Think back over your four years of high school English classes. List three things you would like to have learned more about during those four years of English classes. Give specific details for each item.
Three things I would like to have learned more about is being able to organize my thoughts when writing a paper. Maybe a chart or web but something that works for me that is fast and effective. Another thing I wish I learned about is Shakespeare. It is so hard to understand what he is writing about. I also don't a lot about him. A lot of famous writers or composers I know about but I don't know when Shakespeare died or anything about his personality. Also I wish how to make writing and English easier for me. I don't find it very interesting or fun and I wish I found something in it that made me like it. I guess I can't like everything.
Over the past four years I wish I could have learned more about how to write papers better and faster (I know Cristina wrote that too but it was my idea too). We learn the basics every year but i wish we learned how to write in the college level like our senior year. I also wish we learned how to write in cursive better and more clear. I learned only a little when i was younger so I wished we went over for a bit in high school so kids had better writing. I also wish I learned more about Tristan and Isole... I think we should watch the movie in class next week and compare the differences between Wagner's opera and the movie. That seems like a great idea!
What i wanted to learn more about? Well, i dont know i guess i would've wanted to read more of the books that i wanted rather than ones that really didnt interest me. like That one with the dude who ends up dying in Alaska..dont get me started with that crap. Or all the shakespeare stuff. i hate that. He say the same thing over n over and i hate it. another thing that i would rather have done was less writing on stuff that never seemed important to me. As much as i would want to talk about the pros n cons of Romeo and Juliet, i woud rather write about things that gave meaning to life now rather then way back when. Also i would like it if there would be more of a like i dont know. the writing forms of technically what you need. other than WASL you dont need to know about it anything more. so yeah.
Overall i believe that in the last 4 years of highschool english i have leanred allot. The main thing I could have larned more about would be grammer and punctuation. I feel that there are still times in my highschool writing where i forget where to put proper punctuation. I also wish That they wouldnt teach shakespear in school. The only reason i like to get taught shakespear is because it puts me to sleep. Finally the last thing i would have liked to learn would have been, how to be more profeshinal when typeing emails. Overall i have loved my highschool english especially with you MR SCHINDLER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have learned a lot over the past three years of English however there are something I would have liked to learn more about. My junior year is really the only year I did a lot of writing and that is something I wish i would have focused on more. I wanted to expand on writing and organizing my thoughts on paper however unfortunately i didn't do a whole lot of writing essays this year. I also wish i would have expanded my vocabulary more to be able to write at a college level. I also would have liked to learn how to analyze literature better, that is something i some what struggled with my junior year and wanted to get better at.
I would have loved to learn more about getting the skeleton of an essay down in a shorter amount of time, so that I can just flesh it out later. I would have also liked to learn more to help improve my intro and conclusion paragraphs. It seems every time I improve on one of them, the other needs some more work. I also would have like to read some more books. For the most part, I liked the selection of books that the teachers picked out, except for a few. But, being a fast reader, I often found myself ahead of the class or finishing the portion early so that the book either seemed to drag on or so that by the end of the year we had only read a couple. I wish we had a system where it was more like a list of books you had to read, and then report/go more in depth on, et. certera. Overall it was pretty good i guess.
Over the past four years of high school I would have liked to expand my vocabulary more. I wish I knew more words in order to write better and more interesting papers. I also would have liked to work more on the process of writing a paper instead of just going ahead and writing it. I would have liked to hear good tips about writing papers more often. Lastly I wish that I learned how to open paragraphs and papers better and how to overall write more interesting things. Otherwise I believe that I have learned a great deal in high school and I cant wait to continue next year in college. THANKS SCHINDLER!
One thing I wish I could have spent more time learning about in English is vocabulary. I wish I could have expanded my vocabulary a little bit more over the years.
Another thing I wished I learned more about over the past four years is how to make an opening statement that would attract the reader. I feel like I never quite learned how to write a more interesting opening statement or a thesis. This would have made writing college essays much easier.
Thirdly, I wish I could have developed my public speaking more in my English classes over the past four years. Public speaking is a vital skill to have in the future for college and future careers. I think developing public speaking should be an important part of English class’ agenda.
The first thing that I would've wanted to learn more about is probably vocab. I think we only touched on it a little and i wish we would have expanded on it more, a little each year. I think it also would've helped me become a better writer. Another thing that I wish we did more of was probably reading more interesting books instead of the same old literature ones. I wish we could've gotten to read more modern ones maybe about politics or the environment. Things more like that would have been nice to learn about. The last thing I could think of to learn more about would be how to write longer papers like the ones we'll have to do in college or how o outline them so it won't be as much as a shock next year. Those things probably would've helped a little more and made me more interested in learning about english.
One of the three things that I had more about was I would be able to write papers in a more effective way. I would have liked to learn about writing persuasive more since that will be used in no matter what type of work you go into. If I become a band teacher I could use this type of essay to make the administration buy new instruments or uniforms. I would have also liked to learn vocabulary. A bigger vocabulary would have helped me write essays but it also would have helped me to use different words in songs and poems that I write. I would have also liked if we had more biographies and autobiographies in english class. I really enjoy this type of writing and would have been interesting to study in class.
Over the last four years English has been one of my favorite subjects, however there are some things I wish we focused more on. I wish we focused more on poetry. We did some last year but that is one of my favorite forms of writing. I also wished we linked more visual creation with writing. I love art projects and that helps me have ideas the help me have more creative writing abilities. Lastly, along with Heather I would like to learn more about Tristan and Isolde. It has been one of my favorite stories told throughout opera that we have discussed and I think seeing modern day movies like we did with Midsummer's nights Dream helps my generation relate and understand the story more.
1. I would have liked to learn more latin roots and stuff and be able to actually use it. We learned some of the basics and we learned more but never talked about them again. I would like to be able to see a word and find the roots and figure out what it means. 2. I wish we had more poetry units so we could get more fluent in writing it. Also so we could interpret poems easier because they can be confusing with all the symbolism in the lines. 3. I would have liked to go more into classical composers and actual musicianship with instrumentals. I liked when we talked about Mozart and his music and would have liked to talk about it with more recent people and other composers. Also just talk more about the actual music and instrument use.
Three things i would have liked to learn more about in my english classes so far are probably first writting different type of essays. By this i mean practicing writting persuasive, informative, and etc a little more. Second, I would have liked to learned about history of english and learn about how out language was created. Finally, I liked to learn more about vocab because i don't think any of my english class so far had a vocab section.
looking back on my 4 year of highschool i wish that i would have learned more technical writing such as used in science and math fields. Also i wish that we would have mastered a computer typing class so that our typing was at a minimum Word per minute. finally i wish that we wuold have learned more about speed reading and how to read faster as well as get necessary information from a section
Throughout all four years of my english class i would like to have learned how to write an essay that is organized but effective. I essays always seem to be unorganized. Also reading books that are more interesting would have been nice. I feel like it would have taught me to enjoy reading rather than dreading it because it feels like a class assignment. Learning about the history of english would have been cool. Like popular authors. But other than that there isn't much i wish i had learned. i feel like i covered most if it throughout all four years of english.
During four high school years of my English classes, I learned a lot of things. But I would like to have learned more about is writing in other people's view. That means, when I read a book and write about the essay, I would think more about characters view and mind. Also I would take some more times and read a book because, I regret that I skipped lots of pat from the book that I should read. Other thing that I want to learned more about is how to write well. Any of writing. I took four English classes with four different teachers but your class was the best. I can tell.
