Hey y’all! I’m back at it again with a new post for my recent SLC (Student Led Conference)! In this one, I am looking at some work that shows my growth as a learner; something that I have improved or worked really hard on. I have decided that my writing skills have gotten extremely better since the beginning of the year. Writing is something that I feel I have always had a natural ability for. But even though it comes easily, doesn’t mean I didn’t have room to improve.
When we first started writing essays this year, we began with an expository essay. When I handed it in, I thought it was a decent piece of writing, and when I got my mark back, an 85, I knew in my mind that I could improve.
As we wrote essay after essay, I could literally feel my writing skills expanding and getting better. The practice and feedback that I was receiving for pieces such as my synthesis and literary analysis essays, as well as our novel study writing prompts, were giving me room and confidence to take risks and step out of my comfort zone with my writing.
When it was announced that we would be writing one of our last essays before the English Exam, The narrative essay, I was prepared to try my hardest and do my best. For me, this essay was the easiest to write out of the billion essays that we wrote this year. Telling my story just came so naturally and I worked very hard to build up emotion and feeling into my words.
Even if there isn’t much left to work or improve on, I strive to work on and improve on it, and not only in my writing, but in all aspects of my learning. PLP has taught me this; that even when you can’t do any better, attempt it, work at it, and succeed at it.
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