Post 5: Areas to work on

5. What areas do you still need to work on? Why are these areas important?

The areas that I still need to work on involve analyzing poems and laying out an outline for an essay. These areas are important because without an outline, it's hard to know where the information goes. For example, before I wrote an outline on the Scientific Revolution, I just wrote out the essay. I learned that an outline was required, and I had to redo the entire thing because the information was scrambled. I couldn't even tell what I was writing about anymore.

It's also important because when poems are analyzed, the reader can then understand the approach the poet was going for, or what the poet was trying to say when writing the poem. For example, Macbeth, a play written by William Shakespeare, includes embedded slant and end rhyme. I barely knew how to paraphrase them, much less understand what the actors were saying. I learned how to somewhat understand the lines, but I feel as if I still need to work reading the lines entirely. I will try to ask my future English teacher how to read poems, as well as how to make my own outline without asking for help.