I loved English all through high school. I would liked to have learned more about writing poems and short stories because if i cannot pursue art i would like to be a writer and i think a broader background needs to be required in such things to graduate or it should at least be included. I would also have liked to learn more about great writers and composers that established what we know today to be good in our standards and compare them to who we think are good and maybe remix their songs or find a pattern in the music of then and now. I would also have liked to learn about how to write a more structured paper when given a specific topic cause i seem to stray to other things when asked to think one specific way so i think this could help, i don't use webs or anything cause i think they are a waste of time and once you look at them, you lose all your creativity.
I would have liked to learn more about the classics, such as Shakespeare or Ernest Hemingway. I like to read classics that other people read and talk about so I know about the story and most times the books that are classics are classics for a reason. I also would have liked to work more on poetry, so writing poems and other works or art will not be so hard. Also i think it will allow me to express my feelings or other things more clearly, because of my word choice and such. Lastly i would have liked to learn more about essay writing skills for college purposes.
One major thing I wish we had spent time on in my english classes is to how pick books apart independently from a class situation. This has become very apparent to me this year because we have not done in class reading for Humanities so I have been doing a lot of reading on my own and do not feel that I get as much out of it as I did when I was having class discussions on a daily basis like in Pre-AP and Honors sophomore year. I get a lot of the main ideas but do not take time to think about syntax and the choices the author made specific to the novels.
There are many classics I didn't get the chance to read that I think should be built into every high school english class (someone priorly mentioned this) but more specifically I would have liked to go into college having read the fundamental novels like Orwell's 1984. I think even classes like humanities should at least read one book because college courses are so heavily focused on reading and understanding literature.
Lastly I would have liked to learn more about foreign authors and read novels that don't fit the typical american standard. Once I spent more time reading on my own I felt like I couldn't comprehend russian or german literature like I was taught to read American novels. I think that more time could be spent reading important authors like Nabakov and Ayn Rand who have a lot to offer that's different from american authors and gives students a more historical perspective.
Most of all, I wish I’d been taught how to speed up my writing process. Most of the writing process is ignored as a subject for instruction already, but I especially wish I’d been told how to finish my writing pieces faster. It took me a good twenty minutes just to START with this blog for goodness’ sake. Sometimes I spend hours writing an essay that could have been finished in a fraction of the time. Speed’s always been a thorn in my literary side.
Worse, many of those essays I would spend unnecessary hours crafting would come out dry and boring. I would hate reading my own work after I’d finished it. I wish I’d been told how to keep my writing interesting to absorb. Especially in scholarly papers. Those are dull.
Learning how to write reviews would have been useful also. Better yet would have been being taught how to watch a movie or read a book with the intention of reviewing it later. I would find myself having watched a movie for my English class, and then realize that I didn’t remember enough of the film’s details to pen a good review.
My main difficulties with English has always been writing essays. I take far too long to write them, and sometimes it is difficult for me to even get started. I would even avoid writing essays at all costs. I think If I would've just had more practice I would be better at expressing my ideas. In my 4 years of high school, maybe more informal, short essays would have done some good. Another thing that I feel wasn't addressed well in high school is vocabulary. We did a little bit freshman year and for one semester sophomore year, but it pretty much stopped there. A third thing that I am absolutely terrible at is scanning, whether it be short essays, novels, or text books. In college we will be given so many reading materials that we wont have time to read every single word through. I believe it would be beneficial to learn how to scan through readings and pinpoint important information.
Well one thing is I wish we had read better books. Because some of them like "This Boy's Life", or "Into the wild", I just did not enjoy (no offense to Mr.Green or Ms.Traxler, I love them both). I would have liked to learn more about how to conclude an essay better too, because my essays always end up dieing terrible deaths when I try to finish them properly. I would also have liked to have done more Shakespeare because I really enjoy it, even if I don't always understand it. Other than that I really have no complaints about my English classes, because I've had pretty good teachers throughout, so thanks Mr.Thach, Mr.Green, Ms.Traxler, and Mr.Schindler! (and Mrs.Fondale from Northwood, she was awesome.)
In my 4 years of English there are a few things I wish I would've taken interest to and learned. I wanted to learn better thought processing through writing papers. I also wanted to learn more about creative writing and advanced essays. I probably wont study over the summer but next year when Im in college Ill do my best to learn new english processes and organization.
The first thing I would like to have learned more about during my four years of English classes would be more about the classics in general. I would've liked to read more I guess. There are a lot of classics that I haven't read yet, not Shakespeare but regular books in general, with good stories. I would've liked to read interesting ones, not boring ones. Another thing I wanted to learn about would be how to write better. I feel like we didn't really go over that, or do very many exercises that would've helped me the last four years. It would make writing papers much easier. The last thing I wanted to learn would be how to apply critical theories to reading books. For example Marxism, Deconstructionism and Feminism. This way I can apply each of the critical theories, and learn a lot.
Three things that I could have learned over the past four years of english classes would have to be learning about writing papers and essays. I also with i could have learned about editing the papers to create a better final draft. The second thing I would want to learn about would be more of the musical periods, in humanities class. This class has helped me understand music better and if we had learned more about the periods this understanding could have been developed. The last thing I wish i could have learned would be how to make writing more fun. I feel that writing an essay is a lot of work and is boring. If i had enjoyed writing these essays they may have had better grades and english class may have been easier over the course of the past four years.
My last four years of English have been alright. My freshman and sophmore years were pretty worthless, but last year with Prudence Hockley and this year this you Shindig were amazing. Last year Prudence challenged me more than i have ever been challenged in any other academic class. This year we have covered so many different aspects of art and opera that I have accumulated such a strong base in the subject of humanities. Some things i wish i would of covered are learning how to write different essay types. I know how to write basic essays, but learning more complicated, analytical essays would of been helpful for college. Also, I would of liked to learn more about shakespeare and how he was inspired to write what he did over the years. Thirdly, I would of liked to learn more about greek roots, and how to pick them out in words so i can have a deeper vocabulary.
Well actually most of my English classes focused on Shakespeare and the main curriculum books that everyone had to read... like TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD.... I KNOW WHY THE CAGE BIRD SINGS..... GREAT GATSBY.... etc. So one of the things that i would have liked to have done is read a book that pertains to NOW. Something new, something that no other class has read before. I also wish we could have done more projects with art or something that would have helped us understand what we were reading But most of all, I wish we could do things that as Students we were interested in doing. Like reading logs, or projects on us, ours life as a teenager, music and all those cool things that are in our everyday life but that we never EVER do!!!!
One major thing that I would of wanted to know about is about how to write papers and how to write them well. I don't really care about speed writing I just want to be able to write a good essay if I take the time to write it. I want to be able to put all my thoughts on the paper in a organized manner and have people like my writing. Another thing that I would of liked to learn more of is Macbeth. I learned a lot about it in 11th grade but I liked it a lot and would of liked to know more. One final thing I would like to know more about is vocabulary. My vocabulary sucks so I want to work on it. Maybe do some more vocab work on my own but it just sucks a lot so I would want to improve it.
Considering I haven't actually had four years of high school English classes, I don't really know what has been taught earlier. But from the two English classes I do have, I don't think there's been enough focus on the language itself and how to analyze sentences. Also, there could be more focus on how to write things such as applications. In English 11, there is a lot of focus on literature, and I think instead of reading all the books that are required, you could read sections from each book and talk about the story. This would give you more time to learn how to write essays and how to improve your language and learn about more authors and books.
