Reflection

This past week I made plans to start organizing my prewriting form for the English in-class essay that I had to take on Wednesday, and also to finish up my content area project’s final revisions. I was able to follow these plans very well because I set aside all unimportant tasks and divided my complete attention on the tasks at hand. The reading strategies that I found to be extremely helpful were annotating, summarizing, and turning headings into summaries. The reading strategy that I was most successful in was annotating because it allowed me to find important parts in the two articles that I believed would be of use as supporting examples for both my essay and report.

This upcoming week will be a busy week as well. This week what I have coming up is my test on “The Things They Carried” and my out of class essay on “This I Believe, Part II”. Some adjustments that I need to make for this week are to take these works more seriously and not procrastinate until the very last minute before its due date. I need to start working early so that I can have enough time to work on each item separately for an equal amount of time without feeling overwhelmed by it all because I waited until the last minute. This week I will again have to use annotating as a main skill in order to fully grasp in detail what I have to read and focus on what parts of the story I feel might be on the test “The Things They Carried” and which points in “This I Believe, Part II” will make good supporting points to my main conclusion and thesis. I will strive to keep myself motivated and focused on the task at hand.