My Connotations In Charle's A Tale Of Two Cities

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As first quarter drew to an end my overall pieces of writing were beginning to officially improve. When the second quarter's end is around the corner, it is allowing me to reflect on all my pieces of work I have made this quarter and see all the growth I have made during the past few weeks. The writing pieces compared to last quarter have drastically changed and have improved dramatically. I have also noticed a significant change in the annotations I have made in the novel A Tale of Two Cities. The techniques and skills I have learned these two quarters will help me be able to pursue a successful finish to my high school career, my college career, and my actual career I choose to pursue in life.
To start off my annotations for the first one hundred pages of the current book we are reading A Tale of Two Cities by …show more content…

I would also look for any metaphors and similes that stood out and were easy for me to identify. Sadly, those were the only three things that I was majorly looking for in the novels and those three things were indeed the quotes that I would underline in the book. But after writing my first quarter reflection, it has allowed for me to take a look back and truly look at the work I was composing and to truly see what I could work on to enhance and make sure my learning progressed. In class I realized during our class discussions that I was needing to figure out a better way for me to figure out how to correctly annotate the text. Using what I had heard in class about the website Genius it has allowed for me to read the novel, but then helps me annotate more than what I would normally just annotate. My night schedule, when we have homework out of one of the novels we are reading, is to read the text and annotate what I think should be annotated, but then to compare my annotations to the website genius and add to my annotations if I feel it is necessary. Due to me using this

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