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A socratic seminar, named after the famous Greek philosopher, is a type of discussion frequently used in the classroom to practice a students' debate and logical thinking skills. In the seventh grade, we had two socratic seminars - one about civil rights when we read The Watsons, and another about Charles Dickens when we read A Christmas Carol. My engagement in the socratic seminars were moderately successful, since I participated in the discussion with clear statements that turned the direction of the conversation. however, I would have like to prepare more with evidence if I ever participate in one again.

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Although my year in Mrs. Harmonson's language arts class has been scattered with my achievements, I believe that my proudest success was having my character analysis for The Watsons Go to Birmingham being displayed to the entire class by Mrs. Harmonson. Although it was slightly embarrassing, I was still very pleased that Mrs. Harmonson thought my writing worthy of showing to the class.

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The best piece of writing I read this year was undoubtedly the classic Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. Although a very well-known and commonly read book, it was my very first time reading any of Dicken's works, and I immediately fell in love. The book opened up an entirely new world of literature for me.

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Music Sends A Message was a slideshow that we created when learning about the Civil Rights protest of the 1980s. We learned about the power of music, and chose a respective song, Marvin Gaye's "Inner CIty Blues" in my case, to create a slide about and present it to a small group.

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The most recent of our writing projects, our Object Obituary was assigned to teach us about puns, one of the literary devices that we learned about. I chose an especially difficult object, an obituary itself, to write about.

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One of our more exciting writing assignments of the year was the business letter, where we wrote an inquiry letter to a business of our choice, in hopes of receiving a letter back. I enjoyed this assignment, especially since the United States Postal Service, the company that I was writing too, wrote back, and sent a few souvenirs along with the letter.

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Our first important essay for seventh grade was The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1983 character analysis for the character Byron. I am especially proud of this project because Mrs. Harmonson used this as an example for the rest of the class.

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In the beginning of the year, we studied the genre of fantasy and science fiction, and read books of that genre. We were then tasked to create a bookmark that depicts science fiction and fantasy and contains a list of all book genres.

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Fantasy and Sci-Fi Bookmark

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Object Obituary