M.+course+reflection

Over the course of the year, I believe I have improved in many ways. I have improved on writing a thesis statement and learning that the thesis statement is the last sentence of the first paragraph. I believe I have improved also on how to engage readers through the first paragraph and keep their attention throughout the whole piece. I can improve on my closing paragraph. I think I can make it a little more intriguing, and not so boring. Compared to the beginning of the year I would get threes or twos out of 6 on my essays or any writing assignment that was given. Since then my skills have definitely enhanced my paper and also the grades I receive on the assignment. My favorite piece of work in the portfolio would have to be the self reliance project. I chose that because the assignment gave me a chance to open up to my classmates and show them how I became independent through art and pictures uploaded on my glogster. The self reliance project was the best assignment we had throughout the course of the year. My least favorite piece of work in the portfolio is the SOL pretest. I don’t see the point honestly of why we have to do a pretest every year. Lastly, my thoughts on wiki spaces versus paper portfolios, is I don’t really like wiki spaces. I would have liked to handwrite my assignments and type them and turn them in, compared to typing everything up and uploading them to wikispaces. Doing everything online is not the best choice for me. I think we should have done everything handwritten, because not everybody has access to a computer every other class period just to upload an assignment to wiki spaces. That concludes my reflection paper.