Huckleberry Finn: Poem Analysis

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In this class I am hoping to get an A- as a final grade. The time when I came in and talked to you about my grade, I said that I will put a better effort in talking during class and really try hard on my bell ringer. I feel I have done pretty good with talking, like when I talked during our Huckleberry Finn discussion. We really have not had many times to talk since our conversation. I also feel I have really tried hard on the last couple bell ringers since we talked. I think on all of them I am just under two hundred words or I am around two hundred and thirty words. I have really tried hard on not talking to other people and typing the whole time. I think that my Legends of Camp project was pretty good. For the assignment, you had to pick three poems and think of two or three ways that people could …show more content…
I had three different poems and for all of them I had two or three ways that you could look at it. You then had to connect it to your life in someway. I feel I did this by telling a story of how we had to escape out of the hotel and it was like the great escape. I also did that for the other two pieces. We then had to do an overall takeaway from the Legends of Camp and I thought that mine was pretty good because in the paper I had everything that I needed. A 79% isn't that bad of a grade but I put a lot of effort into it and I felt like it was a 86% paper. In addition to this, I also feel that my second assessment grade was a little low, it was a 67%. I know that I did not talk that much but that is only part of the engagement grade. For the most part I was paying attention when we were going over it. I always had everything done, for example I would always read what was assigned to over the weekend, have it highlighted, and had it ready to discuss. Although not as much as some others, I did talk some. I think I really payed attention when other people were talking and

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