This is my Crucible Comparative Essay. From this essay, I learned a lot. I learned how to make good connections. I learned this because I had to make connections in this essay because we were comparing and connecting time periods together. Surprisingly*, I also learned about the Salem Witch Trials and the McCarthy Era. Before this project, I didn’t even know who Joseph McCarthy was, I barely knew what the Salem Witch Trials were, and didn’t know that there were so many common themes between them. I also learned more about current events and connecting history to current events to gain knowledge. But I learned a lot about me as a writer. I learned that my descriptive language isn’t actually that descriptive and I have to work on it. Throughout the year, I’ve heard the phrase “quality, not quantity,” but I never really believed it until this project. I think that this will help me as a writer because I won’t go off-topic just to get more words on the page like I did on my humanities test.

*Not actually that surprising

After we read The Giver, we wrote an essay. I did well, and I spent a lot of time, and I think that I got the grade that I deserved because I spent a lot of time, work and effort on it.

To help us with our research papers, we had to do many note cards about our topic. I think that this was a great project, although it was hard to manage in the final week. I think that in the end, my final two note cards were the best, and Suzanne agreed because I got two 4’s. We were only supposed to put one note card in, but I wanted to put both in.

I would like to thank Suzanne because she was the one who had trust in me to get the 4’s. I would also like to thank Suzanne because she gave me advice to help me get a 4. Also, I would like to thank Suzanne because she put the 4 into jump rope.

So far, the making 13 colonies book has been fun. I have learned many interesting things that I don’t think that I would’ve learned otherwise. My work has also has been very good. It was a lot of fun, and I want to keep up what I have been doing. It really helped me to figure out how to find good evidence and how to analyze it. Here is the work:

I am very proud of my essay because I got very good grades because I took a lot of time to perfect it, and I was excited because it was a very good book, so it was fun to write.

Here are my grades:

Successfully constructs literary essay with well-supported thesis-3.5

Writes a formal paragraph using the TEEAC form-3.5

Analyzes textual evidence to support arguments-3.5

Writes with detail-3.5

Uses proper grammar and writing conventions-3.5