...english ll I learned many things. Some of them got more of my attention than others and some of them were just not of my interest. Some of the things that I learned in this class are discrimination, a person’s life journey and how to debate. To begin with during the first weeks of school I learn a good lesson about discrimination. During the summer they assigned us to read a book called “The secret life of bees”. In this book there was a lady of black skin color who was discriminated by many people in the town. Many of them did not know her but they just made fun of her and molested her, but what they didn’t know was that she was actually a good working and proud women who was always trying to do something good for others....
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...thought about college was that I would come in and sit down in an hour class and take notes all day. That’s not the case some classes are hands-on and other are note taking classes. A thing I did not want to start doing was being late to class. This is a bad habit for me because I am generally late to my classes in high school. Which I get tardies and then that later turns into after school detention. How use to take note was I would copy everything word for word. Now I short hand all of my notes, because I could get all of the notes done in time. So I would go home and not have the right notes to study for a test. How I study for a test was I would just look over my notes and go to bed. Now I would look over my notes and make annotations on them. Sometimes I would ask another person to quiz me on some of the martial. Then I would review it before the test so it’s fresh on my memory. How I would manage was I would just put things and do something else. Now I get the projects and homework done on time. So I can have free time to do what ever I want to....
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...It is Monday morning, and my heart is beating violently as if it is trying to break out of my chest. While I get around for school, my mind is swirling around everything that I have to accomplish this week. Three quizzes, two tests, and nightly homework assignments are the academic-related tasks. In addition, I have to practice the songs I am learning at piano lessons and the dances my classmates and me are learning at dance lessons. Right after school I have a SEE (Students Educating Equality) Club meeting, and on Wednesday I have a Key Club meeting. In between all of this I have to take care of my puppy and finish my chores. I may be a little overwhelmed right now, but I know that I am capable of getting everything done while still finding...
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...sophomore year, I decided to make the jump and enroll in AP chemistry as my junior year science. The entire first semester of AP chemistry was an uphill battle and was riddled with failures. Any preconceived notions I had about my ability to succeed were seemingly shot down within the first 3 weeks of the class. There were concepts I had never learned and problems I wouldn't have dared touch in my sophomore chemistry class. After a long quarter of struggling, I knew that I needed to make a change. I decided to look at what I was doing wrong in AP chemistry, and what I was doing right in my other classes. As AP chem was the only AP I took junior year, the lens that I looked at it through was much different. I never had expected a class to require so much time after school. I had never experienced poor grades on tests I had studied hours for. Strategies that had worked in the past with other courses were ineffective for this one. Besides the grades, the ideas and thinking strategies I learned after that first quarter resonated throughout my life. Outside of school, I thought more critically about problems to solve, simple and complicated, in everyday life. I found that there are many more ways than one to get from point A to point B....
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...has helped me learned many things about what to expect in college. The first thing I learned in class was the location of the Writing Center. When I moved to college, I did not have a clue where any of the buildings were located. However, I soon learned where the Writing Center is located because we had a class there. It is important for me to know where the Writing Center is located because it is likely I will need to go there while I am in college. Another thing I learned in class was how to form an appropriate email. In class we had an etiquette email assignment. I always knew how to write an email, but I never knew how I should address a professor in college. I learned that for this class I could say “Dear Kate”, but if I emailed...
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...Growing up I always excelled in english and writing papers was a breeze for me. I would always get an easy A without much effort, but this course provided me with a real challenge. I found that the grading was much more critical and the content expected was at a much higher level than ever before. However, all of the challenges I faced in this class proved to beneficial to me as I did end up getting a better grade with each paper. This class brought me many great experiences and taught me countless lessons, some that will last a lifetime. One of most valuable lessons this class taught me was how to manage my time more effectively. I suffer from a bad case of procrastination, but the amount of time allotted for each of these essays didn’t give me time to do much procrastinating. I became much better at just writing instead of sitting and thinking what I should say. Then after I wrote my essay I went back and edited the content of my paper to bring it up to college level writing. I also found paper rater to be a big help with this because it helped to transform my high school level writing into something much more mature through the vocab tool it provides. All of these factors helped me to overcome my second nature of putting things off and I even have started...
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...I can’t believe it’s the end of the semester already, 2016 is going by fast! I had to take this course because it was one of the courses I had to take for my degree. As I sit back and reflect on this course, I am smiling because this course makes me feel confident that I have chosen the correct career path for myself. There were many valuable concepts I learned in this class that will be beneficial to me in the future. First, the feedback you gave me on the essays we completed in this class will help me become a better writer in the future. It’s important to write well if you want to be a writer in the future. Your feedback was clear and helped me see what I was doing wrong. I love that you were strict on grading the essays. Second, I enjoyed...
