Sophomore Year: 6 weeks Journals
ELA11-12.INV1. Analyze and evaluate the ideas and arguments presented in texts.
During my sophomore year in AGS, at the beginning of every six weeks, we had to write four journals: two for English, two for World History, one for Chemistry and one Self-Directed journal that could virtually be about anything. Of course, in the moment, writing so much on top of everything else that we had to do felt exhausting and was irritating to have to go through, but now that I'm a senior and have had to go through Junior year with two AP classes, and senior year with AP classes and everything that comes along with college, it really wasn't that bad. From it, I learned how to write better by the constant practice that we always seemed to have, and it also significantly helped with my grades. Because they counted for all of my core classes and I always got good grades on them, they helped me out more than I thought they would at the time.
For each, we were given a single prompt, or a few different options of prompts that we could choose from and I think I had the most fun writing the English and self-directed ones. The English ones were always really outside the box or an interesting topic, and with the self-directed ones, I could write things like poetry, which I love to do, so it was a good way to inspire me to write more poetry during my young life. Sophomore year was socially a bad year for me and I think a lot of my bottled up feelings were expressed in that poetry.
For each, we were given a single prompt, or a few different options of prompts that we could choose from and I think I had the most fun writing the English and self-directed ones. The English ones were always really outside the box or an interesting topic, and with the self-directed ones, I could write things like poetry, which I love to do, so it was a good way to inspire me to write more poetry during my young life. Sophomore year was socially a bad year for me and I think a lot of my bottled up feelings were expressed in that poetry.