Over the past four years of high school I think that I have actually learned MORE than I ever expected, or had wanted to. I actually wish that I took more Spanish this year but I didn't have room for that in my schedule. Right now I intern a 3rd grade classroom and I have to speak in Spanish but I don't remember much of the past 3 years. I would like to learn more about literature because people are always talking about it and I'm just sitting there wondering what is going on. Like Mark Twain, I don't even know who that is and I feel like I should. The last thing that I wish I could have done is drama or some other electives. I have just been doing core classes and my nevac class takes up a bunch of my time. I really do wish that I had done drama when I was younger because I have a lot of personality and that might have been a good alternate.
In my English classes I would have liked to do more Shakespeare. It's one of those collection of works where I find it best explored in a class discussion dynamic, and if you can get into those texts then I have found them very rewarding. Also more critical reading, like the ability to find the meaning in whatever one is reading and be able to synthesize it into a coherent essay. The third thing I would have liked more would be projects other than essays, because you still get to explore the texts but in a fun and not too stressful way.
During my four years of english i would have liked to learn more about different authors, because mostly we just stuck with the traditional writers. I would also have liked to learn about vocabulary, because we stopped doing that after 7th grade. The last thing that i would like to learn was speed reading because i think that would be a good skill to have.
I would like to be able to write papers better, I never seemed to be able to get all my thoughts down on paper with the right words. Another thing is I would like to be able to comprehend what I am reading better. Whenever I read its like I just look at the words and hardly ever am able to visualize and remember what's going on. Finally I would like to be able to write poems better because whenever I had to write one I couldn't find the right words and phrases to use to make it sound good and rhyme.
There are many things I would liked to have learned or expanded on in high school English. I would like to have worked on 1984 in class which I read on my own. I would also liked to have worked more on philosophy, especially the superman theory and existentialism because you can never learn too much about existentialism. I also need work on grammar to speak good with language. Those are some things that I would have liked to learn or expand on in high school English.
I would have liked to have read better books. During all of my four years we read books I didn't really enjoy like Mice of Men and Dr Jekyle and Mr Hyde. I also would have liked to learn more about poetry. During Sophomore year we were going to do a section about poetry but then the other unit before it ran too long so we didn't get a chance to do poetry. Now i have no idea how to write poems. Except for this year in humanities i would have loved to incorporate more theatre into the other three years. Theatre is something that i really love and getting to learn more about operas, ballets, straight shows, musicals etc.. That is the exciting part about literature for me.
One of the things that I would have liked to learn more about in English during High School is essay writing. I learned a lot during sophomore year in honors English. I think that it is important to know how to write a good essay and analyze books. Writing good theses and identifying themes in books is important and I wish I had done more of it in Junior and Senior year.Another thing I would have liked to learn more about involves reading books. I would have liked to have read more Shakespeare and other literary classics. I feel like this year I got behind my peers by not reading any books. The third thing that I would have liked to learn more about is poetry. I like poetry a lot and I feel like we did a little on it Freshman and Sophomore year but other than that we touched upon the subject only lightly. Poetry is an important area to have understanding in and I really like reading poetry.
1. I would have liked to have worked more on my grammar and expanding my vocabulary. I am a pretty avid reader but I feel like despite the fact that i have read upwards of a hundred books, my vocabulary has barely expanded at all. i think that having a large and expressive vocabulary is an important life skill and not something that just pertains to English class. 2. I wish that we had worked on some creative writing in general English. I did not have room in my schedule to take creative writing as a class so i wish that it could have been incorporated into regular English classes. Working on more obscure types of writing, such as stream of consciousness, would have helped me expand my skills as a writer. 3. I would have liked to have read more books and become better at essay writing. I read a lot of books in class in my 10th grade honors English class but when i entered into the regular level English classes it seemed that we stopped reading as much. As a result I haven't really been able to expand my skills in analyzing text and identifying more hidden symbolism.
Regan McComb period 6 Three things I would have liked to learn throughout my four years of high school would be to expand my vocabulary and use more sophisticated words to make my writing sound more professional. Also I would have liked to learn to write poetry better and be more creative. Lastly i would have liked to learn how to make my essays flow better and not be so choppy and unorganized. Thats about it.
Three things I would've liked to have learned more about are writing poems, reading and writing proper English essays, and more on opera's, play's, and symphony's. I know the basics on writing poems but nothing other than making it rhyme. I would've liked to have learned how to write more in-depth, professional poems. Plus, the essays, I can write the body and some times the concluding paragraph but I was never really taught how to write the introductory paragraph. Finally, I loved learning about the opera's and other things like that, because I think it is interesting that the composer and writer of them lived so long ago but they created a piece of work that is still cherished to this day... Plus, learning how to understand the hidden meanings in the words and music was very interesting. I would've loved to have been doing this throughout my high school English career. Just knowing that someone thought outside of the box and published their piece of art, even though there was a lot of controversy over it and they were usually not popular right away. Shows me that the more courage and faith you have in yourself the more of a difference you can make.
I would have liked to study vocabulary and roots more because I cannot use interesting language and the vocab in the SAT killed my scores. I would have also liked to study books that the students pick I guess that would be books that I picked because I find that I get bored or frustrated with books chosen by teachers in the past. I would also would liked to have learned the construction of perfect open yet not broad thesis statements. I have had little experience however not enough and these would help greatly for college
Three things I would liked to have learned more about would be how to make an essay interesting, how to better understand shakespeare, and how to better absorb information from books. Whenever i've written essays for school, they're always seemed stale and boring, and I never had to write them enough to learn how to make them interesting and hook your interest. With shakespeare, I was never able to really understand it, except when one little section was analyzed and translated for me. With books, I always had a hard time reading a book then answering questions afterwards. I always thought there should be a better way to take in the information from the book.
1) the first thing is I wish that we could have read more international literature. I felt like almost all of the books we read were by English or American authors. It would have been nice to have some different perspectives. 2) I wish we could have done more writing that was less literature analysis. 9th 10th and 11th grade especially all only taught analytical essays, which are useful but are still only one of many types of essays. I could have used more experience in writing opinion or persuasive essays. 3) I wish there had been more focus on how to express your own ideas rather than what ideas should be your own. maybe this is just me, but I felt like every time I read a book, the teacher would tell me what it all meant and then that was what I was supposed to write about. especially in 10th and 11th grade, If I didn't write my essay on what the teacher said I should or if I interpreted it differently, even though I could prove my idea in my essay, I always got a lower grade if I had an idead different than my teacher's.
Three things that i wish i would have learned... lets see. I wish that i would have been tought how to do poetry better because you wouldnt think how much you actually need to use peotry! Another thing that i wish i could have learned would be a wider vocabulary, you know so i can sound more sophisticated now that i am getting older : ) the last thing i wish i could have learned more of would be SPELLING. To this very day i have some real issues with spelling, and yes it is sad. I guess that falls into vocabulary too but whatever, i need to spell better!!
When I look back and try to find three things I wish I would have learned more about, I find it a daunting task. If I had a choice I would learn about everything more. It would be stupid for me to only say three things. Not only that, but I got really lucky when it came to English classes. My teachers actually wanted to teach life lessons and values rather than speak facts. I suppose one of the things that I would have liked to learn is how to get motivated to do all my homework in English; I understood what was going on, I just didn't care enough to put it on paper. I fell short on The Art History Part I. I actually got really lazy and didn't learn much about it, and when I did Part II, I regretted not learning more about early art. I found it fascinating how something so primitive (in a sense) can be manipulated into beauty and then called art. That is pretty much all I can think to say... so I suppose my last thing that I wish I could have learned in English over the last four years is the ability to ramble on about something for a ridiculous amount of time to get a solid point across.
