This Year; In a Nut Shell

As the school year winds down, you begin to reflect on everything that has happened. As my high school days are about to come to a close, I begin to do the same. There are many things to reflect on, from the football games, to homecomings, to those late nights on the basketball court. Mr. Neuburger has asked us to reflect on our assignments that we have completed thus far in our blogging experience.
My first genre that I’m going to discuss is our “I Am From poems.” The reason I chose to write on this topic first is because I personally enjoyed it the most. The “I Am From poem” is supposed to summarize ourselves. In my poem, I discussed God’s grace for his children here on earth, and the many wonderful things he does. I think this was a pretty good description of where I came from. I came from God’s saving grace. This genre might have been the one I worked at the most, and I felt it was a pretty well written piece. When a writer inputs there personal emotions with there writing, it usually makes for a beautifully written piece. I feel that I have done this in this piece of work. I personally feel that this was my best piece of the year.
My next piece was our one paragraph essay. On our one paragraph essay we were supposed to discuss whether or not the Jewish race should forgive the Nazi race. On this piece, we were limited to one paragraph, at least one hundred eighty words, and only nine sentences. I discussed my personal opinion on the question that was at hand. In my own opinion I believe that the Jewish people have to forgive the Nazi race in order to live a healthy life. If one person fills a life full of hatred and angered toward a certain race it would mentally just tear them apart. Also I believe this because the Bible says to do so. If God forgives men for every sin that they have committed, why as humans should we hang on to the sin? We should not! We should have short memory and move on. As a writer I feel that I write best when I am writing my own opinion, as I do in this piece. I feel that I produced a pretty good essay piece for this assignment. This was something that was challenging to me, therefore making me work harder and producing a better piece. I believe that this was my second best piece of the year.
On my third genre piece, I wrote a poem called “My Cure.” This poem it briefly discusses some things that may have gone through a Nazi’s mind during the Holocaust. This poem was not very challenging for me, but since I like to write poetry it made the assignment fairly fun for me. It was a pretty well written piece, but on the flip side could have been better as well. This was probably my third best piece of the year. My fourth piece, which was an acrostic poem. To be completely and totally honest, this was just a piece to round out my fourth genre that I needed. The poem’s based word was FORGIVE. The reason I chose the word was because when one hears the topic Holocaust, it sometimes raises the basic question weather or not the Jewish people should forgive the Nazi race. This was an alright written piece in which little effort by myself was put fourth. I do not enjoy acrostic pieces and probably will not write another in the future.
This brings me to my fifth final piece. Da da DUM!!!!! My research paper was my last piece of my five genres. My research stated many things about the Holocaust and was random in places. In this piece, I began talking about how important it truly is for one to understand not only the Nazi motivations but the Jewish resistance as well. Then the further you read in the paper the more I shift topic. Quickly, I shift over to topics dealing with the Wannsee Conference. Shortly after I discuss Hitler and the life he lived. This was most definitely my worst piece of the year; for many reasons do I believe this. When I first started writing this paper I had little to none knowledge over the topic, therefore losing all motivations to truly work hard to write the paper. Secondly, the assignment was given at the beginning of the year making it more challenging to write. Last, but not least, like most people I find it difficult to research a topic, and then write a paper on that specific topic. I feel that I produce my best paper, write my best work, when I get to express my opinion and write it down.
Overall this year has been all right. I have not learned as much as I wanted, but that is life. I have learned various ways of doing things, and different ways to find information on the web. I believe that my writing has matured over the course of the year, and will continue to improve as I continue to write. In all reality, I guess that as a writer, that’s exactly my goal; to become a better writer. I feel that I have become a better writer during this 2008-2009 school year.