Back to School

After the very relaxing, stress-free Christmas break, going back to school was definitely not something I was looking forward to.  Although I was excited to see my friends, I was a little apprehensive about doing work again--I had gotten so used to doing nothing for two weeks!  In years past, we have always eased back into school after long breaks, but that was not the case this year.  When we returned to school, we jumped right back into things!  We immediately got to work on the Global Issues Project in World History, and our Literary Analysis in English.

We began our Literary Analysis last semester, but had to put it aside during exams.  Since we had already chosen a book, and written an outline and a thesis statement for the paper, all that was left to do was write the actual paper.  I had never written a paper like this before; I felt so lost and confused.  Thankfully, we familiarized ourselves with the characteristics of a literary analysis by going over them in class and creating a rubric.  That really helped a lot, because I now knew what I was trying to do.  Writing the analysis was tough at first, but after receiving help from my teacher and parents, I got on the right track.  I am hopeful that my paper will come together, and be a success.

Last semester for one of my outside reading books, I read "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett.  I never got a chance to finish it though because of exams, and other things that were consuming my time.  Last week, I read 150 minutes and finally finished the book!