Something I’m proud of is my Thanksgiving Piece because I was really descriptive in my writing. I learned that I used a lot of words over and over again. How I can continue to do my best work in the future is by using more juicy/descriptive words.

Something that was a bit challenging was my Parzival Essay but I’m still very proud of it. One reason I thought that was challenging was because I didn’t want to repeat my sentences in each paragraph. I learned how to back up my thesis statement and how to write a proper body paragraph. How I can continue to do my best work in the future is by doing the same thing I am going to do for my Thanksgiving Piece.

When we read Beowulf this quarter, we had to annotate. Here are the three things that we used to annotate: We would write a chapter summary on the first page of the chapter. We did this in case we needed to use that chapter for a project, if I read the chapter summary, I would know what happened. We would also underline important parts. If there was a new setting or character, that would be a good thing to underline. The last thing we would do it circle and define words. If there was a word we didn’t know, we would circle it and then look up the definition in the dictionary and write it in the margins.

I think that annotating is important because you can learn a lot more things than if you just read the book.

One thing I’m proud of is how I underlined a lot of important parts.

One thing I want to improve on is defining my words.

This was our last year at Ashokan and I am so sad! This year was very fun! Something that I did that was interesting was blacksmithing because I had never done anything like that before! Something that I learned was that a beaver house is called a beaver lodge. This year was different than last year because we did different activities. It’s sad that we aren’t going back next year but I can’t wait for Williamsburg!

Something I’m really proud of is my Grendel poster. There were eight groups of 2-3 students and we were all assigned characters from the book Beowulf. I am really proud of this project because I drew with great detail and paid attention to the internal and external characteristics.

One thing that I found challenging was the creative writing pieces because some of the prompts were really hard to relate to and that was hard for me to write about something that I can’t relate to.