So, when I was done with my last blog I was relieved because I thought that I would never have to blog ever again. Turns out I was wrong. My english teacher wants my class to write a blog about our 1st semester. What we liked about it and what we didn't like about it.
I guess that I have to say that blogging wasn't the worst thing, but it also wasn't the best. It made me write down my thoughts about Columbine, which helped me remember what actually went on in the book. But what I didn't like and still don't like about blogging is the amount of time that it takes up. You have to think so hard about what you're typing so that you don't sound like a complete idiot. You really have to know what you're talking about and sometimes it was too confusing to have any idea of what I was talking about. Also, blogging didn't really help me fully understand the book. I didn't get to talk about the book with my other classmates that read Columbine as well.
There were other things, of course that we did besides our Indepent Reading books. We read the book Night. It's about a boy that survives the Holocaust. For our project for that we had to write Night Journals. I really like the journals. We were given a person from the Holocaust and we had to write journals as them and tell about what when on while they were alive or survived. I really enjoyed these because they showed me what people had to go through then, whether it was hiding out for years or having to be in the camps.
Being in an English class we had to write essays, of course. I don't like essays at all. I usually stress out about them too much and can't think which will make me do bad on them. I feel like in class we aren't getting enough help writing the essays, or it just seems that way to me since I can't concentrate that well in a school environment. I have only liked writing essays once, and that was my freshman year when I wrote about my great-grandma. It was a subject that I knew very well and am very interested in.
We have done projects like videos and powerpoints which I enjoy. We have also had in class discussions on the book that we are reading at the time. In class discussions is probably the thing that I like the most. They really help me understand the book and figure out the actual meaning and what is going on. I feel like we don't do them enough and if we did then class would be more exciting and we wouldn't regret waking up in the morning to just go write an essay and read a book.
So to say how I liked my 1st semester, it was okay. I feel like it could've been better. It wasn't terrible but I didn't love it. Good job Mr. Dunn :)