If there was three things that I would have liked to learn more on in my past four years of english would have to start with reading more fluent. I think that the reason most kids do not read books is because they arent very good at reading. If we spent more time on learning how to read faster or more fluent, many kids would start picking up books. Another thing i wish i had learned more on was how towrite a good essay every time. I would have liked to have some how to discuss the importance of specific parts of essays so that I could write a more powerful essay. The third thing I think could be better is reading books that are American History. When i Hear books like 1984 and Huck Finn, I get excited, I want to hear what all the talk is about. But when its books like The House on Mango Street, I've already lost interest before even picking up the book.
Three things that I feel would be beneficial to me in the last few years of english are first off grammer. I don't really want to learn it now, but my Dad is always correcting me and I never know that I'm wrong. ALSO that whole SAT grammer section..FAILED IT. Another thing I would have liked to learn more of is a wider variety of reading. Instead of only reading certain classics (which are mostly good) I would have liked to read more modern books that can apply to us. Its hard to engage yourself in something so different. Lastly I hate poetry, and maybe it's because I never had it taught to me well enough or had any good experiences with it. Oh ps we should watch Tristan and Isolde..k cool.
In the last few years of english the things that I feel weren't taught to us very well are first off vocabulary. Specifically latin and greek roots. If you know those, you can pretty much figure out any big word. Grammer and punctuation. I honestly don't know the right place to put a semi colon or when to say "who" or "whom". Also, I would do less poetry and more writing. Poetry units are pointless. I feel like writing essays about real issues will get me alot further than writing a poem.
Over the past four years of high school I really wish we had read more classic books. It seems like in English classes we focus so much on Shakespeare when there are so many other books and authors that we could have read. I do think Shakespeare is very important to study and learn but there are many other authors who's writing is equally relevant. Second I wish there had been more time spent on creative and college level writing. Up until half way through our Junior year we were still being taught the five paragraph essay method and then when we began to prepare for our college essays all of that went out the window and we were left unprepared for the type of writing they wanted. Last i wish we could have had more time interpreting what we were reading, most specifically with Shakespeare. There is so much meaning behind his writing but we hardly spent any time interpreting or reading between the lines. We spent so much time assigning people to read parts and so much time reading language that can be hard to understand and often we missed big parts because of that.
I was never very good at writing a strong introduction that could pull in the reader and intrigue them. This is one of three things that I want to improve on and wish that I had spent more time on in English class. The second area that I would like to improve on is my ability to construct an effective and organized paper that conveys a given idea. The third thing I wanted to learn more about is writing poems. For our looking at art project, I had to write a poem. I didn't expect it to be anywhere near as hard or time consuming as it was. By learning a bit more about each of these areas, I will feel more confident in my writing abilities.
Over the last four years of english I would have liked to learn more about writing papers. When I say that i would like to have learned how to translate my thoughts better, and how to conclude better. Second i would like to have had a better vocab, in college i would like to be able to use better words for writing or anything else. Lastly i would like to have focused more on analyzing literature, and focus on the different meaning poems or whatever other kind of reading it may be can mean besides the overall meaning.
Some things I wish I could have learned more about is just simple grammar. Such as having refreshers on the basics like whether a period comes after the comma or a parentheses. I also wish In some of my classes we could have read some more popular books and discussed them instead of sticking to what was on the suggested reading list like a clockwork orange or other complex books but are very relatable to where we are in our lives as teenagers. Finally I would have liked to focus on verbal communications and simply using a broader more professional vocabulary in everyday conversations or presentations.
Over the past four years of high school I was lucky to have 4 very different english teachers who all had very different learning styles, so learning different things was never an issue. However, I do wish I learned more about how to write really good poems and short stories. I enjoy reading well written ones and I think it would be a lot of fun to be able to do that also. I also wish I could learn to write better intro and concluding paragraphs in papers. It's something I always have struggled with but everyone knows that if those two paragraphs are strong it can make a paper. Finally the third thing I wish I learned more about would be being able to expand my vocabulary to write at more of a college level.
I have really enjoyed English as a subject over the past four years however there were still a few changes I could come up with. Firstly I would have liked to read more novels each year. I thought we spent too much time reviewing each novel when it would have been more interesting to read a variety of different stories. Next I would have liked the opportunity to be a little more creative while writing with less structured prompts and more open topics to write about. Lastly I would have liked to learn more about authors, composers and what inspired their works and styles.
Somethings I would have liked to have learned more about in English over the past four years would have been more about the ages of writing in america and what events influenced the authors at the time they wrote their books. Also I would have liked to learned more about how to organize and plan for writing a really long 5-10 page papper/essay. Also I wish we would have done a unit on early lititure from ancient cities of knownledge such as baghdad and athens, im really interested in what these authors have to write about.
Looking back on my four years of English throughout high school there are many things I wish we could have focused on more. Some of the things that come to mind first are getting a better idea of different types of essays and how to right them quick and efficiently but still have it be quality work. I also wish we could have focused on incorporating similar questions and vocabulary that was asked on the SATs and ACTs into everyday class to help prepare us for these tests. Thirdly I would have liked to read more pop culture books because it is easier to read books that are interesting than it is to read historical or famous books that arent intriguing to me.
Over the years I would have liked to know more about how to make a good story and keep the reader interested. I could write a story but it always seem too short or got boring. Another thing I wanted to learn was how to create a good hook at the start of a book or paper. I went over it throughout the years but never seem to get it right. I also wish I was a better speller because sometimes I change the word that is exciting to a word I know how to spell and boring. I think if I just practice over the years I would have been better at it, plus I thing typing text with all the short cuts like LOL doesn't help either.
I wish I could have learned to write more efficiently. I am a competent writer but it takes me forever to pull a paper together. I also would have liked to have spent time on something other than poetry in 10th grade. I thought it was dumb and pointless. I also I wish that I could have been exposed to more books, rather than beating the same book over and over again. it got ridiculous.
The things I would have wanted to learn more about in English would have to have been these: I would have wanted to focus on how to write a more attractive paper, with more literary fluency, depth, and a more educated structure, that would be pleasant to read as it is conveying a point. Organization is key as well, not only the paper's structure, but how the words themselves can be seamlessly constructed to create writing that can present something tangible, or visible to the reader. The second would be more of an emphasis on expanding my vocabulary and knowledge of words. The use of words to me would be as important as its structure or the point of the paper. Last would have been to work on how to organize for longer papers without too much reiteration. It would be beneficial for the lengthy college papers and essays.
63 comments:
Cristina Rice
Period 2
Three things I would like to have learned more about is being able to organize my thoughts when writing a paper. Maybe a chart or web but something that works for me that is fast and effective. Another thing I wish I learned about is Shakespeare. It is so hard to understand what he is writing about. I also don't a lot about him. A lot of famous writers or composers I know about but I don't know when Shakespeare died or anything about his personality. Also I wish how to make writing and English easier for me. I don't find it very interesting or fun and I wish I found something in it that made me like it. I guess I can't like everything.
Heather Thomas
Period 2
Over the past four years I wish I could have learned more about how to write papers better and faster (I know Cristina wrote that too but it was my idea too). We learn the basics every year but i wish we learned how to write in the college level like our senior year. I also wish we learned how to write in cursive better and more clear. I learned only a little when i was younger so I wished we went over for a bit in high school so kids had better writing. I also wish I learned more about Tristan and Isole... I think we should watch the movie in class next week and compare the differences between Wagner's opera and the movie. That seems like a great idea!
