Hannah's English Blog

During Honors English 10 this year, I have learned how to write a better thesis statement. As one of the most important aspects of a paper, it is important to learn how to relate your thesis with the topic and your support. It incorporates your knowledge of the paper and the understanding you have of the topic and helps me to gather all my ideas into one sentence. Another thing I have learned so far this year is grammar. Though it is a broad topic, the practice and explanations we do in class help me understand grammar much easier than last year. The grammar is also something that I can use in my writing to improve and correct it in order to write a better paper. Next, I learned new literary terms that helped to analyze poetry and writings better. These words are words that I had already heard of before, so it also helped me to become more knowledgable about literature and understand what people are talking about. The terms we studied can also be related to the novels we have read in c...

I found the movie version of Macbeth that we watched in class to be much more entertaining than the play itself. When reading from a screen (or book), its much harder to imagine what is happening around tThe characters as well as the actions they do and the setting. In the movie, they show the action that is happening at the time, making it more interesting and easier to understand. The language that Shakespeare uses is very confusing no matter what form you experience it in; watching it in a movie or reading it. However, the movie makes it much easier when you can see the setting, mood, and actions of the characters and play to gain more knowledge of the plot. The actors in the movie did an amazing job capturing the characteristics, mannerisms and feelings of the characters that they played. This made the movie feel more immersive and easier to connect to.