Reflection

My essay, Becoming a Christian, was the first essay of this nine weeks. I was suppose to write about a personal memoir and use three different types of brushstrokes. In the Nature Essay, I was suppose to agree or disagree with Emerson and Thoreau idea's of Transcendentalism. In the Becoming a Christian, it was the first essay i had written for Mrs. Turner's class. I wrote about my experience of letting Jesus into my heart. In the essay I had to use three different brushstrokes. Using the brushstrokes helped me a lot because it taught me how to make my writing more interesting and enjoyable to read. The Nature Essay, was the last essay I wrote for Mrs. Turner this nine weeks. I was suppose to use a nature experience and compare it to Transcendentalism. As I wrote this essay, the whole writing process became easier for me. In this writing experience I have learned how to use breath stokes, how to write a thesis statement, and how to write a well rounded essay.

I used a lot of being verbs in my Becoming a Christian essay. In the first sentence of the second paragraph, I revised my being verbs. I had to go back through my essay and eliminated as many being verbs as possible. I also had to go back and look for comma errors. In the Nature Essay, I didn't capitalized a lot of my "i's" so I had to go back through my essay and recapitalize them. I was told to talk more about Emerson and Thoreau in the introduction and conclusion. So in the intordcution I revised my first sentence and talked about the main idea of Transcendentalism. I talked about more ideas of Trancendentalism in the conclusion to connect the whole essay together.

I love to read Hannah's writing. She uses amazing brush strokes and she gives so much detail. The reader feels they are right there with them. Morgan used a lot of discriptions, in her Elevate essay. I struggle with being discripted and Morgan appealed to my senses so well. In Kacie's Nature Essay she grapped the readers attention from the start. Her introduction was really strong along with her whole essay.