It was very hard to deal with in school because I got confused very easily in anything that had to do with reading or writing. I also never liked or enjoyed reading very much. Due to me having dyslexia it frustrated me to try and read, and I hated to do things that frustrated me. It was very hard for me to find books that I liked. Most ones I would have liked were too advanced for me, so I wouldn’t have been able to read them.
I leaned that sometimes speaking your mind no matter how intimidating can usually pay off in the long run. Writing an essay for my GED was not such a pleasant writing experience. I wrote my essay on my grandmother, and even though I felt it was passionate and detailed the instructor was looking for more. It seems, when writing for a grade, they were looking more for form, punctuation and proper grammar. Disappointed as I was I realized its not always the subject as much as it is your form and process that gets the grade I learned to pay more attention to my technique and process.
In tenth grade I turned in a paper and I failed badly this crushed me. I thought I was going to at least make a C and I made a F. I talked to my teacher Mrs. Crutchfield and she told me she would let me do my paper over. This time I took my time went over my work and glanced through the different writing techniques and I passed with a eighty-five. I became aware that with practice I got better and faster at writing cause writing is like a exercise. It’s easier to write when you’re interested in what you’re writing about.
My English is so poor; I want to improve my English. First time, I avoided classes that involved a lot of writing, as I was still intimidated by past failures. But when poor writing began to affect my grades in other courses, I decided to take a composition class. Now, I use my On Course textbook in my English class, this journal will help me about self-awareness. I began to see how negative scripts could cause problems.
Another educational writer that writes about her thoughts about the negativity of homework is Nancy Kalish. Nancy Kalish, an author of many books suggests"We were always stressed, and I knew many other families were also miserable.’ Hendricks decided things had to change—and she had a unique advantage: She's the principal of Glenrock Grant Elementary School. Together with her teachers, she looked into the research and found what I did: Homework's not what it's cracked up to be" (Kalish). Kalish presents an excellent idea when she talks about the negativity of homework with this statement. There are many authors that agree with these points of view.
Jim Keenan English 101 It Puts The Lotion In The Basket As most kids gradually start to read more and more as they mature, I was one of the few who didn't learn to enjoy reading until senior year of highschool. The teachings of Tom Alessandri were the sole cause of my newfound appreciation for literature. All it takes is the inspiration of one individual to turn someone onto reading and writing. Tom Alessandri was the last highschool English teacher I had, taking his Science Fiction & Horror Literature class. While many people would be discouraged by the title of the class alone, I was intrigued and immediately signed up.
I was told that when you become a junior that’s when everything starts to get harder and you have to buckle down meaning no time for friends and really no weekend because it was going to require a lot of work, but I was sure that if I got through middle school, 9th and 10th grade that it would be no different than any other grade level class that I had taken already and passed. I was receiving an assignment in all classes to complete during the summer. I started the work, but it was so boring that I never finished the work. As time went on, my grades affected me, so I had to get tutoring if I wanted to be able to play football in the upcoming season. As I spent more time trying to bring up my grade in one class, my grades began to suffer in my other classes.
When I eventually transferred to public schools, the issues that everyone overlooked because they were not an obvious problem for me really came back to haunt me when I was assigned any sort of extensive writing assignment. I continued to take reading classes in public school. Fortunately, I managed to get through my English classes and graduate high school never expecting to have to write any sort of paper again. While I thought that to be true for the first two years out of high school, that proved to be a poor mindset to have. June
Terms like assertion, thesis, and elaboration seemed like a foreign language. I managed to slide by in English with good grades, but I never seemed to enjoy it. My junior year in high school changed my perspective on all of this. I showed up for my first day of junior year, not excepting things to be any different. My teacher stood in the front of the room and read the class syllabus in the same monotone voice while my classmates and I drifted in and out of consciousness.
They develop character throughout the movie and at the end, have turned on a light in others’ lives and in their own lives. Erin Gruwell was an inexperienced first time English teacher. She had no idea what to expect or what was going to happen with the students of Room 203. The students had difficult upbringings and were exposed to gang violence every day and because of this, many of the students had lost hope. Erin saw the students differently to the other teachers at Wilson High.