Well, it's the end. What a good freshman year this has been. I feel that I have learned so much in this 9th grade honors english class and I think that is evident through my 27 blogs. When Mrs. Gilman first mentioned that one of our grades would be to keep a blog I was so excited. I could hardly wait for blogging to begin! I could just keep thinking about how cool would it be to do some of the assignments online. Later in the year after about 4 blogs I was annoyed at the idea that every Friday I had to spend a little time on a blog. Not to mentioned that the blogs were assigned about a week in advance, but my wonderful habit of procrastination usually kept me up to do them right before the little clock on my computer said 12:00. (As the year went on this habit gradually faded away)
It is was really fun to see as I look through all of my past blogs I remember all of the assignments we did this year. I had completely forgotten about reading The Importance of Being Earnest and Poetry Outloud. My favorite blogs to look at are the picture posts where we had to find a picture or movie that related to something else. It's almost as if when you go back and look blog by blog you see the whole year in motion in a short amount of time.
Although I didn't always enjoy doing every blog, I see a big change in my writing level from the beginning of the year until now. I think that I have also improved in being able to think creatively to find a response to a blog assignment and not just giving an obvious answer. One quote that I think sums up my blogging experience is by Lewis Carroll (I also happen to really like this quote because Lewis Carroll was the author of the poem I recited for Poetry Out Loud) Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it." This quote is so true for all of the assignments, blogs, projects, and essays we have been assigned this year. The main idea in everything was always to find the theme and prove a lesson of what you thought was important. In all of our blogs we were supposed to find our own response to the subject which is why this quote works perfectly.
Over all I really enjoyed my blogging experience and I will miss it next year. :( Having to write weekly in away that all of my peers can see my work, and writing about specific interesting topics helped make the process of writing and coming up with ideas a lot easier which is a huge accomplishment for me. Thank you Mrs. Gilman for making blogging an assignment. It really has made me more confident in writing assignments for my future in high school and for the rest of my education experience.
Goodbye Molly's Blog :)
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