncover the underlying meaning beneath the poetic verses within the play and I slowly began to understand what Shakespeare was saying quicker throughout the play.
Along with Hamlet and "The Things They Carried," another literary novel that impacted me as a writer was "The Poisonwood Bible" this novel was unlike many novels that I have read in the past. The structure of "The Poisonwood Bible" was peculiar and it opened my mind to a different style of writing. I enjoyed reading different parts of the plot form multiple narratives and the amount of years that the novel covered was almost outrageous.
With these tools that have been put out on display for me and my classmates, I plan on carrying them with me throughout college and putting them to use in whatever way, shape, or form that will benefit me the most. With the amount of exerts from novels, plays, and poems that were analyzed this past year, I have grown comfortable enough to quickly and efficiently analyze a large range of literature.
Chandler Corley