Thursday, August 27, 2015
Past Memories of My High School Days
High school is an important time for everybody. If someone says otherwise, they are wrong. I found new skills and friends throughout my journey in my high school years. Each day I was faced with difficulties from my various classes. But as the years went on, I learned how to tackle almost every problem that I encountered, whether studying for my math final, preparing for a Spanish test, or reviewing vocab for English. Throughout all those years, English was one of the most difficult classes I had to take. Especially English junior year. That year I had probably the hardest junior English teacher. I never fully conquered his tests and quizzes. My easiest year of English was surprisingly my senior year. Advanced composition was the name of the English class. I had to write a paper almost every week for a semester. I ended the class with a very solid grade. Some things I have looked back upon after graduating high school is that I do not like poetry at all and I think reading it is a waste a time. One of my strengths would be writing papers while given a particular topic. Based on the title of this class, I would imagine the class will teach me and my fellow students different strategies on how to write papers. Also, teach us how to express our opinion better to the reading audience. A concern of mine is reading poetry, I have previously stated, I hate poetry. The only poetry I can actually stand is in music. Other than that one small concern, I feel I am prepared to tackle this class and the rest of my college classes.
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Why do you think poetry is a waste of time? I'm not the biggest fan of it either, but it can and definitely has been used to express some useful and compelling ideas in a creative format.
ReplyDeleteI understand it takes a certain kind of person to love and appreciate poetry. However, I don't think it's right to call it a waste of time. Someone took the time to pour their emotions into a piece of literature and the least we can do is respect their efforts. I do agree with you though that English courses were tough in high school and I hope we can both do well in this course!
ReplyDeleteI am the exact same way about poetry. In high school, we spent months reading and writing poems and I don't feel like I gained any useful knowledge from it. I understand being educated on famous poems, but I think english class should focus more on the type or writing we are actually going to use in life.
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