Journey Through History: My Journey Through History

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Journey through History When I was around the age of 8 or 9, I read lots of books and realized it was so easy to be an author of a book. At that point of my life, I was convinced that I was going to be an author when I grow up. Throughout my life in elementary and middle school, I was given simple writing assignments that didn’t take much thought or research, making me feel as if the writing was effortless. I realized that when I entered high school, I would be writing papers that consisted of 5 to 6 pages long or longer and this would be challenging for me because of my weakness in writing.
It wasn’t until I was in 9th grade, when I was asked to write a response paper to an excerpt from James Madison’s Federalists Paper No.10. In order to be considered as a student in the upcoming school year’s AP United States History …show more content…

Long essays were more challenging than DBQs, and I understood that towards the middle of the school year. DBQs weren’t as challenging as long essays because DBQs gave you vague information about the topic based on the documents that were given about the prompt. In a long essay, there is just a prompt and it requires the use of outside knowledge to support your claim as you write at least 4 or 5 paragraphs in about 45 minutes. My first long essay wasn’t the best, but I had to push through it. One thing I always remembered when I was writing any assignment for this history class was the comments I would get on previous assignments. Word choice, to vague, more detail, good analysis, etc. were comments I usually got on long essays. These comments are what allowed me to progress not only in the class but also as a writer. As the class proceeded, the remarks I received were more positive, with a few grammatical errors. Professor Butler wasn’t a teacher who discouraged students in their writing but encouraged them to only

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