Metacognitive Blog: And Then There Were None

Meta cognitive Blog: And Then There Were None

1) I specifically change the way I worded my essay and my grammar from my first draft to my final essay. The first way I worded my essay was hard to understand but had good content. After rereading my essay a million times I fixed the way I worded my essay and made it more understanding and fluently. I also had a ton of grammar errors but thoughts were easy to fix.
2) The from of support that helped me the most was the peer review checklist. I think this helped me the most because I had someone who I knew would give me good advise to my make my essay as best as it could be. I also think it helps more to have a peer edit it rather then an adult because they know what the teacher is looking for while as an adult might not. Overall, I think having a peer edit your paper is the best form of support.
3) This year to help improve my writing I can learn how to make my sentence structure better. I need this because I always have trouble with explaining things in great detail when they don't need to be. This would help it so my pieces of writing are more fluently because the of the better structure of my sentences.
4) I have room to grow in many places as a writer, but mainly on increasing my vocabulary and getting better at spelling. My goal this year is to improve on my vocabulary, by using a better substituted word for words that are used too often.

Written Essay

McGraw

Riley McGraw

Mrs. Belden

Honors English I

Period 2

September 16, 2014

                                  Things I Can’t Forget

I read the book Things I Can’t Forget by Miranda Kenneally. The theme of this book is life isn’t always black and white. In the beginning, Kate only goes by what the Bible says and wrongs and rights no in betweens. As the book progresses, Kate learns things that are not as clearly defined as she once thought. The first detail of how the book shows the theme is when Kate figures out her best friend had an abortion, which Kate thought was the worst decision ever. Kate is a very religious girl, who was taught choosing to have an abortion was never the answer, which made Kate look at her friends decision as anything but wrong. This supports the theme because through Kates experiences at camp, she starts to see more and understand in her friends choice for abortion. Since Kate went from seeing only wrong to more understanding, she sees and learns that life isn’t always black and white.

        Another example of the theme is when Kate thinks all boyfriends are bad. Kate has these thoughts because her best friend Emily’s boyfriend left her after finding out Emily was pregnant. However, during Kate’s time at camp, she finds a relationship with a boy and realizes not all boyfriends are bad like Emily’s was. This supports the theme because Kate, once again, learns there is another side to her first thoughts. She went from seeing only bad in having a boyfriend from her past knowledge, to having a relationship of her own, and realizing boy friends are not all bad. From Kate having her own relationship it helped her understand there is another side to having a boyfriend. Once again, Kate learns from this experience life isn’t just black and white.

        Lastly, the author shows the theme by showing how Kate thinks of people in the beginning. When Kate meets people in the beginning of the book she only sees the first impression side of them. She thinks if someone was rude, they couldn’t be anything else but rude. She only sees one side of people. This supports the theme because during her time at camp she got to know more about the people, with their stories, and their past they shared. This made Kate understand that there was another side to these people. She learns to not look at people just one way anymore. Kate then understands to look more openly at people and consider their past that maybe people don’t know about. This is yet another way Kate learns things are not just black and white.

        Throughout the book, life isn’t always black and white emerges. Kate slowly starts to understand the other side of life through her experiences.