My learning fall and rise

When I came back from school on August 12, I was happy with all my classes but then I saw English. Growing up I never liked English class because the teachers did not care about your learning all they cared about was you turning in your work and that's it. My thinking, reading, spelling, and memorizing skills weren't the best, So when I walked into these classes I didn't have high hopes. But when you stood up and started talking about yourself and then walking out so the whole class can decide if we want a normal boarding English class or if we wanted to try out this thing called open-source learning. And that was an interesting experience because it was the first day of school and the class didn't know each other that well.

  Getting introduced to Journals, a blog of your own, memorizing poetry, post video proof that you memorized the poetry was really different for me. The journals were new to me because I never had a notebook just to write about a topic that gave us. And I like it because the journal topics are not easy but too hard. And they require you to think long and hard. And that's something that helped me in this class. Having your own blog where you can post your own thinking, your response to topics we are discussing, and post about how your day was, was new to me too.it was new to me because in every class I have we use the internet just a little bit and we didn't explore all the possibilities that the internet has to offer. Memorizing is not a new thing because I do that every day but for a teacher to make you memorize poetry was a new concept for me. And then on top of that, you had to provide evidence (via video recording)to show you really did remember the poetry like Richard Cory or Laughing Heart. Richard Cory" Whenever  Richard Cory walked down the street we people on the pavement looked at him, he was a gentleman from sole to crown clean favored and imperially slim."I still remember parts of the poem. The story about Young GoodMen Brown was a story I really enjoyed. The reason I enjoyed the story was that in the story it talked about a Guy named young goodmen brown and his perception of the people he talks to and sees on a day to day basis was changed when he took a walk into the woods.

Things started to get intents around the time of the first progress report card because One I didn't have all the blog post and two I was falling behind in my journal. It was really stressful because this progress report card determined if I was going to keep playing water polo or if I was going to get dropped. I have realized that even though it was a stressful week but I didn't give up. I kept going. A quote I use when things getting hard is a quote from Snoop dog and it goes like this "You are going to lose more then you win in life. But are you going to stand up?'-Snoop Dog

My learning has improved like my thinking skills, my memorizing skills, and my writing skill. I have noticed that my overall thinking has been improved because of the journal topics and the essays and the stories we read. Another way the journal has helped me was with my writing skills. This helped me by challenging use to write a least half a page about the journal topic. And my memorizing skills has improved by you giving me different types of ways to memorize things. One way is by repeating the thing you want to remember, by listening to a number over and over or writing down the number that helps sometimes too.

Overall I like this class. For ones, I like my English class!!! I never thought that an English class can be fun and wanting to learn something new every day and for that I thank you :)