June
2007
Student Post Comments0
I read Nichole’s post from ESCHS, NYC on Youth Voices. I was impressed with the level of emotion in her writing. Her image and the quotes she used showed an unbelievable understanding of the power of words. The way she used her quotes to prompt the rest of her writing was insightful. Since I am struggling with sentence structure in my own writing, I noticed how she has almost mastered this in her writing. I had a hard time seeing her as a high school student. Her words showed a high level of maturity.
When I read the comments to Nichole, I was able to see high school writers. I felt that the first two comments were writers who could respond to Nichole on her writing level. Some of the others wanted to comment, but they were too immature, as writers, to accomplish what they wanted to say. I felt that they were worried about what others would think. I don’t think that the comments were helpful for Nichole as a writer and only a little helpful to her as a person. I think that these responses would be hard for Nichole to use; however, she seems to be beyond the high school level so it may not matter to her.
