Reflection Paper:

Jonathan Lima
Senior Cp. English 12
Mr. Gallagher

When I first stepped inside the English class I really didn’t expect a lot of writing assignments but it improved me a lot on my writing. In the past few years I didn’t have the capacity to write 5 page essays.

One of the shortest essays I did for homework was on the book “The Namesake” .We had to write a page on Gogol and his reaction on Chapter.3, “Some changes that start to happen on chapter.3 starts on page.55 in the middle of the first paragraph. Gogol starts to play with his food while his dad and he are eating dinner at the table. For the past few days Gogol start missing his mother eating with them at the table she’s always locked inside the bedroom because she’s pregnant “He keeps wishing, every evening, that she would emerge from the bedroom and sit between him and his father, filling the air with her sari and cardigan smell.”(p.55). after we did the home work the next morning in class we used it for a do now. We had to pick a quote and say why you picked the quote inside your group after everyone shared their quote we had to share with the class. It took me at least 20minutes to do this home work which it use to take me at least one hour to type a page like that on my junior year because we didn’t had a lot of essays to write in class or for home work.

My Second essay that I thought it was essay but hard at the same time was my “Internship-paper” because it had to be at least a paper but I had to specifically describe everything I was going to do during the past weeks. And I had to give good reason so they can approve my internship which I thought it was a little hard to write a paper and describe so many things. The good thing is that I actually did a good job on it but the only problem was that I didn’t make it to the internship because this year students couldn’t do it at home so my essay didn’t get approved “I’m going to be working with my mother and a little with my father he helps her around sometimes by organizing things around. In the beginning am going to start working at home because I don’t have a lot of experience yet to be doing what she does. Later when I graduate and finish my internship is going to be doing a lot of designing and learning how to manage a store. Then when I learn how to do those things and show my parents I have enough responsibility to live by myself basically with my brothers in Brazil I’ll move to Brazil and open a store.”

The hardest essay I did in my senior year was on “A Dolls House”. The reason why I thought it was the hardest is because I wasn’t use to write a lot like we had to, we had to write 5 page essay by two days. I had a lot of struggle when I got to the third paragraph but what helped me a lot was that we just had to write a argument paper on a character and I picked Nora. We had a video to watch which helped me a lot too because I had more things to talk about when I ran out of words. “The Character I feel sympathetic for is Nora because it’s not her fault she was acting like a child its pretty much the way she was raised with Helmer. For example parents sometimes raise their children like a kid and some treat their children different and grown up. When they grow up the act the way their parents raised them not always but most of the time. Helmer always treated Nora as a kid by calling her names like “squirrel”. And I feel bad for her cause she’s a mother and a grown women acting like one of her kids would act.” After I wrote this essay I was doing very well with my other ones that were assigned because I was getting use to it. My writing was improving a lot after in the beginning I hated but later on I noticed it was helping me finish my senior year and it’s going to be worth in college in the future. My reading good better too because we did a lot of reading in class and we had to revised a lot of work we did which we had a lot of essays to revise.

The biggest essay I did was my research paper and it was the one I liked the most because I got into it and I liked everything we had to do. The artist I did my research on was really interesting and I like his art work so my research on him got really deep. It took me 5 weeks to finish it and I had to work on it every day at least for 10minutes so I can stay on track. I learned a lot about Banksy and his art work he is basically a unknown artist and his artist cost millions of dollars. “Banksy was born in 1975 in Bristol, United Kingdom. He has come in from the cold street to the prosperous warmth of London galleries and auction house.”