Leticia Lopez Period 4
What i wanted to learn more about? Well, i dont know i guess i would've wanted to read more of the books that i wanted rather than ones that really didnt interest me. like That one with the dude who ends up dying in Alaska..dont get me started with that crap. Or all the shakespeare stuff. i hate that. He say the same thing over n over and i hate it. another thing that i would rather have done was less writing on stuff that never seemed important to me. As much as i would want to talk about the pros n cons of Romeo and Juliet, i woud rather write about things that gave meaning to life now rather then way back when. Also i would like it if there would be more of a like i dont know. the writing forms of technically what you need. other than WASL you dont need to know about it anything more. so yeah.
Phillip Foshee
period 6
Overall i believe that in the last 4 years of highschool english i have leanred allot. The main thing I could have larned more about would be grammer and punctuation. I feel that there are still times in my highschool writing where i forget where to put proper punctuation. I also wish That they wouldnt teach shakespear in school. The only reason i like to get taught shakespear is because it puts me to sleep. Finally the last thing i would have liked to learn would have been, how to be more profeshinal when typeing emails. Overall i have loved my highschool english especially with you MR SCHINDLER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kayla Aldridge
Period 6
I have learned a lot over the past three years of English however there are something I would have liked to learn more about. My junior year is really the only year I did a lot of writing and that is something I wish i would have focused on more. I wanted to expand on writing and organizing my thoughts on paper however unfortunately i didn't do a whole lot of writing essays this year. I also wish i would have expanded my vocabulary more to be able to write at a college level. I also would have liked to learn how to analyze literature better, that is something i some what struggled with my junior year and wanted to get better at.
Rebecca Taicz
Period 6
I would have loved to learn more about getting the skeleton of an essay down in a shorter amount of time, so that I can just flesh it out later. I would have also liked to learn more to help improve my intro and conclusion paragraphs. It seems every time I improve on one of them, the other needs some more work. I also would have like to read some more books. For the most part, I liked the selection of books that the teachers picked out, except for a few. But, being a fast reader, I often found myself ahead of the class or finishing the portion early so that the book either seemed to drag on or so that by the end of the year we had only read a couple. I wish we had a system where it was more like a list of books you had to read, and then report/go more in depth on, et. certera. Overall it was pretty good i guess.
Mandi DeLaVergne
Period 6
Over the past four years of high school I would have liked to expand my vocabulary more. I wish I knew more words in order to write better and more interesting papers. I also would have liked to work more on the process of writing a paper instead of just going ahead and writing it. I would have liked to hear good tips about writing papers more often. Lastly I wish that I learned how to open paragraphs and papers better and how to overall write more interesting things. Otherwise I believe that I have learned a great deal in high school and I cant wait to continue next year in college.
THANKS SCHINDLER!
Bryttany Enge, Period 6
One thing I wish I could have spent more time learning about in English is vocabulary. I wish I could have expanded my vocabulary a little bit more over the years.
Another thing I wished I learned more about over the past four years is how to make an opening statement that would attract the reader. I feel like I never quite learned how to write a more interesting opening statement or a thesis. This would have made writing college essays much easier.
Thirdly, I wish I could have developed my public speaking more in my English classes over the past four years. Public speaking is a vital skill to have in the future for college and future careers. I think developing public speaking should be an important part of English class’ agenda.
The first thing that I would've wanted to learn more about is probably vocab. I think we only touched on it a little and i wish we would have expanded on it more, a little each year. I think it also would've helped me become a better writer. Another thing that I wish we did more of was probably reading more interesting books instead of the same old literature ones. I wish we could've gotten to read more modern ones maybe about politics or the environment. Things more like that would have been nice to learn about. The last thing I could think of to learn more about would be how to write longer papers like the ones we'll have to do in college or how o outline them so it won't be as much as a shock next year. Those things probably would've helped a little more and made me more interested in learning about english.
Kyle Glaser
Period 2
One of the three things that I had more about was I would be able to write papers in a more effective way. I would have liked to learn about writing persuasive more since that will be used in no matter what type of work you go into. If I become a band teacher I could use this type of essay to make the administration buy new instruments or uniforms. I would have also liked to learn vocabulary. A bigger vocabulary would have helped me write essays but it also would have helped me to use different words in songs and poems that I write. I would have also liked if we had more biographies and autobiographies in english class. I really enjoy this type of writing and would have been interesting to study in class.
Thanks Schin Schin!
Bergen Anderson per. 2
Over the last four years English has been one of my favorite subjects, however there are some things I wish we focused more on. I wish we focused more on poetry. We did some last year but that is one of my favorite forms of writing. I also wished we linked more visual creation with writing. I love art projects and that helps me have ideas the help me have more creative writing abilities. Lastly, along with Heather I would like to learn more about Tristan and Isolde. It has been one of my favorite stories told throughout opera that we have discussed and I think seeing modern day movies like we did with Midsummer's nights Dream helps my generation relate and understand the story more.
Kenna Campbell
Period 6
1. I would have liked to learn more latin roots and stuff and be able to actually use it. We learned some of the basics and we learned more but never talked about them again. I would like to be able to see a word and find the roots and figure out what it means.
2. I wish we had more poetry units so we could get more fluent in writing it. Also so we could interpret poems easier because they can be confusing with all the symbolism in the lines.
3. I would have liked to go more into classical composers and actual musicianship with instrumentals. I liked when we talked about Mozart and his music and would have liked to talk about it with more recent people and other composers. Also just talk more about the actual music and instrument use.
Chris Hong
Period 6
Three things i would have liked to learn more about in my english classes so far are probably first writting different type of essays. By this i mean practicing writting persuasive, informative, and etc a little more. Second, I would have liked to learned about history of english and learn about how out language was created. Finally, I liked to learn more about vocab because i don't think any of my english class so far had a vocab section.
Matt MacDougall
per 4
looking back on my 4 year of highschool i wish that i would have learned more technical writing such as used in science and math fields. Also i wish that we would have mastered a computer typing class so that our typing was at a minimum Word per minute. finally i wish that we wuold have learned more about speed reading and how to read faster as well as get necessary information from a section
Karin Ochsner
Period 4
Throughout all four years of my english class i would like to have learned how to write an essay that is organized but effective. I essays always seem to be unorganized. Also reading books that are more interesting would have been nice. I feel like it would have taught me to enjoy reading rather than dreading it because it feels like a class assignment. Learning about the history of english would have been cool. Like popular authors. But other than that there isn't much i wish i had learned. i feel like i covered most if it throughout all four years of english.
Jinny Kim Period 4
During four high school years of my English classes, I learned a lot of things. But I would like to have learned more about is writing in other people's view. That means, when I read a book and write about the essay, I would think more about characters view and mind. Also I would take some more times and read a book because, I regret that I skipped lots of pat from the book that I should read. Other thing that I want to learned more about is how to write well. Any of writing. I took four English classes with four different teachers but your class was the best. I can tell.
Erika Hodges
per. 2
I loved English all through high school. I would liked to have learned more about writing poems and short stories because if i cannot pursue art i would like to be a writer and i think a broader background needs to be required in such things to graduate or it should at least be included. I would also have liked to learn more about great writers and composers that established what we know today to be good in our standards and compare them to who we think are good and maybe remix their songs or find a pattern in the music of then and now. I would also have liked to learn about how to write a more structured paper when given a specific topic cause i seem to stray to other things when asked to think one specific way so i think this could help, i don't use webs or anything cause i think they are a waste of time and once you look at them, you lose all your creativity.
andrew song period 6
I would have liked to learn more about the classics, such as Shakespeare or Ernest Hemingway. I like to read classics that other people read and talk about so I know about the story and most times the books that are classics are classics for a reason. I also would have liked to work more on poetry, so writing poems and other works or art will not be so hard. Also i think it will allow me to express my feelings or other things more clearly, because of my word choice and such. Lastly i would have liked to learn more about essay writing skills for college purposes.
