Rosie Ortega Ms. Lehmann English 1-3 12 March 2019 Back to the Beginning I woke up to flowers and get-well balloons. I tried to move, but there was a brace around my neck. My mom was sitting next to the hospital bed on the chair. She was bent over, elbows resting on her knees as if she had a bad headache. I blink a few times to clear my vision. My father walked through the door with my sister. “Eileen’s awake!” Elinna yelled as she jumped on the bed. “Be super careful with her,Elinna,” my mom said. “Do you think Eileen will ever do cheer again?” Elinna asked. “Well, why not?” I asked. “Honey, you broke your neck.You’ll have to keep that brace on,” my mom said, like she was afraid of what I might do. I was confused; all I remember is that I was at Jump Time with some of my cheer friends. My mom told me that I tried doing a backflip, and I landed directly on my neck and lost consciousness.I sat up straight and asked if I would be able to do cheer. I’ve done cheer basically my whole life. I even quit school to do online classes because I wanted to spend my life in the gym. “All of your friends are really worried about you, honey,” my dad said, sounding very concerned. “Can I have my phone and text them?” I asked. “How about we wait till tomorrow,” my mom said softly. “Eileen, we have to talk about something in particular... school,” she told me. “Hold on, you’re making me go to school! No absolutely not,” I say out loud. “Yes you are! We will not argue about this now. Let’s just settle down till we get you home,” my dad said madly.“You’ll have to wait until you get well before even thinking about going back to the gym,” he added. Later that day, we had another discussion. We started talking about school and how I would have to adapt to this upcoming change. I couldn’t do this alone. There would be those mean girls who would probably make fun of me for wearing a neck brace. After all this, I didn’t want to deal with going to school. Nobody would want to be friends with me. All my friends were from the gym and wouldn’t be able to go to high school with me. I’d have to go to school anyway. My friends all came over to my house and brought flowers and a card from the gym that everyone had signed. I honestly didn’t know what I would do without them. My dad came into my room and told me that we would have to go get school supplies. That was not something I was looking forward to. Later that week, we all went to target. We got some pencils, pens and notebooks. I also picked out a backpack. I still didn’t want to go. My mom game me packets that had tests to see where I was at in levels. They weren’t very hard, most of the questions were easy. I woke up the morning of my first day feeling very sick. I couldn’t get out of bed. I didn’t want to. I finally got out of bed to get dressed. I wasn’t excited to step foot into the school. I could already tell people were looking at me. I didn’t know what to do so I just looked forward and ignored all of them. I realized it wasn’t all that bad. In English, I made a new friend. Her name is Paola, she is very nice. She offered to walk me around and tell about the school.
Narrative Reflection Questions Answer all questions with complete, grammatically correct sentences. Be specific and thoroughly address each question.
List one thing you've learned from writing this paper that you can apply to other writing assignments. What will that look like? When I write other papers, I want to apply more detail and continue my story or assignment that continues my story for it to actually have a beginning.
Identify a specific revision you were asked to make and explain why (this can be at any stage of the writing process). How did you revise? What did you learn? I had to add a problem in my story, that meant that I basically had to story. I also had to continue adding onto my story to make it more of a narrative.
What are the conventions of a narrative and how did you meet those in this assignment? Conventions of a narrative using literary devices. I used a lot of dialogue into my narrative, that made my story very detailed about how my characters were feeling.
Given more time to work on this assignment, how would you improve it? I would make my story continue till my character has been in high school. I would have put more details about the school.
What is one thing you're proud of in this paper? I put as much detail as I could put into a two page story.