The End

During this year in Mrs. Gilman's Honors English class ( best class and teacher ever) I feel like I have grown not only as a reader and a writer, but an intelligent part of society. I have a better understanding of literature and I am able to express this now. In my opinion the blogs were the best tool we used this year because we were able to express ourselves and respond to the things we liked and disliked. Another thing these blogs taught me is that if you forget to do them then they'll hurt your grade dramatically. 0/20... Ouch!! But on a good note I did do the majority of them and learned from them. And along with that lesson another lesson that I learned and wrote about in my New Years Resolution Blog was that I do some of my best writing at 11:00 PM on Saturdays, but it isn't always the ideal time to do it ( I guess procrastination will have to be on next year's resolution list because it's 11:00 PM now on the due date and guess who is doing their blog...). I'm sad to say that I succumbed to the laziness a little too much in terms of the blogs, but I started strong and hopefully with this blog I'll finish strong. Which leads to my ever so thought provoking quote...

"Hard work often pays off after time, but laziness always pays off now." -Anonymous

Looking back on some the great work, if I do say so myself ( and I do), I have written this year we can see that in the Blog Intro, the first blog I wrote, I said that, "I write as much as I can think of. Usually I can't think of much, so I compensate with long sentences that drag on (that is something I need to work on this year)." And based on that last sentence that has not changed... One more post that I used to try to better myself with at the beginning of this school year came back in November when I posted about critiquing a five part paragraph about To Kill A Mockingbird. I basically said that I should always be looking for something to add in my writing. I guess this worked out well because I scored 192/200 and 145/150 on my last two essays. With those scores I am pretty confident in saying my writing has improved.

Even though my hard work put into to every blog this year tapered off toward the end because of my forgetful nature I still can say that I made it through 9th grade English and to top it all off it was an honors level class. I'm patting myself on the shoulder for that one. Now I have been talking quite a lot about myself in this conclusion and not the real genius behind my success, Mrs. Gilman. Seriously, I could not have made it through this year without your knowledge, insight, and patience and I'm glad and proud to say I had you as a teacher. And I am also proud to say that I, Nicolas Smistad, completed a blog before 11:30!