Refer to the book brings colossal to me, certainly will be "40 short stories". One the one hand it was the first reading book I get touch with, increased my interest reading; on the other hand it created more chance for me to fathom different work style from a lot famous writer.

Double entry note was the most meaningful assignment for me this year. It advanced my cognition for taking notes, let me used more rational way to read a book.

The effect which Poetry Out Lound and "Where I Am From" was how to through my work or Poetry to express who I truly am, what emotion and what kind of person I want add in.

5 paragraph essay is the work more inclined to college, comprehensively strengthen my writing ability. It was a good chance to use the knowledge I gained in the class.

I think through the accumulation and reading I have during this year, I become a better writer and English 11. Not only on the select subjects which I will use, but also learned how to let reader through my essay have more connection or relate to my emotion .

Grammar has been my long time weakness in this year, that is the thing I still need to work on. Also speak up in the class, I hope I can bring more to my class next year.

Though all the literature we have read this year, it is not that hard to figuring out the main purpose or common for those article; like Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis, Gregor Samsa was just a normal traveling salesman, in company his boss never accepts excuses or explanations from any of his employees no matter how hard-working they are, in the home he could not tell what's his real feeling; or such as "Twilight Zone-Five Characters in Search of an Exit" five improbable entities stuck together into a pit of darkness. No logic, no reason, no explanation, those thing represent the dark and unfair adult world which we are about to enter.

From my point of view, we used whole year to learn all the injustice and evil side in our future, I should learn how to deal with these adverse effects, how to find my way of true value in my life.

In ZeFrank's video "The Teen Brain", he believes that the brain of young people is not develop completed, when the time we meet the critical situation our brain will comes up the idea or the reacting which are reckless and carefree, it may cause bad influnce for teenager's life. On the on hand teenager's brain always give emotional reaction, their barin usually won't give time for analysis the thing they met and various decision, on the other hand as what Emotionnal Intelligence 2.0 talking about, it is necessarily build self-awerness and social-management, it will offer us a tremendous help no matter for teenager or adults. IQ makes people have rich knowledge, but EQ Is the understanding, the ability to control and regulate our emotions. emotional intelligence reflects the different level of emotional quality . EQ for people's success plays a more important role than IQ.

In Overcoat there're two elements around the whole story, one is the people's desire on the thng they don't have, another is that people can not get over what's others point view of them, those two major elements lead to the reason why he urgenly want got the overcoat, after Akaky died, he robal all overcoats in St. Petersburg.
For Gogol critincizing,people always have prejudices to the thing or others which have different situation; like Akaky being laughted by colleagues because he wore a tattered clothes, they called it "Cap".
In general, the overcoat, it just a clothe help people withstand cold, however, in Gogol's "Overcoat" it being used by satirzed human's desire, they don't want looks diferents with others, they're afraid be different clan.
Akaky's ghost haunt the people of St. Petersburg because he lost his overcoat here, the cause and effet stay in this place.

I am from immemorial Terra-Cotta Warriors，
And great Qin dynast

Of course in "No Exit" that hell is other people. In this story characters like a triangle, they all bound by another person; Cradeau wants Inez to point out what's his mistake, Estelle wants having sex with Cradeau and Inez fall in love with Estelle. That's the reason why they are had too many argument, this room makes dispute getting biger and biger，so Cradeau saids "Hell is other people". The has no mirror, the only one way to see waht's themselves looks like was hear description from others. However, they escape to tell truths to other people so the hell could also be themselves.

Through this convercation, I found that he is an arrogant man and that is the one of the factors of his death. Arrogant people often do not have a good result，because arrogant people always don't know how to ask for help.

The Montressor family coat of arms encourage him to revenge Fortunado, because that is the symbol of "If someone the member of Montressor, he must get punishment." Also that is the cause of story, that is why his not feeling guilty at all.