One major thing I wish we had spent time on in my english classes is to how pick books apart independently from a class situation. This has become very apparent to me this year because we have not done in class reading for Humanities so I have been doing a lot of reading on my own and do not feel that I get as much out of it as I did when I was having class discussions on a daily basis like in Pre-AP and Honors sophomore year. I get a lot of the main ideas but do not take time to think about syntax and the choices the author made specific to the novels.
There are many classics I didn't get the chance to read that I think should be built into every high school english class (someone priorly mentioned this) but more specifically I would have liked to go into college having read the fundamental novels like Orwell's 1984. I think even classes like humanities should at least read one book because college courses are so heavily focused on reading and understanding literature.
Lastly I would have liked to learn more about foreign authors and read novels that don't fit the typical american standard. Once I spent more time reading on my own I felt like I couldn't comprehend russian or german literature like I was taught to read American novels. I think that more time could be spent reading important authors like Nabakov and Ayn Rand who have a lot to offer that's different from american authors and gives students a more historical perspective.
Jordan Adam Per. 4
Most of all, I wish I’d been taught how to speed up my writing process. Most of the writing process is ignored as a subject for instruction already, but I especially wish I’d been told how to finish my writing pieces faster. It took me a good twenty minutes just to START with this blog for goodness’ sake. Sometimes I spend hours writing an essay that could have been finished in a fraction of the time. Speed’s always been a thorn in my literary side.
Worse, many of those essays I would spend unnecessary hours crafting would come out dry and boring. I would hate reading my own work after I’d finished it. I wish I’d been told how to keep my writing interesting to absorb. Especially in scholarly papers. Those are dull.
Learning how to write reviews would have been useful also. Better yet would have been being taught how to watch a movie or read a book with the intention of reviewing it later. I would find myself having watched a movie for my English class, and then realize that I didn’t remember enough of the film’s details to pen a good review.
Those all would have been good to learn.
Selena Swaim, per. 2
My main difficulties with English has always been writing essays. I take far too long to write them, and sometimes it is difficult for me to even get started. I would even avoid writing essays at all costs. I think If I would've just had more practice I would be better at expressing my ideas. In my 4 years of high school, maybe more informal, short essays would have done some good.
Another thing that I feel wasn't addressed well in high school is vocabulary. We did a little bit freshman year and for one semester sophomore year, but it pretty much stopped there.
A third thing that I am absolutely terrible at is scanning, whether it be short essays, novels, or text books. In college we will be given so many reading materials that we wont have time to read every single word through. I believe it would be beneficial to learn how to scan through readings and pinpoint important information.
Brian Penoyer
Period 2
Well one thing is I wish we had read better books. Because some of them like "This Boy's Life", or "Into the wild", I just did not enjoy (no offense to Mr.Green or Ms.Traxler, I love them both). I would have liked to learn more about how to conclude an essay better too, because my essays always end up dieing terrible deaths when I try to finish them properly. I would also have liked to have done more Shakespeare because I really enjoy it, even if I don't always understand it. Other than that I really have no complaints about my English classes, because I've had pretty good teachers throughout, so thanks Mr.Thach, Mr.Green, Ms.Traxler, and Mr.Schindler! (and Mrs.Fondale from Northwood, she was awesome.)
Brendan Cox
Period 2
In my 4 years of English there are a few things I wish I would've taken interest to and learned. I wanted to learn better thought processing through writing papers. I also wanted to learn more about creative writing and advanced essays. I probably wont study over the summer but next year when Im in college Ill do my best to learn new english processes and organization.
Michelle Le
period 2
The first thing I would like to have learned more about during my four years of English classes would be more about the classics in general. I would've liked to read more I guess. There are a lot of classics that I haven't read yet, not Shakespeare but regular books in general, with good stories. I would've liked to read interesting ones, not boring ones. Another thing I wanted to learn about would be how to write better. I feel like we didn't really go over that, or do very many exercises that would've helped me the last four years. It would make writing papers much easier. The last thing I wanted to learn would be how to apply critical theories to reading books. For example Marxism, Deconstructionism and Feminism. This way I can apply each of the critical theories, and learn a lot.
Kristina Thorson
per 2
Three things that I could have learned over the past four years of english classes would have to be learning about writing papers and essays. I also with i could have learned about editing the papers to create a better final draft. The second thing I would want to learn about would be more of the musical periods, in humanities class. This class has helped me understand music better and if we had learned more about the periods this understanding could have been developed. The last thing I wish i could have learned would be how to make writing more fun. I feel that writing an essay is a lot of work and is boring. If i had enjoyed writing these essays they may have had better grades and english class may have been easier over the course of the past four years.
Joel Maltos
P-4
My last four years of English have been alright. My freshman and sophmore years were pretty worthless, but last year with Prudence Hockley and this year this you Shindig were amazing. Last year Prudence challenged me more than i have ever been challenged in any other academic class. This year we have covered so many different aspects of art and opera that I have accumulated such a strong base in the subject of humanities. Some things i wish i would of covered are learning how to write different essay types. I know how to write basic essays, but learning more complicated, analytical essays would of been helpful for college. Also, I would of liked to learn more about shakespeare and how he was inspired to write what he did over the years. Thirdly, I would of liked to learn more about greek roots, and how to pick them out in words so i can have a deeper vocabulary.
Tia Bailey P.4
Well actually most of my English classes focused on Shakespeare and the main curriculum books that everyone had to read... like TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD.... I KNOW WHY THE CAGE BIRD SINGS..... GREAT GATSBY.... etc.
So one of the things that i would have liked to have done is read a book that pertains to NOW. Something new, something that no other class has read before.
I also wish we could have done more projects with art or something that would have helped us understand what we were reading
But most of all, I wish we could do things that as Students we were interested in doing. Like reading logs, or projects on us, ours life as a teenager, music and all those cool things that are in our everyday life but that we never EVER do!!!!
Mike Smolkowski Period 4
One major thing that I would of wanted to know about is about how to write papers and how to write them well. I don't really care about speed writing I just want to be able to write a good essay if I take the time to write it. I want to be able to put all my thoughts on the paper in a organized manner and have people like my writing. Another thing that I would of liked to learn more of is Macbeth. I learned a lot about it in 11th grade but I liked it a lot and would of liked to know more. One final thing I would like to know more about is vocabulary. My vocabulary sucks so I want to work on it. Maybe do some more vocab work on my own but it just sucks a lot so I would want to improve it.
Christin Thrane
Period 4
Considering I haven't actually had four years of high school English classes, I don't really know what has been taught earlier. But from the two English classes I do have, I don't think there's been enough focus on the language itself and how to analyze sentences. Also, there could be more focus on how to write things such as applications. In English 11, there is a lot of focus on literature, and I think instead of reading all the books that are required, you could read sections from each book and talk about the story. This would give you more time to learn how to write essays and how to improve your language and learn about more authors and books.
Lacey Helmuth
period 4
Over the past four years of high school I think that I have actually learned MORE than I ever expected, or had wanted to. I actually wish that I took more Spanish this year but I didn't have room for that in my schedule. Right now I intern a 3rd grade classroom and I have to speak in Spanish but I don't remember much of the past 3 years. I would like to learn more about literature because people are always talking about it and I'm just sitting there wondering what is going on. Like Mark Twain, I don't even know who that is and I feel like I should. The last thing that I wish I could have done is drama or some other electives. I have just been doing core classes and my nevac class takes up a bunch of my time. I really do wish that I had done drama when I was younger because I have a lot of personality and that might have been a good alternate.
