In the later half of my English course we were faced with multiple in class assessments in the form of paragraph writing. At the time of the first assessment it was worth more than the rest of our tests combined so needless to say the pressure was on. The objective was to deliver an academic paragraph analyzing the characteristics of a character present in a short story we’ve read in class. The short story was titled “Manhood” and it was written by John Wain. The overall narratives depicts a young boy lying to his father in fear of disappointing him and we we’re tasked with analyzing the traits of the young boy named Rob Willison. Having done some comprehension questions before hand I had a rough idea on what to write about, but I didn’t know how else to prepare so I was still kind of going into the assessment blind. Shockingly I ended up with the highest mark in my class (to my knowledge) which is only surprising since no one else received full marks. This later prepared me for the following assessments giving me confidence in my writing as well as ideas for pre-assessment preparations.