English Class Reflection

First off, I want to thank you for making this year and my first honors English experience fun for me! Though this year was challenging for me, it has also been extremely knowledgeable. From my freshman year to sophomore year, I can definitely notice the difference in my writing and reading. I can definitely see how much I have grown, and I am sure you could see these improvements too. Last year, I was in regular English and jumping from regular to honors was a huge step for me, which at first, I was not fully comfortable with. But as I got to know this year’s class and of course you, Mrs. Walker, I felt like I belonged here, in an honors English class. Throughout this year, I have learnt and improved at my skills of properly annotating texts, writing a proper claim, analyzing author’s style, and also analyzing rhetorical situations.

Before I enrolled in English 101 my ability to write specific types of papers (argumentative, rhetoric, narrative, etc) were mediocre at best. However, from reading The Norton Field Guide to Writing and They Say, I Say I gained a deeper understanding on how to better argue a point or write a narrative with a clear theme. Moreover, from my time of being in English 101 I have improved tremendously in the given areas: Rhetoric, Technology, Research, and Collaboration.

There was a 17-page long form book analysis assigned in my AP English class a couple of years back and we were given about two months of time to read a 400-500 page book from some approved list and turn in the paper. One of those assignments where the teacher drills the fact into your brain that this is not an assignment to start at the last minute. Me, being the studious person I am, didn't even choose a book to start reading until the final week before the project was due. There were two nights left before I had to turn the report when I had finally sat down and started reading the book. Read the first half of the book the first night, finished the book after classes were done the day before the report was due. At this point, it was maybe

During the last semester of my senior year of high school, I enrolled in Tupelo High School's Advanced Placement Dual Credit English IV course. Ultimately, my time in Advanced English provided me with many challenges, but also helped me recognize high points as well as my strengths. These experiences helped mold me into the writer I am today.

Looking back at my previous essays I wrote for this course makes me to understand the progress I have made during this semester. This course helped to develop my comprehensive writing ability. However most importantly through this course, I experienced different kinds of essay writing and is able to advance my critical thinking skills. It is clear to me though I have to work more on my grammar and need to give more time to develop my MLA format reference writing. Throughout this semester I saw myself developing as a good writer. Now I can easily identify a problem, organize my thoughts, outline my paper and write it. I am also able to easily find errors and apply the proper correction efficiently.

Engineers define a successful task by measure the efficiency of the final product when the process is done. The same theory apply to me when I step into English 150 class for Fall semester, 2014. Coming from Mechanical Engineering background, I tend to think like an engineering because this is what I need to prepare for my future job. I like to measure the efficiency of learning English by look at the effort that I put on this subject and make it worth measure what I have improve for this semester. There are several important improvement that I can made through semester which are benefiting skills as a student, spotting my weakness, and finding way decrease my weakness.

In high school, I wrote a lot of research papers and it helped me in college and later on in life. The English 12 class I took in high school there was a lot of writing in it. It improved my writing skills and got better at writing since I didn’t speak much English when I started high school. In reading, I read a lot of books in high school which improved my reading skills. My teacher helped me alot with reading and writing she was a big support for me. Now I can read and write good but sometime I get stuck but overall I improved myself a lot. This summer I took english 78b which helped me alot with my reading skills. I read two books in that class and at the end took a test on it. I learned a lot of new words and I will keep learning. I enjoy

My entire time while in English 101, I had learned a variety of things about the subject and myself. I learned I had many strengths and weakness, also likes and dislikes of the course overall. For me the course overall was very interesting and influencing. I learned that I can write papers with many different topics, and they will come out good if and only I follow all directions given to me. I love to follow directions so that for me wasn’t such a big issue. A weakness I had was, not knowing how to properly find a source and cite it correctly. I always had a hard time looking for the publisher and the date any document was published. With having this weakness, I learned that I should always look everywhere for information on a document, most

I am attempting English 101 for the 4th time this semester. My previous attempts at this course my education came after the needs of my social life. I simple focused on friends instead of what was the most important: my education. I have now decided my education should be my first priority. This semester I am focused on meeting this challenge, but with some help of course. I have expectations of my teacher, classmates, and most of all myself.