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P-4
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Helen Wiltsey
Period 4
In my English classes I would have liked to do more Shakespeare. It's one of those collection of works where I find it best explored in a class discussion dynamic, and if you can get into those texts then I have found them very rewarding. Also more critical reading, like the ability to find the meaning in whatever one is reading and be able to synthesize it into a coherent essay. The third thing I would have liked more would be projects other than essays, because you still get to explore the texts but in a fun and not too stressful way.
Stuart Dransfield
Period 4
During my four years of english i would have liked to learn more about different authors, because mostly we just stuck with the traditional writers. I would also have liked to learn about vocabulary, because we stopped doing that after 7th grade. The last thing that i would like to learn was speed reading because i think that would be a good skill to have.
Preston Longoni Period 4
I would like to be able to write papers better, I never seemed to be able to get all my thoughts down on paper with the right words. Another thing is I would like to be able to comprehend what I am reading better. Whenever I read its like I just look at the words and hardly ever am able to visualize and remember what's going on. Finally I would like to be able to write poems better because whenever I had to write one I couldn't find the right words and phrases to use to make it sound good and rhyme.
Andrew Pilgrim Period 4
There are many things I would liked to have learned or expanded on in high school English. I would like to have worked on 1984 in class which I read on my own. I would also liked to have worked more on philosophy, especially the superman theory and existentialism because you can never learn too much about existentialism. I also need work on grammar to speak good with language. Those are some things that I would have liked to learn or expand on in high school English.
Alyssa De Hoop
Period 4
I would have liked to have read better books. During all of my four years we read books I didn't really enjoy like Mice of Men and Dr Jekyle and Mr Hyde. I also would have liked to learn more about poetry. During Sophomore year we were going to do a section about poetry but then the other unit before it ran too long so we didn't get a chance to do poetry. Now i have no idea how to write poems. Except for this year in humanities i would have loved to incorporate more theatre into the other three years. Theatre is something that i really love and getting to learn more about operas, ballets, straight shows, musicals etc.. That is the exciting part about literature for me.
Shae Hurst Period 6
One of the things that I would have liked to learn more about in English during High School is essay writing. I learned a lot during sophomore year in honors English. I think that it is important to know how to write a good essay and analyze books. Writing good theses and identifying themes in books is important and I wish I had done more of it in Junior and Senior year.Another thing I would have liked to learn more about involves reading books. I would have liked to have read more Shakespeare and other literary classics. I feel like this year I got behind my peers by not reading any books. The third thing that I would have liked to learn more about is poetry. I like poetry a lot and I feel like we did a little on it Freshman and Sophomore year but other than that we touched upon the subject only lightly. Poetry is an important area to have understanding in and I really like reading poetry.
Mackenzie Engel
Period 6
1. I would have liked to have worked more on my grammar and expanding my vocabulary. I am a pretty avid reader but I feel like despite the fact that i have read upwards of a hundred books, my vocabulary has barely expanded at all. i think that having a large and expressive vocabulary is an important life skill and not something that just pertains to English class.
2. I wish that we had worked on some creative writing in general English. I did not have room in my schedule to take creative writing as a class so i wish that it could have been incorporated into regular English classes. Working on more obscure types of writing, such as stream of consciousness, would have helped me expand my skills as a writer.
3. I would have liked to have read more books and become better at essay writing. I read a lot of books in class in my 10th grade honors English class but when i entered into the regular level English classes it seemed that we stopped reading as much. As a result I haven't really been able to expand my skills in analyzing text and identifying more hidden symbolism.
Talia Cowan per 6
1)i wish i learned more about how to manipulate the english language, with metaphors or in poems.
2)I don't know what else i would want to learn...maybe how to interpret our readings into images or artistic representations.
3) doing more comedy type things,, or just lighter material. serious and dark things are fascinating but there is the need for relief.
Regan McComb period 6
Three things I would have liked to learn throughout my four years of high school would be to expand my vocabulary and use more sophisticated words to make my writing sound more professional. Also I would have liked to learn to write poetry better and be more creative. Lastly i would have liked to learn how to make my essays flow better and not be so choppy and unorganized. Thats about it.
Sara McCallum
Period 6
Three things I would've liked to have learned more about are writing poems, reading and writing proper English essays, and more on opera's, play's, and symphony's. I know the basics on writing poems but nothing other than making it rhyme. I would've liked to have learned how to write more in-depth, professional poems. Plus, the essays, I can write the body and some times the concluding paragraph but I was never really taught how to write the introductory paragraph. Finally, I loved learning about the opera's and other things like that, because I think it is interesting that the composer and writer of them lived so long ago but they created a piece of work that is still cherished to this day... Plus, learning how to understand the hidden meanings in the words and music was very interesting. I would've loved to have been doing this throughout my high school English career. Just knowing that someone thought outside of the box and published their piece of art, even though there was a lot of controversy over it and they were usually not popular right away. Shows me that the more courage and faith you have in yourself the more of a difference you can make.
Andrew Kemis Period 6
I would have liked to study vocabulary and roots more because I cannot use interesting language and the vocab in the SAT killed my scores.
I would have also liked to study books that the students pick I guess that would be books that I picked because I find that I get bored or frustrated with books chosen by teachers in the past.
I would also would liked to have learned the construction of perfect open yet not broad thesis statements. I have had little experience however not enough and these would help greatly for college
Jessica Karr, p.4
Three things I would liked to have learned more about would be how to make an essay interesting, how to better understand shakespeare, and how to better absorb information from books. Whenever i've written essays for school, they're always seemed stale and boring, and I never had to write them enough to learn how to make them interesting and hook your interest. With shakespeare, I was never able to really understand it, except when one little section was analyzed and translated for me. With books, I always had a hard time reading a book then answering questions afterwards. I always thought there should be a better way to take in the information from the book.
Megan Lowry per 2
1) the first thing is I wish that we could have read more international literature. I felt like almost all of the books we read were by English or American authors. It would have been nice to have some different perspectives.
2) I wish we could have done more writing that was less literature analysis. 9th 10th and 11th grade especially all only taught analytical essays, which are useful but are still only one of many types of essays. I could have used more experience in writing opinion or persuasive essays.
3) I wish there had been more focus on how to express your own ideas rather than what ideas should be your own. maybe this is just me, but I felt like every time I read a book, the teacher would tell me what it all meant and then that was what I was supposed to write about. especially in 10th and 11th grade, If I didn't write my essay on what the teacher said I should or if I interpreted it differently, even though I could prove my idea in my essay, I always got a lower grade if I had an idead different than my teacher's.
Sam Bellefeuille Period 6
Three things that i wish i would have learned... lets see. I wish that i would have been tought how to do poetry better because you wouldnt think how much you actually need to use peotry! Another thing that i wish i could have learned would be a wider vocabulary, you know so i can sound more sophisticated now that i am getting older : ) the last thing i wish i could have learned more of would be SPELLING. To this very day i have some real issues with spelling, and yes it is sad. I guess that falls into vocabulary too but whatever, i need to spell better!!
