reflection

      This year took me by surprise and I am glad I took this course. I feel as if I was taught things that could help me in my life outside of school, whether it be writing a well developed essay or analyzing a picture. I've had to manage my time and face a change of teachers/ teaching styles, which has prepared me for future situations in school or outside of school. English seems like a redundant class to take for 10+ years, but this year I realized that I become more knowledgeable and skilled in all the areas of the course year after year. this year I feel as if my strength was writing, the synthesis essay was the easiest for me to write however I didn't enjoy the rhetorical analysis essay. I feel as if I was confident in the synthesis essay because there was something there to guide me and I had something to reference and keep me on topic and organized. also while I was in Mrs. Hagan's class, she took the synthesis binder very seriously and I feel as if that helped me become better with this essay as well. the rhetorical analysis on the other hand wasn't my favorite, I was in Mrs. Hagan's class when this was taught and I just felt as if I never had enough to write about or that I was very repetitive. now the part of English class I truly have never been a fan of, reading. I just have a hard time comprehending novels, especially ones that we are told to read. however the one book I seriously think Ive fully read cover to cover was The Things They Carried. for some reason that book struck my interest and I was able to read and finish it completely. I would even read ahead, I had never never never done that before. now on the other hand, I don't think I could list out all the other novels we have read this year because I didn't enjoy them. maybe it wasn't the novels that were so bad, but the lesson that followed (I was in Mrs. Hagan's for all the others). because I have to say you can make a short story or the novel we are reading more interesting and put it into a different perspective or explain it in a way we understand. i would like you to know that i was sad to leave Mrs Hagan's because she was such a sweet teacher and i enjoyed her class (sometimes) but i have really enjoyed your class, your lessons and teaching styles and glad i got to be apart of your class