What I Learned in My English Class Essay

What makes me unique is that I am not afraid of failure. When I set a goal I do not focus on whether I might or might not be successful; I concentrate on doing my best and putting all of my effort into the task. What separates me from others is the adversity I’ve been through, my diverse skills, leadership abilities, my contribution to the community, and my work ethic. My Hispanic heritage shaped my life because I of what my family has overcome. My grandparents from both of my parent’s sides of the

Last year was my first year of college. Freshmen year as a transition for me from High School to College, I don’t think I did well in adjusting to college life. I’m regretting lots thing I could have done, but I didn 't. I wish I could be like other ordinary students live in the dorm, they have more opportunities to involve school’s activity, and more chances to get to know more people. As a freshman in college, I was scared about failing my classes so I tried my best to work on every assignment

Nguyen 3 Tien Nguyen 908 English Mr. Lang 5/7/2015 Reflective Paper As I have enrolled in the English 908 class for almost 3 months, I learn numerous methods which can help me to write better for essays in the future. From the beginning of the class, I really hated writing essays due to I did not know how to start writing the introduction. Moreover, I did not know how to make all the sentences connect to others which make the essays unappealing to the readers. Another problem that prevents me from

Before I took my first college-level english course, I’d only had to do research for an essay on several occasions, and even then they weren’t even close to as long as the one I’ve written most recently. Up until now, all of my language arts classes were filled with things that I already knew, easy things that didn’t require me to change my writing style much, which likely explains why they were so boring. My approach to writing has changed throughout the process of taking an English 101 class. Among

I felt my heart drop when my 12th grade English teacher tell us we had to write a 4-7 page research paper complete with sources and correct MLA format. This may not seem like much, but after 3 years of English teachers that didn’t really teach me anything about writing papers, let alone research ones, I felt like I wasn’t going to be able to do this, I was going to fail. Since I was in the mentality that asking for a teachers’ help wasn’t going to get me anywhere, I stayed away from that. I was completely

When I went into Elementary school my English was very limited. I was put into a Bilingual class where I would be pulled out from my Grammar and Math class so that I could learn English. The class was like a basic online class. I learned how to say my name, age, and other introductory phrases. In school I was taught how to use words; I was not taught how to speak the English language. After school, I would watch Yugioh and Pokemon with my cousin and brother. My friends from school would use common

Before I embarked on taking English 121, writing was something that I thought I knew well. In high school I had to write a two page essay everyday Monday to Thursday and a one page essay on Friday. The essay topics could be on anything I wanted, but at the end of the school week I would have written a total of 9 pages and 36 pages in a month. Now they were not the most elaborate essays, but they had to have an introduction, body, conclusion, and be revised and edited before I turned it in. I am familiar

changed my life. When I was in 9th grade in High School, I was learning English, since I just had arrived 5 to 6 months before I start going to go to Bulkeley High School. When I started High School I did not know any English, everything was hard for me. I did not even know what “What’s up” meant. One day when I was in my algebra I class, one lady came in to the classroom and tell to the teacher if she could talk to us about something very important. Her name is Susana Ulloa at the beginning I had no

After experiencing English 408, I am confident in my ideologies as a future educator and am excited about utilizing them in future secondary English Language Arts classrooms. At the beginning of this course, I came to the realization that there are often times a cookie cutter model teacher that administrators often look for. Even the College of Education at Michigan State has an idea of what types of teachers they want to produce, not to say that it is a bad thing, simply a philosophy on teaching

passionate about or wanted to know more about. I think school is always about what other people want you to learn and is always about lessons and notes, that you don't get to explore your own mind and explore what you enjoy. I think as a society we always talk about things that we would like to know more about or things that people think needs to change, but not alot of people seem to take the time to do the research and take action to find more about it. I like this project because for once you get