Quarter 1 Reflection

The past quarter has been a growing experience for me. Being in an AP class is not easy and it challenges you, and I’ve learned that the more you are challenged the more you learn. The challenges during first quarter have helped me grow, mostly in my writing skills, and expect to learn more and get better.
The study of literature, to me, is very important. Knowing how to analyze great works of literature may help us analyze daily activities of our lives differently. I’ve learned that if I can analyze a great work of literature and figure out its meaning, than I can do it in my own life.
I enjoy the reading part of AP literature the most because it is something I’m good at. Reading a literary work and finding the meaning behind it is an interesting process that I love to go through. I enjoyed all the literary works that we read the past quarter, and look forward to the more challenging literary works that wait next quarter. Something that did improve my reading and analyzing skills would be the annotating process. I learned that I can retain a lot more information that way. It also helps me go back and find things that I missed before that were important.
I believe that writing is more of a challenge to me than reading and analyzing is. But I also have realized that I write better when I actually sit down and plan it out, instead of just writing off the top of my head. The process of writing the Pancake Paper helped me realize this; I just felt more organized while I was writing, and that I got all I wanted to say down. Over all I think I improved my writing and that I learned that the way I usually did my writing wasn’t the best way. I hope to improve a lot more in the following quarters and highly expect that I do well.
Overall first quarter was like a “back to school refreshing period.” It got me writing again and it also refreshed my memory of the writing process. Although I do know that my writing was not my best, I guess that that’s why there are four quarters in a year, they help retaliate your first bits of work; and I plan to do that.