English Class

This year in our English 1010 class, we covered many different genres and types of writing. We covered how to write personal narratives, how to respond to other students and other forms of writing, and how to professionally write essays. Briefly, we touched down on how to write argumentatively and were also required to create an infographic, wish was probably my favorite assignment. Although I never thought of myself as a strong writer, I believe that this class has greatly improved not only my writing skills, but my thinking skills as well. This was my first English class to be taken through dual enrollment and I believe that it went quite successfully while challenging me as a writer.

The books Night, by Elie Wiesel, and The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, by John Boyne are two intriguing books by themselves. However, when you put them together you gain an improved perspective about the Holocaust. You also get see how people were affected by it, how they reacted to it, and what their opinions were about it. These two books contain many similarities and differences, but they go so well together.

The Holocaust was life changing for the Jewish people. Inside the book Night, Eliezer Wiesel is a Jewish boy whom’s emotion and spirituality changes after his imprisonment in the concentration camps. The Jewish people, including Eliezer, faced dehumanization many times during this period of time. Teenagers should learn about the Holocaust because it engages students to think critically and self-reflect, by doing so they can make essential connections between the history and the contemporary moral choices they confront with their own lives.

The focus of my all my classes is to extend student knowledge! Sometimes, I might focus on various topics they may have little or no experience with. I try to expand students’ understanding of a topic by focusing on vocabulary study, listening to academic lectures, facilitating group discussions, and various other

Good Morning Hilliard School Board. Today we will be discussing the Novel Night, by Elie Wiesel. This is a novel that some may believe shouldn’t be read in class. I, however, think that that we should continue to read the book in class. In my opinion, Night was an engaging and inspiring book. It shows and tells people what happened during the Holocaust through a first-hand account which is important. The reason it’s important is because it reveals to you the emotions behind it. You comprehend the the effects on people through their actions and thoughts, which you don’t get when learning about the Holocaust in World Studies. For example, Elie loses a lot of hope throughout the novel. By the end of the novel, when he leaves the Holocaust,

When I first learned about the Holocaust in sixth grade, I wasn’t as interested as I am now. This book has made me way more interested in the Holocaust. That is why I think this book should be a required high school reading. Night by Elie Wiesel should be a high school reading because it contains a very tragic event in world history and many other reasons.

The Nobel Peace Prize winning novel, Night, by Elie Wiesel is a novel that is very teachable. It is very historical, educational, and a great short read. The book only consists of a little over one hundred pages, but it should be a required read for all high school students for various reasons, all though we’ve all learned about the Holocaust at a certain period of time.

Last year in English class we were required to read the memoir Night, by Elie Wiesel. I have read many Holocaust journals and memoirs in the past, but none of them had quite the same impact as Night. The book opened my eyes to the freedom and the comfortable lifestyle that I take advantage of everyday. It was hard for me to fathom the pain that he and the other prisoners suffered, and the possibility of my entire world changing overnight the way Elie’s did.

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 course definitely changed the way I approached writing a paper. One day in lecture you quoted Ernest Hemmingway saying, “The first draft of anything is shit.” This changed the way I approached and wrote papers. I used to start papers the night before, barely look over them and making few changes. This course encouraged me to outline, write a rough draft and constantly review then finalization the paper. Peer review before this class I though was pointless because most student hardly pay attention to the paper and usually wrote “good job.” The students in the class actually read my paper and gave honest feedback and ways to improve it. Also to have a teacher read your draft and give feedback with what is wrong and ways to help the quality of the paper helped greatly. This English class was definitely different than high school English.

In English 8 we read a wide variety of books in class, but one really jumped out at me. Night by Elie Wiesel, a memoir of Elie's experience in the height of WWII. Going through hardships that many today could not handle. Constant death, running in heavy snow and facing selection with fear of being separated from his father. He lost his mother and two sisters in the beginning and throughout the rest of his time in the concentration camp he saw his father slowly deteriorate physically and mentally. Elie also questioned his faith and at times completely discarded the devotion he once had. Even after losing everything that once held meaning Elie left the camp barely the same person he was at the beginning. After finishing the book everything I

Challenging, interactive, dedicated, and professional are just a handful of adjectives that describe my past 8th grade English teacher. Filled with compassion and determination, she always strived to help not only me, but her other students achieve excellence. Over the years, I have realized there will never be another educator like her.

In general, I worked with two groups of students; the Junior English class and the ELD class. Both provided valuable insight in how High School teaching works and what I can do to succeed if I pursue a future career in High School education. When working with the Junior level English class, I worked especially on guiding their thoughts on how to best convey their messages. The students I did work with had a varied level knowledge in English writing, and as such I needed to understand how to work with students who needed aid in different departments of writing. My biggest objective was to both evaluate and understand the various levels that students were at so that I could perform “triage”. By this I am stating that I knew I had limited time to work with each student, so I wanted to assist the student in the best way I could in the most efficient and effective manner. In order to do that, I had to understand more about who the student was.

Anyone who is, or was, a high school student knows what it’s like to sit in an English class wondering how learning about Shakespeare and grammar was going to help you in the real world. However, as you got older you probably realized that you used the skills you learned in English almost every day. From writing reports, to presenting, to job interviews, English skills remain relevant, and necessary throughout life. What if English classes began focusing on real life skills instead of on tedious grammar lessons and vocabulary lists? I believe that emphasizing independent problem-solving skills, as well as encouraging students to create personal brands, and teaching them to communicate their ideas professionally when writing and presenting, would greatly benefit all English Language Arts students.

Research is a vital tool for education. It is research that gives us the ability to accurately observe broad pools of student, respond to data, and thus become better educators. Without research, we wouldn 't be able to have great standard curriculums. But as I learned in this section, research is complicated, detailed, and often labor intensive.