Final Blog Posting
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Which in class writing was your favorite? Why?
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Which in class writing was your least favorite? Why?
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Review all your writing chronologically (earliest to latest). List
three interesting observations or changes in your writing. Which are the most
profound (obvious and important)? Why?
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If you could change anything about your writing this semester what
would it be? Why?
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What did you like best about this course?
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What did you like least about this course?
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What would you have done differently this semester if you could
have a do-over?
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What did learn about yourself as a student, a thinker, a writer
this semester?
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What could I, Ms. A., have done differently to improve the course?
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You begin this course with an engagement and participation score
of an A. Attendance, participation in activities and group work help you
to maintain this grade. Evaluate yourself and assign yourself a grade for
the in class portion of this course. Don’t forget the reasoning behind
your self assigned grade.
This
semester I wrote a couple things about happiness and those were probably my
favorite. One of my essays was titled “Smile and just be famous” and when
reading this essay today, I still totally agree with the fact that a smile can
make my day! Smiling is communicative and it shows people what kind of mood you
are in. I mean even if you are having a bad day, don’t see everything red and
decide that the world is against you. I don’t. I just smile and try to think
about something else to feel better. Writing about happiness made me realize how
easy it is to be happy in life, even with simple things. Happiness is accessible
to anyone at any time.
My least
favorite writing was the one about “What is in the way…” I talked about money
and how it is financially difficult as a student to survive and pay bills,
afford college, pay for gas, food, and all those things we wish parents were
still buying for us. I just hate talking about my financial situation right now
because I do not and cannot have a job this year, since it is my first year as
an international student (Thank you US government).
While
reading over my writing chronologically, I noticed that I expend my vocabulary
a lot. I mean WOOOW. I found ways to express myself differently and more
specifically. I also started using synonyms so I could sound less repetitive. Free
writing definitely helped me improving my English level and also expressing more
precisely what I wanted to write.
If I had to change
one thing, that would be my grammar obviously,. As an international student
whose native language is French, it is not easy to think, translate, write and
be grammatically correct and a totally different language than my own. But still, I would like my grammar to improve
so that I do not make (basic) mistakes all over my writings.
What I like
the best about this course was our free writing. At first, I thought my English
class was going to be a bunch of grammar and vocabulary exercises, a lot of
book analysis,… But no! Instead we had the chance to express ourselves through personal
free writings. I liked the idea of sharing most of our writing with our
classmates and also the group activities we had. This class was a lot more fun than
I thought it would be. There is nothing that I did not liked. I learned new
things every day.
I think I
took a few weeks to really decide to put myself into those free writings and
try to improve my writing style. So if I had to do it over, I would start
working hard at the very beginning of this class.
I learn
about myself that I was a lot more mysterious than I appear. Writing those free
writes made me discover myself more deeply about the ways I can see things and
how I can express them to my audience.
NOT MISS ONE
DAY OF CLASS. Ms. A is an awesome teacher and one semester of class goes by
fast. There is no reason to be absent or skip class!
If I had to assign myself a grade for this class
I would give me an A. I think I only missed class once in the winter because
the roads were very bad. But besides that I have never been late and I always
try to give the best of me in class and to my best in the writings we had to
do. I always tried to improve myself in my writings class after class by expensing
my vocabulary and, even if we did free writings, I tried to improve my grammatical
skills as well