UNIT 1

Analysis For Myself

Strengths

Academic writing and Narrative writing
Analysing poems and narratives
CER

Weaknesses

Grammar
Analysing informative and persausive texts
Text analysing

Opportunities

I love writing, and sometimes I do it as a hobby
I also love reading texts, which motivates me when I do it in class

Threats

Procrastination
I usually get carried away, zone out in class
Get confused easily

Goals for this year

GOAL 1

To get 100% on all of my essay assigments and an overall GPA over 90%

GOAL 2

I want to improve my use of words, grammar and my text analysis

GOAL 3

I want to be more motivated when learning, and stop procastinating

UNIT 1 Essential Question: How does Society influence one's identity?

Born a Crime Novel Review

In all honesty, this is one of my favourite novels in school that I have read in the past years. This book truly shifted my view on everything, everyone and it even altared my view on myself; this book connected me in such a unique way. My life and background is quite similar to Trevor Noah - the protagonist of the story. I am colored, or mixed in general and because of that, I go through many consequences just like him that also change my view on people and cause me to question many things. At first, I truly did dislike myself for where I came from because of all the hate and mean things that people have said to me but after I read this novel, that really shifted most of the things I felt. It gave me a better understanding of my indentity and how people treat you - that YOU should put yourself first and you should be proud of who you are; race is an important part of you identity. Other than that, themes of resiliance and personal growth also influenced me throughout the book. By Trevor trying his best achieve the best version of himself by having courage and persevering through difficult times, I was able touse his little pieces and parts of change through his development and apply it to my own life.

How does Characterization drive themes? (BAC)

Characterization is the motives and traits of characters throughout their speech, looks, effects on others, thoughts and actions. And this can be shown through some themes that are droven throughout this novel, some ways can be how characters illuminate themes through their conflicts, through different arcs of growth and development, it's relationships between other characters and even reflecting themes throughout other social issues. For example, Trevor was able to show his growth and devlopment, and reflected themes through his relation to social issues: where Trevor was once insecure and he disliked the color of his skin, until he went through a variety of different experiences related to social issues such as racism, segration through apartheid; then, he slowly started feeling better about his identity as soon as he experienced many consequences in those times and developed a theme of resilience through that.

ESSAY WRITING (3)

Me, Myself and I

This was my first essay of the new year, a narrative that discussed my entire life's experiences, my characteristics, and helped me grasp what I had learned from them. I wrote about all of the small events that gradually formed my identity, including my struggles and accomplishments; aside from that, I told my life narrative and demonstrated my true, honest traits. I'm pleased that I received a full score, especially for something I worked hard on and where the major theme of the essay is about my life. To be honest, I think I performed okay, but to improve, I would definitely include more information on specific consequences and demonstrate how I learned from them.

Memoir

This was not my first time writing a memoir; I had written something quite similar to this in eighth grade and was able to use it as a reference. The assignment was to write about a specific event that affected your perspective permanently. I wrote about a breakup that actually devastated me and forever impacted my attitude and perspective, and I'm relieved to finally share such a horrific experience that I'd been keeping hidden for so long. Even better, I'm happy to receive another complete score. Although it was a comprehensive score, I'd like to improve it by including emotion and sensory data about how I felt at that exact time.

Literary Analysis

For this essay, I was assigned to write an analysis about a chracter from the novel "Born A Crime" by connecting your two chosen traits for them and themes from the novel. I chose Trevor with traits knowledgable and adaptive. Because this I honestly grew a special bond with this novel, it made the process much easier and more fun to write - especially with my favourite character from the novel. This essay truly gave me better understanding on not only this single character - but even the people around me and myself. To sum up, it was a way to reflect on my own actions and thoughts. Overrall, I lost a point for one of my unclear claims and though it made me sad, I will take that mistake as a way to improve in future essays and be more careful.

UNIT 1 Reflection

Overall, I genuinely thought that this Unit was awesome, and I really had fun. Almost everything I did this Unit was fun whether its reading the novel, or doing annotations or even writing essays but what I personally loved most was poem analysing. To me, poems show strong, meaningful lessons about society which especially, in this Unit where we talked about different people in the society, it felt pleasing looking more in-depth into these poems and seeing the true meaning. Contrary to that, I honestly didn't really dislike anything but I definetly wished that all the work I did especially annotations and essays were less time-consuming though it needed much thought and reasoning. Other than that, even though this Unit went smoothly, there was one thing I found challenging - it was that I wasn't able to fit all my ideas and thoughts within just one paragraph or an essay. Especially with a time limit, deadline and between my limits, I truly had the ability and I wanted to discuss much more than what I did. Other than that, to furthermore improve my work, I feel like if I put more time and thought through every single piece of work, I would've came up with better ideas, so hopefully in the next Unit, I'll be able to surpass these problems and do even better.

Contact me at parveen.jahangir.18228@wellspringsaigon.edu.vn

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