Melissa Nimon
p.2
When I look back and try to find three things I wish I would have learned more about, I find it a daunting task. If I had a choice I would learn about everything more. It would be stupid for me to only say three things. Not only that, but I got really lucky when it came to English classes. My teachers actually wanted to teach life lessons and values rather than speak facts. I suppose one of the things that I would have liked to learn is how to get motivated to do all my homework in English; I understood what was going on, I just didn't care enough to put it on paper. I fell short on The Art History Part I. I actually got really lazy and didn't learn much about it, and when I did Part II, I regretted not learning more about early art. I found it fascinating how something so primitive (in a sense) can be manipulated into beauty and then called art. That is pretty much all I can think to say... so I suppose my last thing that I wish I could have learned in English over the last four years is the ability to ramble on about something for a ridiculous amount of time to get a solid point across.
Clayton Butler
Period 2
If there was three things that I would have liked to learn more on in my past four years of english would have to start with reading more fluent. I think that the reason most kids do not read books is because they arent very good at reading. If we spent more time on learning how to read faster or more fluent, many kids would start picking up books.
Another thing i wish i had learned more on was how towrite a good essay every time. I would have liked to have some how to discuss the importance of specific parts of essays so that I could write a more powerful essay.
The third thing I think could be better is reading books that are American History. When i Hear books like 1984 and Huck Finn, I get excited, I want to hear what all the talk is about. But when its books like The House on Mango Street, I've already lost interest before even picking up the book.
Stephanie Bateman
period 2
Three things that I feel would be beneficial to me in the last few years of english are first off grammer. I don't really want to learn it now, but my Dad is always correcting me and I never know that I'm wrong. ALSO that whole SAT grammer section..FAILED IT. Another thing I would have liked to learn more of is a wider variety of reading. Instead of only reading certain classics (which are mostly good) I would have liked to read more modern books that can apply to us. Its hard to engage yourself in something so different. Lastly I hate poetry, and maybe it's because I never had it taught to me well enough or had any good experiences with it. Oh ps we should watch Tristan and Isolde..k cool.
Tanner Low
Period 4
In the last few years of english the things that I feel weren't taught to us very well are first off vocabulary. Specifically latin and greek roots. If you know those, you can pretty much figure out any big word. Grammer and punctuation. I honestly don't know the right place to put a semi colon or when to say "who" or "whom". Also, I would do less poetry and more writing. Poetry units are pointless. I feel like writing essays about real issues will get me alot further than writing a poem.
Sam Franklin per 6
Over the past four years of high school I really wish we had read more classic books. It seems like in English classes we focus so much on Shakespeare when there are so many other books and authors that we could have read. I do think Shakespeare is very important to study and learn but there are many other authors who's writing is equally relevant. Second I wish there had been more time spent on creative and college level writing. Up until half way through our Junior year we were still being taught the five paragraph essay method and then when we began to prepare for our college essays all of that went out the window and we were left unprepared for the type of writing they wanted. Last i wish we could have had more time interpreting what we were reading, most specifically with Shakespeare. There is so much meaning behind his writing but we hardly spent any time interpreting or reading between the lines. We spent so much time assigning people to read parts and so much time reading language that can be hard to understand and often we missed big parts because of that.
Montana Ferris / Period 2
I was never very good at writing a strong introduction that could pull in the reader and intrigue them. This is one of three things that I want to improve on and wish that I had spent more time on in English class. The second area that I would like to improve on is my ability to construct an effective and organized paper that conveys a given idea. The third thing I wanted to learn more about is writing poems. For our looking at art project, I had to write a poem. I didn't expect it to be anywhere near as hard or time consuming as it was. By learning a bit more about each of these areas, I will feel more confident in my writing abilities.
Trisha Hancock
Period 2
Over the last four years of english I would have liked to learn more about writing papers. When I say that i would like to have learned how to translate my thoughts better, and how to conclude better. Second i would like to have had a better vocab, in college i would like to be able to use better words for writing or anything else. Lastly i would like to have focused more on analyzing literature, and focus on the different meaning poems or whatever other kind of reading it may be can mean besides the overall meaning.
Alex Garcia
Period 2
Some things I wish I could have learned more about is just simple grammar. Such as having refreshers on the basics like whether a period comes after the comma or a parentheses. I also wish In some of my classes we could have read some more popular books and discussed them instead of sticking to what was on the suggested reading list like a clockwork orange or other complex books but are very relatable to where we are in our lives as teenagers. Finally I would have liked to focus on verbal communications and simply using a broader more professional vocabulary in everyday conversations or presentations.
Zoe Thiemann Period 6
Over the past four years of high school I was lucky to have 4 very different english teachers who all had very different learning styles, so learning different things was never an issue. However, I do wish I learned more about how to write really good poems and short stories. I enjoy reading well written ones and I think it would be a lot of fun to be able to do that also. I also wish I could learn to write better intro and concluding paragraphs in papers. It's something I always have struggled with but everyone knows that if those two paragraphs are strong it can make a paper. Finally the third thing I wish I learned more about would be being able to expand my vocabulary to write at more of a college level.
Gabe Gonzalez Period 2
I have really enjoyed English as a subject over the past four years however there were still a few changes I could come up with. Firstly I would have liked to read more novels each year. I thought we spent too much time reviewing each novel when it would have been more interesting to read a variety of different stories. Next I would have liked the opportunity to be a little more creative while writing with less structured prompts and more open topics to write about. Lastly I would have liked to learn more about authors, composers and what inspired their works and styles.
Daniel Reisz P6
Somethings I would have liked to have learned more about in English over the past four years would have been more about the ages of writing in america and what events influenced the authors at the time they wrote their books. Also I would have liked to learned more about how to organize and plan for writing a really long 5-10 page papper/essay. Also I wish we would have done a unit on early lititure from ancient cities of knownledge such as baghdad and athens, im really interested in what these authors have to write about.
Andrea Wolfe
Period 2
Looking back on my four years of English throughout high school there are many things I wish we could have focused on more. Some of the things that come to mind first are getting a better idea of different types of essays and how to right them quick and efficiently but still have it be quality work. I also wish we could have focused on incorporating similar questions and vocabulary that was asked on the SATs and ACTs into everyday class to help prepare us for these tests. Thirdly I would have liked to read more pop culture books because it is easier to read books that are interesting than it is to read historical or famous books that arent intriguing to me.
Dathan Bauman
Per. 2
Over the years I would have liked to know more about how to make a good story and keep the reader interested. I could write a story but it always seem too short or got boring. Another thing I wanted to learn was how to create a good hook at the start of a book or paper. I went over it throughout the years but never seem to get it right. I also wish I was a better speller because sometimes I change the word that is exciting to a word I know how to spell and boring. I think if I just practice over the years I would have been better at it, plus I thing typing text with all the short cuts like LOL doesn't help either.
Kaiti Staup period 4
I wish I could have learned to write more efficiently. I am a competent writer but it takes me forever to pull a paper together. I also would have liked to have spent time on something other than poetry in 10th grade. I thought it was dumb and pointless. I also I wish that I could have been exposed to more books, rather than beating the same book over and over again. it got ridiculous.
Evan Norris
Per. 6
The things I would have wanted to learn more about in English would have to have been these:
I would have wanted to focus on how to write a more attractive paper, with more literary fluency, depth, and a more educated structure, that would be pleasant to read as it is conveying a point.
Organization is key as well, not only the paper's structure, but how the words themselves can be seamlessly constructed to create writing that can present something tangible, or visible to the reader.
The second would be more of an emphasis on expanding my vocabulary and knowledge of words. The use of words to me would be as important as its structure or the point of the paper.
Last would have been to work on how to organize for longer papers without too much reiteration. It would be beneficial for the lengthy college papers and essays.
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