Post 6: My Sophomore Goals

6. Create goals for you writing next year. How will I reach these goals?

My goals for next year are to improve on my writing skills so I can at least be proud of my work. For example, I want to know all of the literary devices and dramatic/poetic terms. This way I will be able to be able to easily analyze poems. That may not be a great achievement, but I just want to understand the lines from plays like Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth. The way to achieve these goals is to study and memorize the terms. To others, it sounds really hard. But I can make Quizlet cards out of the terms and memorize them. I learned that using Quizlet is an effective way of learning words.

What I also want to do is to understand the significance of the book that I am reading. When I read the Lord of the Flies, I hardly understood the content, nor fully understood how the book was connected to human nature. My next goal is to understand a book well enough to say it loud. It seems like a hard goal, but I know how to reach it. What I will do is annotate more and re-read the lines I annotated. This way, I will be able to answer questions on tests and quizzes, and be able to talk more in group discussions. During my freshman year, I barely talked unless it was about relating topics to another topic. So I also want speaking more in class to be a goal for me. I hope will be able to reach these goals next year.