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One of my greatest successes this year was discovering a larger selection of books to read from. In the past, I would only read either fiction or science fiction, while this year it was a requirement to read science fiction, nonfiction, medieval times, and Newbery award winning books. This was eye opening for me, and I am glad that I have more genres of books to choose from.

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The best book I read this year was "I Am Malala", a true story about an empowered girl fighting for their rights to go to school. This was a very inspiring book, as it explained how Malala's brutal attack only made her stronger. Also, this encouraged me to read more nonfiction books.

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This is a character analysis on Byron (Kenny's older brother)'s personality change throughout the novel, "The Watson's Go to Birmingham". This assignment taught me mainly how to write character analysis'.

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In this assignment, we wrote an obituary for an inanimate object which included 25 puns. It was fun, since we were able to come up with very good puns with classmates.

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After reading about the war in Sudan concerning two different people and perspectives, we wrote a poem about them. The two voice poem switched back and forth on perspectives, and also lines that applied to both people.

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The business letter was an assignment where we wrote to a company or college asking questions, compliments, or something they can work on. It taught me many skills that I will need to use in the future.

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Socratic Seminars take place so that everyone can share their opinions/ideas about a topic that we are given. The two topics that we had were: What was the biggest contribution A Christmas Carol made to the world, and how racism/discrimination was like in 1967 versus 2017. The Seminar was very much like a debate, so I had some experience with it since I take debate classes. The parts I liked most about this was when my classmates disagreed with each other so that we could have different ideas shared. Overall, the Socratic Seminar taught me a lot about other perspectives.

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This slide displays a song I chose that I believe sends a message to society, which is to except yourself. I liked this assignment because researching for it gave me an outlet to many good songs that send messages.