I am addressing the standards for Expressive Writing, Expository and Research Writing, Reading, Language, and Speaking and Listening. Firstly I made a new learning plan, the most exciting addition being much more clarity because THERE ARE FINALLY STANDARDS FOR THE ENGLISH PORTFOLIO! For portfolio related stuff I did this quarter, I revised my analytic essay, The Universe is a Green Dragon, I wrote and performed a speech,I performed poetry I wrote, and I wrote a research paper about Oneness. For the Oneness paper I read several different books and watched a documentary series, peep my bibliography for them! There’s also a few new poems on my blog, as well as some paper ones. I have done the best I’ve ever done on my blog this quarter! My justification of this statement is that I documented more thoroughly than I ever have, I wrote about what I did essentially every week, and most of the time they were on time. ALSO SUPER EXCITINGLY I have found super challenging reading for myself! It is the reading for my Social Ecology class, and boy I will tell you all it has been a long time since my brain hurt from lack of reading comprehension! A little backstory, reading has always been my thing. Finding reading that challenges me, historically speaking, felt impossible. But now I’m doing it!