It's gonna take a miracle to do my best these final 2 weeks of school. Anyways, here's the prompt for the week:
"Out of the papers you are putting into your English portfolio, which one do you think shows your best work and which one do you think needs to be edited the most? Explain why. Be specific. Provide examples of your best and weakest areas."
In my portfolio, I am choosing the American Lit Essay, the Personal Analysis Essay, and the Research Paper. The one that I believe will show my best work is the Personal Analysis Essay for a variety of reasons. First, this is the paper I am most interested in, mainly because I am talking about sports and competitiveness; two things I can really relate to. Besides that, I'm mentioning a player from my favorite sports team, the Boston Red Sox. I also believe that the player, Jon Lester, and I have a few things in common besides our first names (even though my name is Jonathan). The best area in this paper definitely comes from my introduction where I'm relating competitions with my brother throughout our lives. My weakest area is connecting the part about Lester to my own story. Hopefully I'm able to work on it a bit and change it within the next week.
The paper that needs to be edited the most is essentially a tie between the other two, but I will give it to my American Literature Essay. This is because Rachel helped me come with an interesting spin on the paper that I can totally make my own. Originally, the essay was basically like everyone else's; they talk about Engdahl and give a clear example of literature as support. I'm going to take a different route, in regards to that literature isn't as big as it was in the past, due to technological innovations that have happened over the past few decades. Currently, I don't have any strong or weak areas in the paper because I haven't entirely started to hammer everything out.
Hopefully I can get all 3 papers done, along with the other 2 that I have to finish for other classes. Best wishes to everyone else with their finals and portfolios!
Thursday, April 22, 2010
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Sounds like you've got a lot of work on your hands! I'm interested to see how your Lit essay turns out. I chose that as one of my essays as well and I'm having trouble finding information about current British literature. Your spin sounds interesting and I'm curious to see your argument and examples.
ReplyDeleteAs for your personal analysis essay I agree that it will be your strong paper. This essay will allow you to talk about things that really interest you. It also will be easier because you get to talk about yourself and own life experiences. In trying to connect Lester to yourself you should try focusing on the main similarity and then branch off of that. When I first read your essay it seemed like competitiveness was a big point. If you keep relating Lester's and your story back to this main theme I think it would help pull your stories together.
I hope that helps. Good Luck!