Blogging to the End

I remember the first time we were told we were going to have a blog for assignments. My first thought was that I would never remember to do the assigned blogs each week. Another thought I had was that I could write really cool things and people would like what I said.

 Looking back at my very first blog, Giselle’s intro, you can tell I was just trying to add more than I really wanted to say. I tried to make my first blog post look impressive so classmates might be interested to read my blog.

Some of my earlier blogs I always felt the need to check about books before I wrote them because I wasn’t completely sure of a point I was trying to prove in a piece of writing. Reading my blogs in order, you can see the total difference in tone. From my blog post, My writing My way.. (Extra Credit!), you can read that I have more of an opinion on things, and I have fun writing it. The blog posts from then on sounded more like how I would explain topics like the poem “Lobsters”. What I learned is that I just need to write what I think with supportive evidence, and I shouldn’t babble on something that I don’t know about.

“ But these are flowers that fly and all but sing: And now from having ridden out desire” This quote is from the poem, “Blue-Butterfly Day” by Robert Frost. I really like this quote from his poem because not only does it talk about the nature of butterflies, but talks about children. I think these lines represent how I have the knowledge to put the correct answers but I don’t and I am “ridden out desire”, meaning that I wished I would want to include more in my blog. When I do my blogs I second guess what I wrote worried if I will sound stupid or something is inaccurate or wrong. 

My favorite blog posts are ones that we did reading Great Expectations. We made many references to different literature writing, and objects. Mainly we did the important metaphors to enhance a certain theme. I really enjoyed reading my, GE Photo Post, about comparing Pip to a flower. Here is some analysis I did on Pip and the flower on that blog, “I compared Pip to a flower because he was a daisy in spring, healthy and full. As time goes on flower petals fall off, the events happening to Pip makes indecisive. The flower cannot restore it's petal in one day, the daisy will come back in spring and repeat the process. Pip is loosing all his petals, he isn't becoming his true self.” I think if I wrote like this for majority of my blogs, it would enjoy writing blogs more because it is fun to make comparisons and your originally viewpoint on something.My other Great Expectations post I liked was, Making Connects with GE. I connected the story to Edgar Allen Poe's The Tell Tale Heart I liked it because I connected the stories and it wasn't as difficult as other posts were.

Honors English this year was very fun! We got to practice our essay writing skills and improve our vocabulary with some help of word power. We also got to experience routine blogging on the internet. Quite a year it has been; and there will always been at least one great highlight each day in English!

So long Freshman Year!

-Giselle