Page 1 [Journal Series]

This is the beginning of my journal for my second attempt at Junior English. More on that story back here and another entry is already posted here. This is only the scanned image. I’ll no longer be attempting to transcribe these, but if you need my handwriting clarified, feel free to ask. My teacher’s remarks are in red.
If you’re just tuning in, This whole journal series started with my personal journal here.

This is where I’ll be making commentary on each page – because I just can’t keep my mouth shut. 🙂

This page isn’t too exciting. It was just the beginning after all and I hadn’t gotten too comfortable with it yet. Me? Express my thoughts? To someone else? heh. Yeah, so all these years later that remark from my teacher “Very Descriptive” puzzled me for the last day or so. That is, until I figured out that he was probably referring to the piece I was referring too, not to what I had written. Got it.

And I really apologize for that second entry. As much as I was glad that they had stopped shoving grammar down our throats after freshman year, I still hadn’t grasped it all. 🙂 I still haven’t, but I wasn’t ready to learn when they were ready to teach me. Oh well, that’s why I’m taking English 111 for 6 weeks this semester.

If you’re interested in the works these entries refer to, I’ll see about getting some links or at least give you references.

FallingDog

August 25, 2003

Your handwriting is more readable than your teacher’s!

anadenna

I loved the first entry when you wrote something about the descriptions being well written, as they should be since you are reading them in school, yet this hasn’t always been your experience with all the works, etc. You have a way at looking at things that fascinates me. And that isn’t in any way me trying to flatter you. So yeah, interesting.

wow. i think the teacher was talking about ur writing when he said “very descriptive.”

For someone who didn’t have a good grasp of grammar, you sure used that semi-colon correctly. I still sometimes get that wrong, and I’ve practically taken classes on that alone. ryn: I think you could be a great psychologist. I’m always impressed by your extremely logical analysis on things. Very important, and very useful.