Personal Narrative Analysis

For my first prompt, I chose the third one(Describe a moment in school last year when you felt really engaged. Why do you think that moment was such a positive one for you?). Last year, my language arts class was online so therefore, I never really felt very engaged in that classwork. So, if I had to pick one moment I felt very engaged in school, I would choose a project that i did in social studies last year. In that particular class, I had 3 of my closest friends. My teacher assigned us a project over the Civil War, and there were multiple ways to complete it. The one that my friends and I chose meant that we had to make a video telling all about it. I felt very engaged which was very abnormal because I do not normally like video projects. Anyways, the self-learning and doing the project with my friends made me feel really engaged with what I was learning. It was a positive moment for me because I realized that even though I usually learn best a certain way, other ways of learning can actually help me too and bring in a

If I could build a school, it would look similar to SHS and most likely have a similar layout. The way of the school would be different though, I would definitely change the lunchroom in the fact that the way to get your school lunch would be different and the lunchroom would be bigger and more open. The biggest thing I would change is that I would include more reading in classrooms and more library usage. Outside of being forced to go to the library, I rarely saw students in the library reading. I would increase student interest and have more times available to visit it. At the high school, there is much more reading allowed and more frequent usage of the library. I would also have silent reading in the classes so kids could read even more. Besides that, I would make minor changes because I love Smithville and the whole school