Reading

I developed my reading skills further this year and I developed skills that I thought that I would never be good at. I never really understood poetry and this year helped me understand poetry and how to write poetry. I have used different tactics to analyze poems and find out why the author used different words to portray a point. Now that I know how to analyze different pieces of writing, my reading goes by a lot more smoothly. I never really liked reading and this class has made reading not a boring as I thought it was because now I know how to look for the message the author is portraying.

List of Books:
-Macbeth
-The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian
-Lord of the Flies
-Purple Hibiscus (Side Dish)
-The Old Man and the Sea (I filled out Reading Responses for this book)
-The Bean Trees
-Insurgent

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