Reading, And The Learning Environment Of English

This semester has impacted me and my writing abilities greatly. I feel I have improved in all aspects of writing. Throughout High school writing was never my preferred subject, but after taking this class I have developed an interest in writing and no longer look at it as a chore, but more as a method to express myself.

Overall i enjoyed last semester even though it wasn’t the best for me,it was a good experience. So.So now when i look back i know what not to do so my grade won’t ever be as low or get to the point to where it was in first semester.It’s always good to go through things like this so it won’t happen again.I have been acknowledged to know now to get all my participation points,notes and get all the reading we tend to have done,this semester. You live and you learn and i learned a lot last semester which made it even more enjoyable the whole

A semester has passed since I started college and my journey of becoming a better writer. It has been a very important semester for my future college career, and I would not be here without the things I have accomplished. The composition program has really helped me to prepare for what college writing is all about. Now standing here and looking back I could not imagine how it would be without that class. I believe my English, and my writing is better than it has ever been, and all thanks to the composition program.

Putting all the parts of writing together is what makes a good piece of writing. Over the semester, my realization of what I was doing wrong paired with the different formatting strategies and the desire to become a better writer has helped me to become better overall. I believe that practice makes perfect, and while I have not perfected my writing or even come close yet, I believe that I have gotten closer to being a proficient writer. I believe that this class has helped me to get closer to becoming a proficient writer, and will help me in my future classes and

Over the course of this semester I learned a lot about myself as a writer. This English 101 class has really allowed me to expand my essay structure and ways of thinking. This was my first college writing course and it has given me much more freedom when writing because in high school I felt limited and like what we were writing was not very important. In high school I would write essays to just to fulfill the required word or page count and to a degree I still feel like this but maybe that is why I am an engineering major but in this course I actually was able to express my ideas and for the first time really test the limits of my writing capabilities. I really enjoyed being able to incorporate my voice more in my essays and I believe

The past two semesters were great experiences. Within this past school year my knowledge as a reader and writer has improved. It felt like it was just yesterday, when I had a lot of difficulty writing and poor reading strategies. Now, as I said before, I am an improved writer and reader. The assignments and class activities over the two semesters were great benefits to me, and helped me make progress towards the first year learning goals.

This semester was my very first semester as a college student. Being the first, it was probably the semester I would learn the most in. I learned the expectations for writing that I will have to live up to for the next four years of my college career. Though my high school teachers were usually demanding because I was in the Honors English section throughout high school, writing in college has still ?raised the bar? for me. Also, in high school, we would have weeks to pick a topic, create a thesis, outline the paper, write the paper, and then revise the paper. In college, the time restraints are not quite as lenient. I?ve had to learn to manage my time and be more productive with what free moments I

Over the last week, I've been able to look at all the progress that I have made since I started the semester and I feel I have earned an A+. I remember the first unit of the semester was on how to write a proper sentence. I thought it was a joke. Learning how to write a sentence? Is this first grade all over again? Everybody knows how to do that. I recall the quote that Mrs.Brown shared really changed my mind and showed me that there was much to learn. It was from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s, The Great Gatsby:

If I’m to be honest, this school year has been very enjoyable, much more than any of my previous classes. We’ve gone through so much as a class, had many assignments along the way–some that I enjoyed, while others not so much. We rewrote the Declaration of Independence, Walt Whitman 's I Hear America poem, and argumentative essays, like out The Raven analysis. We also gave speeches– that was the hardest for me, in my previous English classes, none of them made me go in front of the class and present–, made infograph, and even a multigenre project. We also can’t forget the books we’ve read in class, like poems from Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, and novels from F. Scott Fitzgerald, and we can’t forget novella like Of Mice and Men or short stories that we read in our English textbook. All of these things have tested my ability to better improve myself or inform me on where I struggle with so I can improve in many categories such as being a speaker, reader, writer, and listener.

The learning environment I chose to create mirrors what my high school English class would ideally look like if money was no object. According to the USC Rossier School of Education, on average, students in the United Stated spend about 11,700 hours of their lives inside school buildings. I chose to design a comfortable, calm learning space, that reflects passion-based learning, with a neutral color scheme and flexible seating arrangements to optimize my student’s learning style and environment so that in return what they learn in this space becomes part of who they are and their identity. Jennifer Ward, a high school English teacher in Michigan and a TED-Ed Innovative Educator, revamped the style and environment of her classroom this past year. Her explanation for rearranging and decorating the class particularly stood out to me, “A high school English classroom is more than books and desks. A classroom needs to reflect the lives, the learning, the connections and collaborations that happen here.” (Juliani, 2015. P. 3).

It’s unreal that the first semester is already over. As I looked back on the time spent in English 120 I have mixed feelings. It was tough work, and a lot of it but in the long run I truly believe I have such stronger writing skills. The hard work paid off and has significantly benefitted me. On the first day of class I said, “I hope I can gain the knowledge to write a strong, solid, long essay. I hope a I can learn to transition into the new material and learning experience.”

I’m looking forward to this semester. I can’t wait to learn different skills to better help me develop my college writing. I tend to be really enthusiastic about learning, since throughout my entire life I looked forward to having a career. I want to develop a stronger vocabulary and writing to better demonstrate myself to others. This course will help me prepare for the examination dates coming up. In addition, this is my second semester at LaGuardia Community College; so far everything has been going great. It was a nice transition from high school to college, yet difficult at the same time. I had to start doing things like an adult and no longer like a child. I look forward to my experience at the community college,

When I first started the class I was struggling a lot. Since English is my second language, I had many stressful moments that made me think about dropping my classes. But when I thought about my future, I just kept studying even harder, waiting for my performance to improve. As a result, I felt like every time I wrote an essay, it got easier, which tells me that I’m on the right path. In addition, this class has helped me improve my grammar, taught me an important life lesson about sticking on my goal and helped me to enhance my computer skills

It is almost surreal to believe that the semester is over. Just a few short months ago, I sat in that same desk looking more like a deer in the headlights than a successful English student. However, through hard work and grit I have clawed my way to the end of the course. The lessons learned will forever shape my writing habits and academic experience.

English class seemed to be the most dreadful to take within school. Writing essays for most of my grade in a class is not what I was looking forward too. When I entered college I knew that it would be one of many challenging classes I would have to take. Starting from the lowest English class to moving on up, the writing assignments became longer and more thought out. The time came when I got into this class that I knew more work was going to have to be put into essays and thus brought out what I had not seen before in my work progress.