...When I was treated unfair it was in 3rd grade. It was terrible. I wish it had never happened. I very much dislike the teacher, so mean. So here it goes. When I was in 3rd grade my teacher named Mrs. Jackson, she told everyone to stop talking like every teacher tells their students to do. Mrs. Jackson turned around to grab some papers from her desk. A kid beside me starts talking of course, then Mrs. Jackson turned around and thought it was me! Of all kids, and I was the quietest in the class I like never talked and then she yells at me while I sat in my set just watching her face get red with anger and I watched spit fly everywhere it was like watching an angry bull dog, also she was quite fat. I would have liked her if she tried to find out...
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...Coming into this semester I was nervous about Writing 001 because I knew I would struggle and face many challenges. I was right to be scared, but there were so many moments during this course that makes me happy and glad I took this course in particular. Previous to taking this class I had pretty terrible experiences with my English teachers which made me dread going up to the instructor and asking for help. I would rather struggle in silence than to just simply go up and ask for help. This has hindered me from succeeding in classroom settings and negatively affected me in assignments. I would feel alone and if I felt lost there was really no one I could ask for help. I would like to think that I saw some type of a breakthrough with my lack of confidence in...
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...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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...I think over the course of this year I have improved with my writing. This goes with the way I transition my words, making sure I have proper spelling, using the semicolon correctly and not having run on sentences in my paper. There are strength and weaknesses I have but somewhat improved in them. I feel like my writing this semester is way better than all my other years that I had to write. The reason why I think my writing is getting better is because I was never really into writing. I’d sometimes put the writings aside because it was a struggle for me. Now it’s easier to put my thoughts into sentences and making something like a story. This is because we write everyday in this class and that is something that I haven’t done. The strengths I have in writing really depend on the topics. The topics that I’m really good at are the ones that happened to me in life. This makes it easier for me to write because I can tell it the way it happened from my point of view. The weaknesses in my writing are actually trying to put my thoughts into sentences. I think a lot,...
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...Throughout the course of my high school career, I have lived at work. Shortly after spending countless hours on the soccer field my freshman year, I realized I didn’t have the desire to play sports anymore. To my disadvantage, in order to receive the Academic Honors diploma, I needed at least two athletic credits and only playing for one year, provided one meager credit. As my senior year approached, I knew I needed that last credential. I told myself that I could opt out and take an easy yoga class for one semester. Unfortunately, this didn’t fit into my three class schedule so I found myself in the fourth period P.E. class. Which I dreaded this only because I knew it would be myself and freshman. On the first day of school, I walked into...
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...This class 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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...At the beginning of my college class reading 091 we distinguished what a passive and active reader are and which type of reader we were ourselves. In the process, we learned how we best learned and what type of learner, we were, I was a logical learner, which meant I used reasoning and systems to think and build conclusions to learn. This class helped me build knowledge, comprehensions skills, and distinguished how to apply what I know from a text to analyze and evaluate it to better understand what I was reading. I know that as freshmen this year you might think college is difficult which it is but do not get discouraged because the work you put into school you get back and build from. Reading 091 is a stepping stone to your future....
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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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...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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...honest, I do not enjoy writing. I find it tiring, frustrating and immensely difficult. I struggle with fully conveying what I am trying to say, and find all the little rules infuriating. I get why this class is important though. As someone who struggles with writing, it is important that I develop the skills to properly make an argument, research, or form a proper paragraph. And I legitimately think this class has taught me a number of valuable lessons when it comes to writing. The first thing is clarity. Before this class, I had the bad habit of artificially extending my essays by using fancy-sounding convoluted language. This worked in high school, I was able to get away with this method in order to artificially extend the length of my paper and make myself seem more intelligent than I actually was. When I started this class, I quickly learned that doing that was a bad idea. Over the course of the quarter, I have tried to be much more concise and to the point with my writing. This can be seen especially well in my research essay, where I try to avoid unnecessarily repeating myself and get right to the point after bringing in data. While I still do fluff out my...
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...expectations were that I would only have to write my college essays. Even more, I came into the class expecting to make my college essay the best it could be and that was it. I didn’t expect to have write any other essays, but in the end it worked out for the better. Throughout the semester, I was able to develop and nurture my writing skills. Not only was I writing to get into college, but also to prepare for college. However, my overall approach to writing has changed for the better since first beginning Writing Seminar. At first, I based my writing on the basic 5 paragraph technique, but as I progressed through the year, I realized that writing doesn’t really have a specific technique, but instead revolves around the idea of being able to flow. After basing my writing on flow instead of...
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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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...of 2017 I have used my time to focus on bringing my writing skills up. My skills have gotten better in the aspect of morale, explaining, and focus. My last writing class was over a year ago and that was more of a research paper more than an actual focus on my writing skills. What I mean by that is I wasn’t just writing down just an explanation from a book but instead I was using this chance to experience a different in writing assignments. My first week back in writing wasn’t my best week due to my lack in practicing my skills but with just a week or two it came back to me. I started to remember to write out the end plan instead of writing what just comes to mind; which usually got me lost halfway through. The class was also a...
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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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...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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