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...During this course I have learned there is in fact a great deal of work required, in writing. Throughout my lifetime, I have been required to write numerous essays and papers for various subjects, all requiring different styles and techniques. Before immersing myself in the writing process I would try and think of whom I am writing to and what I am writing about. I always assumed I was writing for the audience of my teacher. Writing an argumentative research paper is something I had yet to accomplish in my college career, not only was it thought provoking, this paper also challenged me in numerous ways, such as, understanding who I should be directing my thoughts towards throughout the essay, as well as the simple steps of organizing my thoughts...
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...eventful and challenging. I learned so many things this year about my education or just life in general. There are things that happened this year I want to repeat and then there are things I never want to remember. I think I improved a lot from 6th grade to 8th. In 6th grade I was terrified 11 year old about to start a new school and I didn’t know how I would get through it. Now I’m a 14 year old 8th grader, nearly in high school, I learned to not be afraid of everything new thing that comes along. I learned that I have to accept it and if I don’t like I have to speak up about it. I think I have always been a little too mature for my age. I just look at the other immature people I have to sit in class with every day and think “I don’t want to be like them and what their about.” I think I...
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...this year I thought I was prepared for the freshman classes that I had heard about. Walking into Newton North on the first day of school I thought that everyone would stay in their own friend groups, my best friend would stay my best friend, and nothing would change. I was wrong. Throughout this year I think I changed a lot and strayed from who I thought I was going to be. I was confident in the beginning of the year, but not just with myself but with my friend group and my classes. Though my confidence with my new friend group has stayed the same I've began to question myself and who I was and am. I compare myself to others and I tried to be like everyone else. I also realized how hard I had to push myself to keep the...
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...There aren't many skills in this course I could bring into this class but the ones I could bring are my independent skills, my hard-working, and my enjoyment of writing. I’ve always worked hard during this course, always trying my best and not giving up. I've fairly enjoyed this class because I get to express my own opinions and thoughts and there's no such thing called the wrong answer. Independent work is what suits me the best when it comes to writing, I liked always being in charge of my own work and being able to know what mistakes I made as an individual.I personally know I'm not the best writer in the whole world but I also know I'm not the worst ,.. well hopefully... The stuff I need to work on in this class is my public speaking skills,...
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...When I was in high school, I took creative writing course. Because at that time, I just arrived USA, so I wanted to improve my English writing ability. However, when I began to know this course more, I was deeply attracted by this course. I remember there was a time, the teacher asked us to get outside and sit in front of the lawn, and wrote down what we felt. It is really a memorable experience to me. In China, I usually sat in the classroom and racked my brain to write, and I always failed to convey my thoughts and feeling accurately. I sat in such a peaceful place, listened to the birds, to the insects, to the wind. My pen seemed beginning to control me. I just wrote down what I thought, what I felt. I felt free and relax, like flying in...
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...I didn’t expect to do a lot of anything in College Composition. I thought to myself that I could use the class period as an extra study hall to make sure I had my other classwork done and finish any actual “assignments” the night before they were due. To be honest, I treated the class as so for a while. It wasn’t until after my first essay that I realized how I could improve my writing in preparation for college now instead of later. I didn’t realize that I tend to write in a passive tense every other sentence until now. I also, often, used, too many comma splices, which butchered the flow of my writing. I sometimes missed the MLA format details which lowered my scores early on. After I submitted the last essay, I was glad that I didn’t sign up for English IV. I enjoyed some papers...
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...This class wasn’t exactly what I expected, I was not ready and misjudged myself. The way I write isn’t any different, in my opinion, besides the fact I think more about what I’m writing if it's good, and having someone proofread it. This class showed me that I am not a writer, and don’t want to be one. I did not grow as much as expected as a writer, I thought I was going to get better with comma splices, but no improvement. I could improve more on my sentence structure, paragraph transitions, word choice, and my ideas could be more organized. I don’t know how I will compensate for this in the future, I honestly don’t. I guess when I have someone check it, to go over it with me on what I’m struggling with. From what I did learn, it would...
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...Although I am not a very big fan of writing and reading, I learned a lot of things in literacy class. I learned how to write journals, opinion essays, read a news report and also worked with some difficult vocabulary. I found the news report writing very hard to write because I have always struggled with writing news reports. Along the way I learned how to do it so it became easier and easier. In the starting of the class I was not a big fan of reading books while I went along I started reading more books and I actually liked it a lot. Opinion essay was never a huge problem for me to write but it could always use improvement and in the class it did get improved. My goals at the starting of this class were that I improve my reading and writing...
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