I've been in Honors English 10 for eight days now, and I can tell you that I have learned many things in those days. At the beginning of the school year, more specifically, on the first three days we learned more about our classmates and we learned about the class. We also learned how to use Google Docs and had a small assignment on how high school is in the modern world. I can't say that the first three days of school were extraneous, but they weren't as important as the first full week. On the first full week, we started to learn new vocabulary words, which were divulge, abet, dogmatic, insipid, and extraneous. I believe these words will come in hand when I am writing my essays. That brings me to the major idea of the week, my essay on To Kill a Mockingbird.
This past week was centered on picking a theme for our essay and how to create a perfect introduction paragraph to fit that theme. We had to pick between three themes: racism, childhood innocence, or rural poverty. The theme I chose was racism because it is still a major issue in today's world and I know more about it then I do about the other themes. We started off by learning how to create a hook sentence that will grab the readers attention, then we transitioned to the story background, and learned how to introduce the book and give examples from the book that relate to our theme. Finally, we learned how to create a thesis statement that flowed with the rest of the paragraph and stated what we were going to talk about. All of this is going to help me a lot when they day to write my essay comes and it is going to make it much easier for me. As I start to learn more on how to construct the perfect essay, it's starting to become easier for me to write not just essays, but many other types of writing, like blogging. That brings me to what we learned next, how to create and write a blog. At first I thought it was weird that we would be blogging for English class, but after starting to write this first blog, I realized why we are doing it. I am starting to see that the skills it takes to write a blog are similar to the skills it takes to write an essay. We aren't just blogging for our grade, we are blogging because it will help us become better writers and help us write much better essays. Blogging is just a more creative way to write and everybody needs some creativity in their life. I love being creative and that is why I am looking forward to this school year in English. I am also looking forward to learning new writing skills and vocabulary. That is the conclusion to my first but definitely not last blog, and I hope to become a better blogger as the school year progresses. That's all folks! 
