Quarter One
Miss Brill essayAn analytical essay of Miss Brill
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A Jury of Her Peers essayAn analytical essay of a Jury of Her Peers
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Poetry analysis
Good bonesSPOTTTS and an analytical paragraph of the poem, "Good Bones"
Life is short, though I keep this from my children.
Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways, a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways I’ll keep from my children. The world is at least fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative estimate, though I keep this from my children. For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird. For every loved child, a child broken, bagged, sunk in a lake. Life is short and the world is at least half terrible, and for every kind stranger, there is one who would break you, though I keep this from my children. I am trying to sell them the world. Any decent realtor, walking you through a real shithole, chirps on about good bones: This place could be beautiful, right? You could make this place beautiful. |
Instructions on not giving upSPOTTTS and an analytical paragraph of the poem, "Instructions on not giving up"
More than the fuchsia funnels breaking out of the crabapple tree, more than the neighbor’s almost obscene display of cherry limbs shoving their cotton candy-colored blossoms to the slate sky of Spring rains, it’s the greening of the trees that really gets to me. When all the shock of white and taffy, the world’s baubles and trinkets, leave the pavement strewn with the confetti of aftermath, the leaves come. Patient, plodding, a green skin growing over whatever winter did to us, a return to the strange idea of continuous living despite the mess of us, the hurt, the empty. Fine then, I’ll take it, the tree seems to say, a new slick leaf unfurling like a fist to an open palm, I’ll take it all. |
Quarter two
Dialectical journal 1: Young Goodman Brown
A journal consisting of a summary, an analytical paragraph, and a creative writing based on the short story. "Young Goodman Brown"
I wrote a dialectical journal based on the short story, "Young Goodman Brown." In this writing work, it demonstrates how I am an innovative thinker because I have reflected on what I've read and performed a critically thinking towards hidden messages the author wants to convey. I have to analyse a literary device which the author uses in order to deliver a message to us, and create my own creative work. What I chose to create is a paragraph connecting the story with myself. I've realised that when people read a story, it's important to not only be entertained but also gain something.