It's the first week of a new marking period! And I'm halfway through my senior year! Which gives me anxiety. Somehow I don't really think I'm ready for that. anyways, as it is the start of a new marking period, we are also starting a new project. This part is entitled "This I Believe" and it is a short speech/essay on a belief that I hold. This week, in addition to working on the poem of the week, we learned and discussed how to write a proper conversational piece and what elements make a good one. We also listened to quite a few examples from NPR and previous students.
I genuinely like this project and I actually had an idea straight from the start. I decided to write about how I believe that humans have a purpose because of our ability to learn. Sort of existential-ly, I know. This is a topic I write a lot about (just look at my creative writing from last year), so it was difficult dealing with my inability to write about this. Weird, right? When I'm actually asked to write about the stuff I believe in, I freeze up and I can't say anything the right way.
But the title of this blog is "The Spirit of Accomplishment" so you know that's not the end of this story. For the first time in a really, really looooong time, I actually let go of my inhibitions and started to write about this. I figured, since I've done that before with this topic, why not now? And guess what? The spirit of writing or my muse or whatever the heck you call it took over and I now have a (mostly) finished essay! That I like! And I never really like my essays! Granted, I did finish it five minutes into class, so I should stop procrastinating and just write. I think that's the lesson that I learned this week. Just write. Hopefully I can do that with formal essays as well!
Quote of the Week: "It's time for you to look inward and begin asking yourself the big questions: who are you? and what do you want?" - Uncle Iroh Avatar: The Last Airbender (I think this quote thing has devolved from book quotes to quotes I just like. Oh well.)
I genuinely like this project and I actually had an idea straight from the start. I decided to write about how I believe that humans have a purpose because of our ability to learn. Sort of existential-ly, I know. This is a topic I write a lot about (just look at my creative writing from last year), so it was difficult dealing with my inability to write about this. Weird, right? When I'm actually asked to write about the stuff I believe in, I freeze up and I can't say anything the right way.
But the title of this blog is "The Spirit of Accomplishment" so you know that's not the end of this story. For the first time in a really, really looooong time, I actually let go of my inhibitions and started to write about this. I figured, since I've done that before with this topic, why not now? And guess what? The spirit of writing or my muse or whatever the heck you call it took over and I now have a (mostly) finished essay! That I like! And I never really like my essays! Granted, I did finish it five minutes into class, so I should stop procrastinating and just write. I think that's the lesson that I learned this week. Just write. Hopefully I can do that with formal essays as well!
Quote of the Week: "It's time for you to look inward and begin asking yourself the big questions: who are you? and what do you want?" - Uncle Iroh Avatar: The Last Airbender (I think this quote thing has devolved from book quotes to quotes I just like. Oh well.)