Final Blog Post

I first entered this English class thinking that it would be the hardest thing that I had ever done. Turns out that it was actually a whole new type of English class that I had never had before. This class was unlike any of the English classes that I have had before. Most of my other English classes that I have taken have been all about reading long boring book and then writing long boring papers. In no English class have I ever had so much fun as I had in this one. Even though creating a web page with an essay attached was a lot of hard work, it was probably one of the coolest English projects that I have ever done. 

The thing that I will take away from this class that will help me the most is the analysis of rhetoric. In my previous English classes we had learned about things such as logos, pathos, and ethos but had never discussed any of them into debt. Or maybe this was the first class where I actually understood what they were due to the accompanying visuals that we would look at so often. Unlike how English classes taught me new things, this class used pictures which I haven’t discussed or used since my early years of elementary school. This class helped me not only analyze the boring words of a paper, but the pictures that accompanied them. I learned that almost everything we see and do during our normal lives can be analyzed when previously only books were analyzed. Now, when I look at advertisements, I messages instead of just images. I never really thought about how comics were there to leave messages instead of just entertain the reader. So, this class opened up my eyes and allowed me to see stuff that I had never seen before. 

Of course, just like in every English class, we had to write multiple papers. This was and will always be my least favorite part of any English class. But what we wrote about was actually fun. A paper on the Avengers movie poster- color me shocked. How could English end up being interesting? Then I wrote a paper on child slavery in India which opened my eyes to some of the things that happen outside of the USA. Finally, the paper for the multimedia project was actually easy because we described what we did for our multimedia project. These things, whether or not they had to be 3000 words, helped me to develop my writing skills and become a better writer. By making us do different parts of the paper at a time, you also helped the outcome of the paper and made it better than it would have been if I put it off until the end. 

In this class, there was really nothing at all that I wanted to pursue further. All of the things covered were covered well and I think that I learned a whole lot of information. If one thing had to be done again, I would like to have done more debates because those were super fun and interesting. Your class has been the most fun English class that I have taken and you shouldn’t change it one bit.