TOPIC SENTENCE!!!CONCRETE DETAIL!!!
COMMENTARY!!!
ANOTHER COMMENTARY!!!
TRANSITION!!!
CONCRETE DETAIL!!!
COMMENTARY!!!
ANOTHER COMMENTARY!!!
CONCLUDING SENTENCE!!!
Can't these teachers just let me be? T_T I don't want to live in fear, worrying that I accidentally put a commentary before a concrete detail! I don't want to get a bad grade for connecting my ideas too much! I don't want my essay to sound boring and robotic! Are they crazy? Why the hell can't I put my thesis in the middle of the introductory paragraph and transition from one paragraph the the next in the sly way that I do? Why must the first essay of the year for the honors 10th grade English class be so nail-scraping-against a chalkboard annoying and frustrating?
In other classes I just ignored what the teacher said and it ended up being, from the common sense of how to prove my point, in the format they asked for, it not more complicated and intricate, using concepts of how to use quotes and introduce new ideas in ways they have not taught us yet. It's no big secret...i just start writing. And with trying to incorperate and make understanding of everylast one of my half baked ideas, I end up with something I am really proud of.
But he doesn't want this. He wants an essay completely format. He doesn't care if everyone has the same thesis and the same support. Just wants to make sure that everyone has it this way for the first essay. Then apparently he will work us from that, up to where quite a few of us already were, except with more understanding of how we were doing it. I respect why he is doing it, and it makes complete sense. I just think that it is going to kill my creativity. Not to even mention my flow of ideas (refer to previous post).
I can't work forwards in an essay! That's perposterous! Figure a theme and thesis to start? What? How is that even possible? I want to cram every last one of my ideas into this essay as I can about this book to make me appear as genius as possible! Therefore I need to figure the theme that ties into the most of my half baked ideas as possible, but still yet answering the prompt.
This is the solution: I just need to make sure that I either write the crappiest essay I ever have and then throw it on next time with the greatest peice of work he has ever seen to show him the format was distracting me, or, and this is the better option of the two, still yet find some way to make my essay original and amazing. But then he will think that the format is working for me -_-
It's not so much the format itself...I loooove the format! I just hate this mindset. It's the worst mindset I could have. "Ok now I need anther commentary. hmmm, the teacher said to start with 'This shows that...' So, let's see here. This shows that the character is being mean." (If you couldn't tell, that quote was said, in my mind and to my regret, was in a voice that screams mental handicap.
1 comment:
I know, I know. I was an English major and trust me, it gets way better at university. HOWEVER, they need to make sure you have the whole structure thing down solid before they loosen the reins on your creative freedom a bit. The challenge for you is to work within their framework, yet still do your own essay. That's how I got through it anyway.
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