Reflection letter

Hello reader and welcome to my portfolio this quarter has been amazing. So feel free to click around and get a feel for who a am and what ive been doing. As a student at Everett Community College I have grown tremendously over the last year. My name is Jena Gevaart and I am currently taking three classes at EVCC; Graphic 113 and film 100 along with this class, English 101. My goal in life right now is to get a degree in Photography and Graphic arts so I can move on to become either a photographer or a graphic designer. I say this a lot more than I should but I have never been the best at English but someone told me recently that it’s pretty much all in my head. During the quarter I have become increasingly more confident in my work I can feel myself improving with each assignment I do. I feel that by taking English 101 it has really opened my eyes and got me thinking in ways I never would have before. I feel much more connected to my life and the people around me.

In this English class we discussed a variety of different topics some of the themes we discussed this quarter were identity, Community, and tradition. I really enjoyed learning about identity I’ve always been interested in what makes you, you and how people see themselves. I’ve learned that people’s identity can be what ever they choose no matter what they look like. There are a lot of factors that go into what makes a person, a lot of people go of what you look like or what you do. It’s the decisions people make are what gives everyone their own personal identity. Community was interesting to learn about as well, we learned about what makes a community a community. How it is a group of people who all believe in the same thing or do the same things or are alike in some sort of way. Learning about tradition was my favorite because it made it so I had to think into the past and remember things from my childhood. I liked making connections and giving examples of my own life for example we had to talk about traditions with food and I got to share stories about my family’s traditions. By learning about theses themes I feel that my eyes have really been opened to how diverse this world really is. Before I felt that my thoughts were very narrow and now I feel that I have a whole new look on the world. This class has really opened my eyes and helped me channel my thinking and creating new questions that I like to search for the answers.


I choose for my critical thinking to use my first timed write because I felt it best described my ability to show critical thinking. We had to write about a movie we watched in the class and I felt like I did well at analyzing. My second piece for the revision was my identity paper I did okay on this and I felt that I could improve upon my work. It was a good start but I feel that I could add more to my assignment. For audience I choose blog three because it was an easy thing for people to relate to because I wrote about traditions with food. Almost everyone could relate to this topic so I felt it was good to use for audience. For my writers choice I choose to use my paper about tradition because it was my favorite paper to write and I feel very confident in the assignment.