Introduction
In this mastery portfolio, I want to demonstrate most if not all skills that I have learned throughout the first semester. Like the first portfolio, I am planning to talk about my writing techniques and demonstrate the developments I have made in using my voice, thinking critically, giving evidence, and finding connections using my mastery reader response and the first draft of it. In this reader response, I will be talking about the book “The Giver” and analyzing the theme in that book, mainly focusing on a quote that I found. In my opinion, using a quote will help me focus on one theme at a time so I don’t start talking about off-topic things. Now looking at my Mastery Reader Response, I notice a lot of differences between the first draft and this one. While writing this reader response, I mainly focused on my friends’ and teachers’ feedback on some of the previous reader responses. I can say that it was an effective way to improve my writing because looking at the topic from different perspectives really helped me think more critically. Another thing I focused on while rewriting my draft was my word choice. I changed some words to interpret the theme more understandable. Also, I edited my writing carefully trying not to make any repetitions so the reader response isn’t monotonous. Lastly, I worked on adding quotations and citing those. In conclusion, I tried to explain the theme as effectively as I can. In this mastery portfolio, I want to demonstrate most if not all skills that I have learned throughout the first semester. Like the first portfolio, I am planning to manifest my writing techniques and demonstrate the developments I have made in using my voice, thinking critically, giving evidence, and finding connections using my mastery reader response and the first draft of it. In this reader response, I will be talking about the book “The Giver” and analyzing the theme in that book, mainly focusing on a quote that I found. In my opinion, using a quote will help me to focus on one theme at a time so I don’t start talking about off-topic things. Now looking at my Mastery Reader Response, I notice a lot of differences between the first draft and this one. While writing this reader response, I mainly focused on my friends’ and teachers’ feedback on some of the previous reader responses. I can say that they helped me a lot since everyone has a different point of view and looking at the topic from different perspectives really helped me think more critically. Another thing I focused on while rewriting my draft was my word choice. I changed some words to interpret the theme more understandable. Also, I edited my writing carefully trying not to make any repetitions so the reader response isn’t monotonous. Lastly, I worked on adding quotations and citing those. In conclusion, I tried to explain the theme as effectively as I can.