IB (writing) Lit Blogs: Luke White

I would define the American Dream as the belief that anyone can attain wealth and success who is willing to work hard for them.  While the idea of the American Dream might be superficial to others, it has always been a central part of my life.  I am a very goal-oriented person, and I take pride in setting goals for myself and working hard enough to achieve them.  I gave a graduation speech at my middle school on how it provided my classmates and I with the foundation to achieve our dreams. I try to achieve these goals I set for myself by identifying the most plausible path that will lead me to fulfillment.  For instance, I wanted to become a better writer; Solution: join IB.  In these ways, I feel that the key to success is the inability to be complacent with any aspect of your life, intellectually, socially, or physically.  I am a firm believer in the notion that the pathway to success is paved with a constant mentality of self-improvement, and I have beco...

Link to Recording:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EWqD_kQXYkLLib_VW7_V2dOk2WOd2OdD/view?usp=sharing  Self-Scoring A: 7.  I tried to show a "very good" understanding of the text by stressing how important this passage is within the text as a whole and trying to choose different references to other parts of the texts to support what was going on in the passage. B: 4.  I did reference some stylistic devices, like metaphors and the structure of the passage, but didn't use them to a great extent nor did I talk about their "effects on the reader." C: 3.  I tried to make my response as organized and as clear as possible by having a thesis, 3 "body paragraphs" or themes that were present in the passage, and then repeating my thesis.  I'm not positive if this came across thought. D: 4.  I thought my language was ok.  I said "um" a lot and had some pauses where I was trying t find...