semester relfection blog

Global Education is a different kind of class than anything I have ever taken before. In this class Mr. Fielder’s class he has taken a different approach to English than I am used to, a lot of writing (a lot of struggling), many rewrites and revises, and I have found out that you can never write a perfect piece. At the beginning of this class I didn’t even know what margin notes were, now I would like to think that I have improved very much. The part I like most about this class is we get to ponder and discuss some of the same questions that the president (Obama) deals with everyday.

The most difficult part of this class was the writing by far. From the first days writing assignment to the Paul R. letters, my writing techniques have improved dramatically; in the beginning I was using lower case (eye’s) and only writing one copy and turning it in, now I will always make sure to have someone read my final copy to look for any spelling, grammatical, or punctuation errors. One thing I have tried to work on especially hard on because I have had such a hard time with it is writing a clear thesis; it is the key to having a good pieces of writing, without it your lost and if you do it right everything else will just fall into place. i.e.” President Obama is the best president we have ever had because he is African American.” 2. “President Obama is a very good president because of his speaking skills and his efforts in the Middle East”. I have defiantly learned some key things about writing a thesis this semester.
If you wanted to know what ate up the most time this semester it would be reading. When you get to be in high school you can comprehend a good part of what you read. Pulling material out of a selection and deciding how to tell other people to understand it is difficult; hence Q.C.V.I.’s . The first and for most thing you had to learn was how to leave a question open ended, this made the question debatable and in conclusion a discussion question. “Who is narrating this story?” (a question that can be found in the book) “Why do you think the author chose Mike to narrate the story instead of his twin brother Sean)? This question can only be speculated at, never answered (making it the right choice).