I remember getting the green sheet of paper that explained what our task was in seventh grade. "District Writing Assesment" it read at the top. Below that were the directions to write a response on the given story. I stared long and hard at those words along with the rest of my classmates. Although we all summarized the story without even separating the paragraphs it was our first 'benchmark.'
We wrote essays every week in 7th grade and barley ever got a chance to write a creative piece or poem which I learned is my favorite. I have to say that I do thank Mr. Graf for drilling us on essays because I have the directions implanted in my brain now. Eighth grade was a little different though, we got the write creative pieces and poems whenever we liked. I learned how to use semi colones in the right place and how to make a solid conclusion on an essay. I still find writing essays a pain; probably because I have wrote so many in the past. In addition to that I would say that essays are my weakness! My strengths are word choice and fantasizing/elaborating on the feelings that I have at the moment through a creative/descriptive piece.
I have become such a strong writer throughout 8th grade and I'm excited to keep it up through highschool.
