I'll miss the baked goods

So finally, my first English class in college has come to a close. Needless to say, Ms. Britenburg has been my favorite college English teacher by far. I mean all the rest of them fail in comparison to the great Erica Britenburg. Her transition from the elementary classroom to the college classroom was flawless. She incorporated many elementary elements such as baking baked goods for the class, which I might add should definitely be incorporated in the syllabus as a weekly event. As the actual curriculum goes, Ms. Britenburg did a great job of following the syllabus and covering every part of it. I learned a lot about rheotirc and the art of arguing a point. Getting the class to do debates got the class very involved with each other and the subject. Although our class was very unsocial there were a few who would always be the ones to speak up. I felt we could’ve improved class participation. Doing more group activites and getting to know each other better could’ve made the class experience better. I also believe that it could’ve helped us learn it a different and more effective way. I liked that the last project we did was in a group. I felt splitting up the work and getting to work with others made our argument a lot more effective. It gave us a chance to hear others ideas and contribute our ideas to theirs’.  Although a majority of us in the class will not be using the elements of this English class in our everyday life, Ms. Britenburg taught it in a way that we could apply it to our everyday life. Throught the process of our papers, she had many mini-deadlines for specific things for our paper which I believed helped the quality of the paper a lot. This way, a majority of us will not procrastinate and turn in a bad quality paper that we did the night before. I also liked that she gave us feedback on our first paper. This way I knew exactly what she wanted and I could make a more effective argument. Because she did not give us feedback on the second paper, (which was partially my fault) I felt our papers were a lot weaker. Her feedback influences the content and quality of our papers a lot. Continuing to give feedback to students’ papers will help a lot and improve  their writing skills.  She also is aware and adapts to the students’ needs. For example, she decreased the word limit of our first paper from 1500 words to 1000 words due to our class being engineer dominant. She also cancelled class the day before Fall Break in order to give us more time with our family but made us earn the day off in a creative way that applied to the curriculum. By arguing a good quality argument why we should get class cancelled we would be able to get class cancelled. This applies to the curriculum since we were studying rhetoric and the art of arguing a point. Ultimately I will take many things from the class b ut most importantly I will take away the fact that participation matters. Without participation you will not learn as effective as you would if you would participate. Overall, this was a great class and I hope Ms. Britenburg continues to make new sour patch kids and bake them baked goods as well even though they don’t deserve it because they’re never going to be nearly as cool as us.