Here's an essay I wrote for an English class in 2019. We got to read one of my favorite books of all time, "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss, so it was super fun to do school analysis about a thing I enjoyed. In this essay, I discuss why Kvothe is a really great arcanist! Please excuse the essay format. Oh, also, this has spoilers for the Kingkiller Chronicles.

Another "Name of the Wind" essay featuring the characters of Patrick Rothfuss! The working title for this one was "My Essay on How Kvothe Was More Right Than We Know When He Says He's 'Never Been on the Best of Terms With God' and It's Fascinating". This essay was brought to you by my 2019 English class, so please excuse the essay format. It contains spoilers for The Kingkiller Chronicles!

For an English class in 2019, we read "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston, and I really enjoyed it. I think the prompt for this assignment was to make a different creative work reflecting the plot of the book, so I wrote a poem and may have gotten way too into explaining it. I'd recommend reading the book before reading this poem (mostly because it's a classic work of literature), but feel free to dive in without context, too! :)

Way back in 2016, I got a really cool project in geometry class: write a math story! There were three conditions: name-drop a bunch of math terms, solve some problems, and make the protagonist a "magical, mystical, geometric shape" (my teacher's words, not mine). I was far too excited about this project, so while a lot of kids wrote "Sphere goes to the library and looks up definitions for geometry homework", I ended up writing "Octahedron uses the power of math and archeology to fight through a dystopian world and save the energy sources of its dying society". I just reread this for the first time in years, and hoo boy, are you in for a treat!

"My friend Marie has convinced me to start writing in a diary. She says that everyone has a story to tell, and that I should start writing mine down." In 2017, my history class did a French Revolution diary project. It was pretty much exactly what it sounds like: write from the perspective of someone living through the French Revolution, mentioning specific dates and events along the way. As with all my creative writing projects, I took it very seriously and grew too attached to my characters, and Elisabeth Durand's diary is the result. I may have also taken the opportunity to project my fantasies of living in the 1700s while also having a very forward-thinking husband and living above a library. Enjoy!