About Me

Hello and welcome to my blog! My name is Grace, and I am currently fifteen and in the 9th grade. I enjoy reading, drawing, and cheering on our sports teams at my high school. My favorite color is pink, and my favorite food is spaghetti. I have one dog named Lucy, who just turned two this April. My favorite types of writing are research and academic pieces. I do enjoy free writing and narratives; however, they are not necessarily my strengths. This is a portfolio created for an end of the year project in my freshman English class. In this portfolio, I reflect on my past assignments, talk about my strengths and weaknesses as a writer, discuss how I have grown as a reader and writer this year, and much more. I hope you enjoy this accumulation of my thoughts and compositions featured on this page!

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