When I entered my first college English class, I was
a little hesitant at first. I never was any good at English in high school and
did not enjoy the subject from my personal experiences. I thought we would be
doing the same thing that I did in high school. These tasks included reading “meaningful”
works of literature I had never heard of and then have to do an educated discussion
on the material. Fortunately for me, this was not the case for your class. Your
class differed greatly from what I was used to in high school. It felt like the
class was more open and relaxed than what I was used to. You also tried to
connect with us on a more personal level than any of my teachers ever did in
high school. I also appreciate the large amount of time we had for projects and
how lenient you were if we asked for more time to complete them. This allowed me
to have one less stressful class this semester. Also, the fact that there was
no exam EVER made me a very happy camper.
The
most obvious thing I learned from this class was rhetorical analysis of just
about everything. You made analyze just about everything for a good amount of
the semester. Although I cannot remember the three types of rhetoric, I can now
better analyze images and advertisements rather than only describing what they
look like to people. Rhetoric is a nice skill but I think the most important
thing I learned from this class was how to be a better writer. I did not enjoy
having to write multiple essays one having to be no shorted than 3000 words,
but I believe this made me become a better writer. I learned how to properly
research a topic with scholarly sources and not Wikipedia to give my argument
powerful and supported. I also learned proper organization in writing a paper. I
liked how you gave us different due dates that led up to the final draft of our
paper. Having to do an outline, rough draft, and works cited beforehand helped
me personally organize my paper effectively without having to stress out on
what to do next for my paper.
I did
enjoy your English class. It was nice to go to your class in the middle of the
day and just chill. You had a lot of fun activities such as the two debates on
vampires v. zombies and Dwight Schrute v. Barney Stinson. However, I am a math
and sciences kind of guy and still do not enjoy the English subject. It is just a
relationship that will never turn out alright. If I could change anything from
the class it would only be a couple things. First, I would change the length of
each essay making them a couple hundred words shorter. I would find myself
fishing for more things to write about and my paper would suffer for it.
Second, I would implement using your quizzes more often. I believe this would
help the students retain more information and actually read what was assigned.
Finally, I would downgrade the number of classroom days by one. This could free
up your students for a day of free time to work individually on assignments or
just give them a break. I felt like in some days of class we were sitting
around not knowing what to do.
All in all, I think I had a great experience for my first
semester of college and you did a great job teaching. Keep on keepin on!
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