Autobiographical Narrative
This was the first really important assignment that we did this year. During this assignment, we were studying culture. What makes a culture, what makes culture important, what culture is, and what we wanted our team culture to be. So, in this assignment we were asked to write about a time, tradition, or event that made our individual culture what it is today. By writing this, we were forced to think about our own culture, and those thoughts and ideas were fresh when we had our class discussions. Our first draft started as a Prep Packet, where we completed a paragraph a day, then had those peer reviewed and edited. After that, we typed our revised second draft, and had that critiqued by Ms. Britt. Finally, we fixed our essays and turned in our third and final drafts. Writing this essay really helped me learn about my own personal culture, because, otherwise, I wouldn't have really thought about my culture or what it was.
Overall, I am very proud of this piece of writing because of the emotions I was able to convey in the writing, but more importantly, because of the things the writing made me learn about myself. If I hadn't written this, a lot of the stuff I found out about myself I still wouldn't know. I am very fond of this writing piece, but if I could revise something, it would be my grammar and punctuation. I feel like that could really use some improvement. I believe that the Habits of the Heart and Mind that I used the most were Compassion, Mindfulness, Perspective and Refinement. I believe I used Compassion and Mindfulness because this was a very emotional writing piece for me, and I really had to think about myself and my culture for it. I believe I used Perspective and Refinement because I had to understand where other people were coming from when they were critiquing my work, and because I went through many drafts while writing this Narrative.
Overall, I am very proud of this piece of writing because of the emotions I was able to convey in the writing, but more importantly, because of the things the writing made me learn about myself. If I hadn't written this, a lot of the stuff I found out about myself I still wouldn't know. I am very fond of this writing piece, but if I could revise something, it would be my grammar and punctuation. I feel like that could really use some improvement. I believe that the Habits of the Heart and Mind that I used the most were Compassion, Mindfulness, Perspective and Refinement. I believe I used Compassion and Mindfulness because this was a very emotional writing piece for me, and I really had to think about myself and my culture for it. I believe I used Perspective and Refinement because I had to understand where other people were coming from when they were critiquing my work, and because I went through many drafts while writing this Narrative.