I believe that my biggest improvement in ELA is being able to make and analyze poetry. Throughout the course of the poetry unit, I was exposed to new and different kinds of poetry. There were many types of poems that I've never seen before and we got to pick apart various pieces of poetry from famous poets such as Langston Hughes and Robert Frost. I think that the different poems that we saw as a class and those that we found ourselves gave us more experience in determining the meanings of certain poems. This unit sharpened our skills of being able to pick apart pieces of literature and think about their meanings and use of elements of humor and figurative language.
A very challenging part of the third quarter was writing poems and using the right topics to make them. Thinking of ideas for a task at hand can be hard compared to just remembering a certain event that can be used for that task. This was usually the case as we had to constantly use events, ideas, and topics for poetry. To overcome this, I used things that came to mind such as the running gag I have with my friends about me being a stalker and things that I thought a lot about. By using the jokes and ideas around me, I was able to write the poetry that I did.
