Accomplished Essayist?

Before I came to high school, I had probably written about five essays. I didn't have a lot of experience and one thing I really struggled with was proper essay format. This year (thanks to the Gilman Method) I've improved greatly in this area. I had also never written an essay about a book and we've done a lot of that this year!
But I can still improve. I think that writing an original thesis is quite difficult and I continue to struggle with that. It's also hard to write intriguing body paragraphs that still relate but are not repeating the thesis.

Summer Reading?

Two books I'm looking forward to reading are:
Life of Pi by Yann Martel. It's about the son of an Indian zookeeper who is in a shipwreck on his way to North America and he ends up on a lifeboat with a tiger.
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult. A thirteen year-old girl, Anna sues her parents for the rights for her own body after refusing to give a kidney to her sister Kate, who suffers from acute promyelocytic leukemia.

Dreams

A lot of times, I'll have a really vivid dream and the next day I'll think that dream actually happened. This is the only time i really think about my dreams. I think I relate most to Mercutio because he thinks dreams don't have any significant meaning. Of course, I've had dreams that turned out in some way or another to be true but I would say that's just coincidental. I feel like throughout the book Romeo is just looking for places where his dreams happen to match reality.