Today, I used up the majority of the time to finish up on writing the comparison essay. With now having skimmed-through multiple essays by my friends, I had a general idea of how to finish my own. As I typed, I could find myself realizing what concept I most enjoy about books, and the aspects I liked of each method of reading. When I had summed up my thoughts, I checked my AWL, and to my surprise, it was practically a 7. When writing the academic book review essay, I genuinely had a hard time getting the level up to even a 6.5. With many tries, I was able to incorporate a myriad of words from the AWL list. Compared to this, for the comparison essay, I genuinely had just written as I would normally do, and my AWL was high on the first try. This made me realize that even though I might not notice it in my daily life, my level of grammar has excelled tremendously, and I am able to pick out those words without being conscious of it. I think that the frequent habit of writing blogs has improved my writing skills over the year, and hope that I am able to grow even more with this.
This semester, I have learned so many new things from the things Mr. Paterson has taught us. He taught all semester long how not to be scared, but to be confident in yourself, and how we can learn to become the best presenter we can be. He also introduced many of us to new useful apps, and how we can incorporate technology into our studies for the better. First, he taught us how important and useful technology is these days.At TGUISS, we first and second graders are not allowed to use our phones inside the school campus. Mr. Paterson was the first teacher and class to let us use the technology we have access to, and this let us experience and explore new things about technology that Japanese schools had been hiding for a long time. We finally got to organize everything based off of Google, and got to see how convenient everything around us was getting. Finally, he taught us how to become more confident with yourself. This is one of the reasons why he’s so passionate about giving a pr...
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