Personal Narrative: What I Learned In My Freshman English Class

During my freshman year at Lakeridge High School I have learned so much information in so little time, I cannot believe how much I have grown as a person and as a student. In my Freshman English class, I have grown and expanded my knowledge of what I had barely known before. Coming from the Portland Public School District, I had not learned as much as the other kids coming in from Lakeridge Junior High. This was a major challenge for me in every class, especially English. First semester was extremely rough for me because I had to catch up on what everyone had already known for years; however, over time I have learned to develop my thoughts and look at different aspects of and see a situation through different perspectives. At the start of freshman English, I had come in with little to no experience in writing essays and reports, let alone not even knowing how to spell the word essay! I have since grown to become a stronger writer than before which is just the beginning of what is to come. When I wrote my first essay I didn’t even know where to begin constructing it. But

I tend to struggle with going into enough detail and forgetting to add enough context. In my To Kill a Mockingbird essay I was struggling with leading into quotes and analyzing them. But at the end of my essay I had one very developed quote which really stood out, “‘Atticus was right,’ Towards the end of the book, Scout finally understands what Atticus meant in the beginning of the book when referring to Tom Robinson.” I am proud of this piece of my writing because I developed my thoughts well without any missing gaps. Another one of my successful quote analyses was my lead into a quote from the book Cyrano De Bergerac, “During his long tirade he compares them to dogs in someway that confuses Lebret…” These both demonstrated how I have learned to develop my thoughts on these quotes and being able to analyze the