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Reading: Over the year I struggled with choosing correct anchor quotes. I could never pick the deepest ones. Which ever quote I thought was interesting, I would just pick it as an anchor quotes. I never knew what made up anchor quote. One day, I saw the chart that gave the components that made an anchor quotes. An anchor quote is made up of new aspirations or goals or if the characters emotions or personality is unveiled. Now every time I read a text I think if the quote gives any new information about the character. Finally I got how to use anchor quotes. This has helped me know what to use for my anchor quotes and I will use anchor quotes for every book I read. I know what information is the most important.

Writing: During this year, I had a problem with determining essential and non-essential information. I didn’t know what the rest of the sentences were supposed to be about after the main idea. Finally, there was lesson on main ideas. I learned that main ideas were the first sentence of the topic and the other sentences were support for the main idea. If the support didn’t relate to the main idea, it was non-essential and if it was related, it was essential. This helped me differentiate non essential and essential information. That’s when finally, I understood essential information. In all of my papers now can decide what information to use in my papers to make it more supportive and powerful. Life Lesson: Throughout the year, I had a problem with confidence in work. I never thought that my work was very good or I would always compare my work with other people. I would always think my work was worse. I have confidence now in my work and when I compare my work to other people, I see it as constructive criticism and try to make my work better from that experience. I now think that my work is actually good and it helps me have confidence in what I can do no matter what I do.