100 English Class

Education. Why is it such an easy word to understand but such a tedious task to accomplish? We come from a society that hands out education easily, however that education comes with a price. Jean Anyon explains this process through her research in From Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work. Anyon dissects the socio-economic class that determines the types of instruction students receive. Through her research one can compare her findings to Mike Rose’s narrative, I Just Wanna Be Average, to be true and insightful. Rose speaks of his high school life as an underachiever as well as his ability to break free from the mold that he was once placed in. Comprehending both Anyon and Rose, I, myself, have come face to face with the

In the beginning of the semester, everyone was write down two goals that would be accomplished in the semester. Experience in writing papers showed me that I was weak in writing any type of papers. However, I was determined to stop repeating idea by rewording as well as writing information that is unnecessary. Also, I knew I had to improve on writing essays with no to very few mistakes, whether it is structurally or punctually. I am pleased with discontinuing any repetitions while writing, but am not so pleased about structuring and punctuating my sentences.

Applying the writing skills learned in English 101, which includes determining audience and purpose, organization, and grammar and mechanic usage, is also a major goal for students in their second semester of freshman English. The ability for a writer to determine their audience and purpose is essential for all writing. In my proposal essay advocating a plan to stop texting and driving I said “As the number of collisions from cell phone related distractions rises, something must be done to significantly reduce the regularity of this event. This problem affects all age groups, sexes, and ethnicities and it is in our hands as drivers to create safer, more responsible roadways.” In these two sentences, I stated the purpose of my argument which

Starting my ENG101 class, I felt like it was the basics of learning grammar and English material from high school. However, I quickly learned that I needed to brush-up on some of my writing skills. I acquired skills of the past, as well as some new ones. Writing may still be slightly confusing to me when using correct punctuation, run-on sentences, and organizing my thoughts. Learning to use an outline, create a topic to answer questions, and brainstorming has taught me to become a better writer.

When I think of writing I think of peace and pressure all in one. I love writing when it's just me writing to myself releasing my frustration on to paper. I might write poems, letters, or just dairy entries but it's my peace filled moment. I start to think of writing as pressure when I thinking about writing anything anyone be sides myself will read. I have always pushed myself to do well in my writing courses yet I tend to fall short do to simple mistakes. I start to over think or over look simple things that make great impacts on my grades.

In English 9, I remember when my teacher would take attendance at the beginning, but he would ask us a certain question to get to know us. Although the questions never pertained to the lesson, it was conversation starter which allowed me to meet my peers without actually talking to them since I was new. Ultimately, I was ordained into Honors English 10, and it turns out, I knew people from my 9th grade class. If I’m being honest, I don’t like to remember 10th grade, but that teacher recommended me to take AP Lang, which then of course, turned into AP Lit. AP Lang’s collaborative work meant that it was an extremely interactive class. It felt like a family because we definitely got to work with everyone at least once. Each class encouraged me

The lessons in week 2 about run-on sentences and sentence fragments helped refresh my memory about sentence structure. I think that because we had multiple writing assignments as well as discussion posts, I was able to practice this skill. In my everyday life I am a stay at home mom so I do not have the need to write paragraphs or essays often. While taking this course I was also taking two others, so I was able to apply my skills in those courses and get even more practice. I have never had strong skills on developing and writing a thesis statement, which is an important thing to know. The lesson in week five helped me with this. I was able to practice and build upon my knowledge base in this area as

    Writing has never been one of my strong suits. I’m not terrible at it, I have plenty of things to say, but where to place a comma or how to appropriately use a semi-colon has never been something that instantly clicked. Yet, I did not lack confidence entirely. I knew I could. at least, do exactly what public schooling in Texas taught us to do, pass. Then came junior year of high school, probably the most academically intense year I’ve had thus far, the first day of school; additionally the first period of school,

English 102 is my last English course before I do receive my degree. I have chosen to take this course now because I did English 101 last semester. I figured it would be best to take the courses back to back so that way the things that I learned in English 101 is still fresh in my brain. English is not my strongest subject to I thought it would be more beneficial to me to take them back to back. I hope to gain more knowledge about writing different style papers so that way I know how to do it in my future. I also hope to gain more confidence in my writing from this experience. My expectations for the course is to be able to gain as much knowledge as possible so it will help me through the rest of college. My expectation for myself is to work

Over the course of this class I have learned many things about writing that I did not know before, because I never had any great instruction before i came to college. In Grade school and high school, when I got back a graded paper there would just be words crossed out, or punctuation corrections. There would never be any explanation as to why I need to correct this, or why this is wrong. I would go over the corrections and wonder how this is wrong and why does a comma go there but why doesn 't a comma go here. When reading the corrections and notes you made on each of my papers this year, I more easily understood why something was wrong. I might not have made the same corrections in the next paper, but each paper I got back I understood what was wrong, and what I needed to do to correct it.

|(2 points) |Purpose of the writing task is partially maintained |develop the topic |There are more than 5 punctuation errors |

I have had numerous English classes from the time I was six until now. In these English classes I have learned much, ranging from forming simple sentences to learning about adverbial clauses. In my most recent English class, however, I learned little. Mrs. Childers, my English II teacher, taught us how to analyze different texts, and she taught several dozen grammar rules- most of which I had already learned. Even though I experienced high and low points in the class, I discovered a strength that I did not know that I possessed.

I continuously grappled with not knowing where and when to place commas, colons and apostrophes. This creates run-on sentences (Grellier & Goerke, 2014) where my ideas and points seem to get lost.

In the beginning of my career as a teacher, I taught research as a stand-alone unit in my English class. I did require the students to use the skills they learned for a research project linked to another unit, but other than that, I did not really make research a regular part of the learning process. After becoming an NBCT, I began to look for more ways that I could better serve my students, and I realized that research was an area that I needed to improve upon. It became clear to me that for students to truly become learners, they would need to know how to develop their own questions and how to find their own answers.

I have only been attending Cleveland State University for two semesters, and as this course comes to an end I feel like I grown and learned many techniques more than ever. I came to Cleveland State University with only my high school knowledge on how to format an argumentative essay, and throughout this course I now know how to write and format many other papers. Taking English 100 has taught me how to break down and analyze an article, it taught me how to find confidence in my work, and it helped me grow to an even better writer.