In Mrs.Yu’s class I have acquired multiple tips and tricks to write more appealing essays. To make our essays better, our class has learn daily words to improve our vocabulary skills. In addition to learning new words, our class would create a sentence using the word helps us understand the word better to allow use to use them in our own sentences. Some examples of these words include, irresolute, consecrate, escarpment, monolithic, incandescent, and much more. Although our class spend numerous hours perfecting our essays, Mrs.Yu had us research and discover interesting facts about William Shakespeare. To begin our Shakespeare research, I wrote a biography on Shakespeare with the help of my index cards packed with useful information. Soon

The information covered this week was interesting and useful for me as an educator. The understanding of language development is highly critical for developing English among learners without any doubt. As an educator it is extremely important to be informed and familiar with the extensive process of learning proficient English for non-native students. The points that will be discussed in this synthesis are: Language Development, Biological development, technology in the classroom, and assessing student’s learning. Moreover, all of these practical strategies were shown on the two videos selected for this week. Both teachers from the videos intentionally or unintentionally implemented these practices through the execution of the lesson.

My high school and middle school experience might have been different from others. My experience contained less writing and more vocabulary and story elements in books and film. I predicted that English 101 would have more lessons of grammar and strategies to increase length of writing assignments. For what I have experienced in this class, grammar and spelling is taught through writing assignments by having the student learn from his/her mistakes after each assignment. Although I was not prepared for the amount of writing this class assigned. The assignment I was most prepared for was the Refutation essay. I believe I have done a better job because of some tips my friend gave me about the outline process. The assignment I was least prepared for was the advertisement analysis essay. I have always been terrible with “reading between the lines” for photographs and videos. Although the concept of that made the advertisement assignment the most difficult, the most difficult concept of this class was reaching the minimum length required for the essay. This was difficult because of my limited experience in writing a four-page paper. To help write my essay, my friend gave me a tip she learned from her teacher in Denver. She told me to break the outlines body paragraphs into general questions to answer. After answering the questions, put them together and alter them to flow. This strategy increased the length of my rough drafts to be longer than needed. This also made my papers more

Throughout the course of my senior year in high school, I decided to take the English 101 college class to get a head start and become prepared for the upcoming post-secondary educational years. Throughout the course, we have had many reading and writing experiences. We read many essays that was helpful, interesting, and powerful in terms of context. In return, my writing has improved in numerous ways. Many particular handouts have been utilized and aided me in the improvement of my writing. Many of the class activities brought my work to life and helped me think about the work critically. It led me to be engaged with my peers and learn from them. Therefore, I want to explain each aspect.

Throughout the 2016-2017 school year I learned many useful writing concepts in Honors English. These items consist of poems, argumentative essays, dystopian short stories and last but not least informational essays. While completing these assignments I learned a few specific items that stood out to me which is why I am choosing to talk about them. These items are “Read a range of poetry, looking for personal connections”, “Set goals for reading stamina and fluency,” and “Engage in discussion with other readers.” I feel that these three points are three of many points that are going to stick with me in my long future. Not to mention they are very important in moving to the next level of the english language, which is why I choose to talk about these learning objectives.

Speaking up in class discussions can be a daunting thing, everyone is listening and you don’t want to mess up. One of the challenges I will need to overcome is being able to actively participate in class discussions. The syllabus describes active participation as, "speaking in large-groups, whole-class discussions every week and engaging in assigned activities” (Escobar 8). I am not very confident about being able to speak in class discussions and large group discussions to the full extent that I would like to. I sometimes worry that my ideas and interpretations of the topic are inaccurate and flawed, so instead of speaking my mind, I keep quiet. I let others lead