I Am My First 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.

As a child I have always loved English and wanted to excel and impress others. I loved to write short stories and would read for several hours. I would spend several consecutive hours reading books to impress

Narrate a Time When Your Literacy Skills Have Helped You Achieve a Personal Goal or Accomplishment. Explain the Significance of This Accomplishment

This English Composition II class has educated me so much on how to write better, write in different formats, schedule my time better, and how to improve my writing. Learning more about all of these categories will help me in the future when I need to write other essays for future college classes that I will have. I am very happy that I took this class when I did, because of it I am more prepared for college this fall. I just hope my future professors are as funny and kind as Mr. Stout has been towards

Throughout my academic career I have always struggled with writing whether it is for the English class or any other liberal arts class. In my English classes, I have a tendency to deviate from the given task. This semester I took a FIQWS Composition class which helped me explore the unexplored areas of my academic writing. There were three main essays (literacy narrative, exploratory essay and critical researched analysis) and each improved my writing tremendously. On the first day of class, I was surprised to see the amount of work is expected from me because there were only three major essays and three reflections. I thought the workload would not be so intense because there are only few major assignments. However, as the Semester has progressed, the work required from me was far more complex and demanding than the assignment listing of the syllabus. On the contrary, with each assignment, I viewed writing from a different perspective, incorporating feedback of my professor and applying the contents I learned from the class.

When I first went back for my last middle school year, I secretly hoped that I would get a great English teacher, and I liked her from the first day. She had us do what is called Daily Grammar Practice (DGP), which greatly strengthened my grammar skills. Mrs. Dunlap also did a unit on World War II, which I loved, for it combined my two favorite subjects together: English and History. Her

Michael has had a very rough morning. It started during language arts class. Ms. Woods was administering a district wide language arts assessment, and Michael began arguing about the website that he needed to go on. Mrs. Wood's ignored him, and attempted to direct him back to the proper site.

English has never been my favorite subject in school. My family has always considered me to be talkative and very social. Therefore, it left all of us, including my teacher, quite in the dark when trying to figure out why I was doing poorly in my fifth grade English class. My teacher’s name was Ms. Johnson, and she was a very high spirited woman. She would always encourage me to simply express myself in my writing.

The day I turned nine years old, I was put into English class taught by Jane. She took a special interest in me, and after class everyday,

When I was in high school, I had to take some type of comprehension test every year. I guess it was for students who were registered as English being there second language. I never really understood the concept of understanding what I am reading or writing. When I was in high school the only books I had read were the “Hungry Games” and “A Child Called It”. Other than that I never really read anything else. During my last year of high school my English class read some Shakespeare book. Shakespeare was probably the most difficult reading I have ever done. I hardly understood what I was reading. Reading Shakespeare probably did not have much of a great impact in my reading since I did not understand anything.

At the age of fifteen, my father brought me to the United States, and here I began my studies in the ninth grade of high school. I learned English during high school and community college, but for me it was not very easy to learn English and eventually I still have difficulty to write well or sometimes to speak English. For three years of high school I attended classes that were entirely in English and just one ESL class, in fact, in my last year of high school, I did not receive any class that will help me with the language acquisition. My math, science, and social studies teachers focused more on teaching their subject, then helping me to understand it. Unfortunately, at that time I still did not speak fluent English. As a result of that I felt lost and confused because I did not understand what the teachers were

I am an international student from China. English is required for every student to learn as a second language in China. I was exposed to English in the first grade. General grammatical structure and vocabulary are taught through primary school to high school. My parents also enrolled me to multiple English summer camps in order to put me in an environment where English is the only language spoken by students and foreign teachers. My oral skills were improved through the experience of summer camps. In the formal English class, the teacher would use numerous strategies to teach. For instance, the teacher used cassettes to play the textbook’s readings in order to help students to learn the correct pronunciation. In the morning, students were often required to read out loud and repeat the vocabulary learned on the previous day to memorize the vocabulary. Chinese and English were both used by the teacher to teach in class. Through my secondary school experience of learning English, I would say the things I learned in English class gave me a basic understanding of the sentence structure and a limited vocabulary expansion. By the time when I started studying abroad in the United States, I realized what I learned in China were not enough. I had a hard time to understand the teacher’s instruction and communicate with my host family. My host family encouraged me to join the school’s cheerleading team and other school activities. This experience gave me a chance to bond with American

I was born in China, where almost all people speak Chinese, so I did not start learning English until third grade. Going into my first English class, I nearly knew nothing about English. Initially, I was nervous when I saw my first English teacher, Mrs. Huang. However, Mrs. Huang was an experienced and patient teacher. To help students overcome their fears of English, she divided the class into several groups to let us help each other at the beginning of class. Although it has been a long time since my first English class, I can still remember how she used her distinctive teaching style to encourage us to learn English and motivate our interests on reading and writing. For example, when Mrs. Huang was introducing the alphabet to the class, she described the alphabet as some interesting images so that students can remember the alphabet more easily. After a few months, my classmates and I became familiar with the alphabet and some basic words like “apple”, and Mrs. Huang began to teach us how to communicate in English. Mrs. Huang started teaching us

During the past few years, I discovered some affectable thing about how I can learn English. In my study journey, I started to learn English when I first attend to school. I have been learning English for my whole learning life, but I was not familiar in English when I was studying in Hong Kong. After I came to America and started to attend school here, I discovered that if I want to be accustomed to English, I had to change my mindset and value.

I look the first debate judge in the eyes and he nods. Then my gaze drifts to the second one and she smiles. Finally I look to my right at my final judge, he simply winks at me. I close my eyes and count to three. It’s finally time to begin; this is my time. These next three minutes everyone has to listen to me and my opinion. I open my mouth, but the only thought going through my head is, why? Why am I doing this? Why am I here? Why did I make this mistake?