Throughout this English course I have learned how to create and analyze different writing styles; we mainly looked into creative and analytical writing but also learned about what makes a great media source. We pursued different media, writing and discussing why it was made the way it was and the influences they had while producing it. We inspected three different poets from WWI; looking deeper into why they wrote in the way they did and used what we knew to create some of our own poems about WWI and some interests that we hold ourselves. Studying the modern book, On the Come Up opened me up to yet another style of writing; writing in that style of first person gave me an even better understanding of it. Finally we dove into Shakespeare, reading Macbeth as a class; exploring his influences gave us a greater grasp on his thoughts when writing it. Applying all of this information and influences we made our own story: made a summary of the plot, two pages of the book to show how we would write in it and presented it as if we were selling it to several publishers. I will utilize these skills that I have learned to furthermore my knowledge of English courses in years to come. I have designed my website to show my passions; this can be seen from the many hockey photos of myself and throughout my creative writing pieces.
Malakai Magyar and Stanley Z. Cohen
The media I chose to analyze was The Bigger Picture by Lil Baby. Lil Baby being one of my favorite artists made it easy for me to write about. I did well on this assignment because I displayed my knowledge of the song, knowledge of the issue that it addressed and I showed ability to point out key parts of the song to support my thesis. I showed great communication with my spelling, punctuation and grammar along with expressing my ability to write in an enlightened and conventional way which made it clear to the reader that Lil Baby created the song to preach his thoughts about the BLM movement after George Floyd’s death in 2020, and some experiences he's had with police. If I were to rewrite this piece I would focus on giving more reliable secondary sources to show that it is reputable and I will continue to carefully scrutinize elements of the media for further assignments.
Bri throughout On the Come Up shows a variety of different personalities around different people but she shows her true identity when she is around the people she loves. I am proud of this thesis for my writing piece about Bri’s identity, I made it essential that I showed my cognizance of the novel, characters and the issues that they encountered. I used quotations to constantly refer back to my thesis; while showing my knowledge of key words and metaphors that Thomas used. I also used a secondary source from Elon Musk to help support my thesis by comparing Bri's situation to real world problems, this showed a deep awareness of the novel. To improve this writing I could start my introduction with a stronger hook to make the reader want to read more as well as looking closer for grammar and punctuation mistakes. The positives I can take from this piece is to repeatedly use quotations to validate my thesis and to keep analyzing structure and language features in books to come.
I thought the poetry unit was going to be the worst, be a pain
But I found myself enjoying it, I did not complain
Poetry is much more than a rhyme, the reflection is key
It shows your knowledge of the subject to the fullest degree
I realized that the reflection was everything after my first poem; I had all the same language features yet I got a worse mark because I didn’t justify my words in the reflection. That’s the reason why I was so successful when writing Game Plan. I showed an indefinite understanding of my topic, I validated my poetic methods in the reflection and I conveyed my influences clearly. I showed a complete understanding of both structure and language features, my words were written with correct spelling, punctuation and grammar while connecting each line of my poem well. I am proud of my ability to reflect on my work in this piece because it shows my improvement from the last poem I made and I will take that with me for the next time I write a poem as well.
I chose this as one of my best pieces of writing because I found this poem insightful. It made me more aware of how people of colour were treated in the early 1900's, I knew that they were treated awful. I didn't know that even after fighting and serving for the country they would still be discriminated against. That’s a major reason why I achieved the rubric, I felt a distress for them. I was able to captivate the knowledge from the poem with context along with analyzing different structure and language features to create a thesis and regularly refer back to it while writing in a sophisticated manner. I am pleased that I formed a different interpretation to give a better understanding of the topic. What I would improve for the future is my grammar and punctuation to take this analysis to the next level.
I am proud of this Macbeth essay because I found it challenging to follow the play but once I read over some key segments of the play I built up a good understanding of it. I did this by showing my knowledge of the context of characters and how they act. I established a great thesis and supported it throughout; I used quotations from Macbeth and Lady Macbeth that were internal and external thoughts to show how their influence on each. I pointed out and interpreted language and the structure of the text; writing in a polish fashion for the duration of the essay by showing my communication skills rigorously. I regret not looking over my piece of writing for mistakes in grammar and punctuation nevertheless I will prolong my ability to analyze the structure and language features of reports for future to come.
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