“HOW I’VE GROWN AS A WRITER”

Throughout my school year here in West Adams, I have always had good grades I have never experience an F or a D…. well I have I’m not going to lie and it was only once in the 9th grade. The subject I failed was P.E. I know how lame right? I know that once you hit high school its all about getting good grades and truly its for our own good, you know to be someone successful in life. Someone I look up to is my sister she always encourages me to never give up. I really should listen to her because she has never given up. Why because she has never given up and there is proof for that she goes to SMC college and she works too. So far she has excellent grades and that’s something amazing to see.
I have grown to be a writer in this class for many reasons. Before I would write but I never used quotation marks and that just ruined a paper I started to notice that my writing was not efficient I wanted to make it better. Coming in this class improved me a lot. First I would never write essays because I was scared to, I mean I did but not good enough. When I realized that I was actually writing an essay I started thinking that I knew all of this and why was I bugging out on it. One thing that messed me up was the comas and quotes. Mr. Abraham helped me in that situation I had a teacher I had in 9th grade and coming into this class helped me even more. I have written a lot of essay’s in this class the thing I like about it is that you write the essay’s on the computer and put them in a blog where people can see them and give there advise on our essays which I think is a great way to make me and the whole class a better writer.
An essay I loved writing was the found poem. Now this poem was put in the blog for everyone to see. The thing I loved writing was how you had to choose a real nice poem and write your opinion about it. I choose Sonnet 30 by Edna St. Vincent Millay. I loved describing the poem. The poem was obviously passionate she talks about how love is not a game and how many men and women take it as a cure to their wounds also how she might not love a special someone but she realizes that its not worth losing love for someone that might love her back. The thing is that the poem is short but really descriptive. A thing I noticed was that I actually love to write poems I get really into them I guess I like to describe what I’m writing.
I also enjoyed writing the narrative with song lyrics the song I choose was an underground hip hop song by a group of guys that go by the name of atmosphere. I related a lot with this song that’s why I agreed to write about it. The title of the song is “fuck you Lucy.” Although it refers to a girl the lyrics say what happened to me and that’s why I like this song. Basically what this song talks about is how he use to know a girl but I guess the girl just wanted a friendship and not a relationship but the thing is that the girl showed emotions towards him which made him fall in love with Lucy and now she wants to come in to his life and be friends and he really doesn’t know if he should because of all the pain she has caused him. Everyone is telling him to be persistent. I really loved writing about this song it just hit me strong because everything it said had to do with my story. This of course made me a better writer because it gave me a better way to understand the meaning of describing what I’m writing about. It also gave me a better understanding in literary terms. I loved this class and I thank my teacher for making me a better writer.