Blog Post: 5 Things I Learned

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 class so far this year, which builds a deeper understanding of them. I also learned how to write a more accurate theme statement about a novel that supports motifs, symbols and events that occur throughout the book. By incorporating all of these aspects, the theme statement can support the whole story, and be explained using examples from the text. Writing a better theme can also help me with writing my thesis statement for a paper. Finally, I learned how do dive deeper into quote analysis. In the Macbeth quote activity we did, it helped me improve my understanding of quotes and how they relate to the story as a whole. This is another thing that can help me write a paper and support my thoughts about a topic.