Reflection Blog

Logan Goldberg Final Blog February 20, 2014

            Over the course of trimester two I have read the three books in the hunger games series, by Suzanne Collins. I used good reads in many ways. I used it to see what other people were reading, and to add to my list off books I wanted to read. I also recently went on and decided to read Divergent next. Over the course of the trimester, in blogging I have struggled with writing detail. Sometimes I wouldn’t write enough, or wouldn’t use textual evidence/ quotes, and other times my blog might not have related to my book in some ways. Throughout the course of the trimester, I did however improve on these problems by adding details in my blog. I did this by adding quotes and textual evidence to my blogs, and therefore my blogs were effectively more relevant to my book, and proved what I was trying to convey more. A strength I had throughout blogging in this trimester was that I had answered many different blog questions throughout the eight blogs. I think this would be a great strength for me, because it keeps blog readers interested. This is because readers don’t want to read the same things over and over again, it would get very boring after a while.

           

            I think my writing has improved in many ways over the course of the trimester, in many ways. As I said before I have recently started to add a lot more detail into my writing. I have done this by adding details and a lot of textual evidence. This makes me relate back to the book in my writing, causing me to have a well written blog post. This shows from my first blog to my sixth. One excerpt from my first blog is “Think of competing in the battle of the death, and then having to battle again against the best of the best. Scary right. This is Catching Fire the second book of the Hunger Games series. This past weekend I watched the movie, and I loved it. After the movie I instantly wanted to start reading the book. I loved the first book and I am looking forward to reading the second.” And then a quote from my sixth blog would be “One of the very important line in the first chapter would be "I back away from the bakery and bump into something, lose my balance, and find myself sitting on a hunk of sun heated metal, I puzzle over what it might have been, then remember Tread's recent renovations of the square. Stocks, Whipping posts, and this, the remains of the Gallows" I believe this is a very important quote to the first chapter of the book because it gives a little background information of the second book.” These are great quotes to show my growth in my writing because it shows how in the very first blog I didn’t use quotes and talk about the book much. It also shows how I used quotes to relate to the book, which was a very good improvement from the first blog. Another good quote from that blog would be “I think this because it shows how district 12 was bombed and left in ruins, because she couldn’t tell what she tripped over at first. It also shows haw the government was taking more control before the uprising. The Stocks, Whipping posts and the Gallows, show this. It also shows this happened a little while back, because it says the Gallows was sun heated. I believe this is a very important line in the book because it sets the time frame for the whole book, and tells us some very important details about the last book, Catching Fire.” This also shows my improvement in many ways. I liked blogging and I hope to continue reading and posting on my blog.