Dylan's English blog

  Prompt: Today we discussed why academic writing must reflect your own thinking and understanding rather than relying on artificial intelligence to generate your ideas. After learning about the expectations for authentic writing, reflect on why it is important for students to write essays in their own words Students need to write essays in their own words because it shows what they really think and demonstrates their writing skills. When I write my own ideas, I learn the topic better and improve my writing. If I let something else write it for me, for example AI, I would not really learn from the assignment. Writing in my own words shows my real thinking and helps me learn. For me, writing my own essays helps me practice explaining my ideas and become a stronger writer

Prompt: Today we focused on constructing a strong literary argument paragraph about  Wild  and whether discomfort is necessary for meaningful personal growth. After working through the claim-evidence-analysis structure, explain which part of the paragraph was most challenging for you and why. Do you find it more difficult to create an arguable claim or to move beyond summary in your analysis? The most challenging part for me was the analysis. It's hard to explain how the evidence connects to the claim instead of just summarizing what happened in the book. Sometimes I know the idea, but it is difficult to explain it clearly in writing. The hardest part is writing the analysis and explaining how the evidence supports the claim. I want to get better at explaining my ideas and not just repeating what happened in the story. Maybe over time, my analysis can become stronger

  Prompt:  Reflect on your experiences with essay writing. What aspects of writing essays do you find most engaging or challenging? Discuss your personal strengths as a writer as well as specific areas where you experience difficulty or would like to improve. Support your reflection with clear examples from your own writing experiences. I have written essays in school. I like sharing my ideas, and I am good at thinking of ideas for my essays. Sometimes I have trouble organizing my writing and adding more details. Essay writing lets me share my ideas, but organizing and adding details can be hard. I want to improve by organizing my ideas better and explaining them more clearly

  Prompt: After viewing your classmates’ digital posters and reading the feedback comments left on your work, what new ideas or perspectives did you gain about your poster? Reflect on how the feedback influenced the way you think about your creative choices and describe what you learned about the creative process while designing and presenting your poster. When I see my classmates’ posters and read their comments, I get new ideas to improve my poster. Their feedback help me see things I could change, like adding more details and clearer pictures. Feedback could give me ideas to improve my poster. Small changes can make it much better. I learn that feedback helps me see my work in a new way. It made me better at designing and presenting.

  Prompt: Reflect on the simile and metaphor worksheet. Which topic challenged you the most when creating your figurative language, and why? In your response, explain what made that topic difficult and how yo u worked through the challenge (or what you might do differently next time). The hardest topic for me was writing about my struggles. It was difficult to think of good comparisons, but I kept trying until I found ones that made sense. Writing about struggles was the most challenging. I had to think carefully to make good similes and metaphors. I learned that if I don’t give up, I can find better ideas. Next time, I will take more time to think before writing.

  Prompt:   Today you created similes and metaphors that reflect your struggles, growth, and resilience. In a well-developed paragraph, reflect on the process. What did you learn about yourself while writing your figurative language? Today I wrote similes and metaphors about my struggles and growth. It helped me see that I am better than I think. I wrote about my challenges using figurative language I learned that my struggles helped me understand myself better.