My hits in English would most likely be my blog posts and my Lord of the Flies literary analysis. All three of these assignments were fun to write and work on, and they didn't cause me much trouble. I'm not saying that it didn't take any effort because it definitely did, but I'm saying that working hard on these was beneficial to me. I feel like I grew most as a writer while making my literary analysis of Lord of the Flies. This analysis was difficult for me because I had never written this type of essay before, but I learned so much about this style of paper and I can use it to my advantage in the future. This lead to me feeling very proud of my successful paper. My blog posts were really fun to write because it gave me a chance to express myself in somewhat short paragraphs every week. The only blog posts that I wasn't completely proud of were my reading responses.
My first miss would have to be my reading response blogs. I felt like it was hard to recall the information that I had read the past week and draw a central point about it. Sometimes I wouldn't understand what was happening in the book or I would stop reading in the middle of a scene. This caused some difficulties for me. Another one of my misses would be poems. I liked how I could easily express myself, but it didn't come as easily to me as I thought it would. As I would write my poems, I wouldn't know what to write about and I wouldn't know exactly how to word it in a poetic type of writing. I also feel like I didn't learn as much from poems as I did with other projects because I didn't exactly know the guidelines of what I was supposed to write.
I agree with you that writing a literary analysis made me grow as a writer. Writing poems were also difficult for me. I also knew what I wanted to write, but I just could not express it in a poetic style.
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