There are always a few things kids get nervous about like going to the doctors, when parents say to their kids let’s have a talk, and walking out of the first day of Mrs. Fox-Angerer’s ENG 101 class. Mrs. Fox’s class is hard because there are different learning levels in the classroom, you must have time management, and students have Mrs. Fox, Ms. Lilygren, and Mrs. Hawkins as instructors. Mrs. Fox’s class is hard because there are different learning levels in the class. Some students have the minimum test scores required to be in that class, while others have higher scores. According to Fox’s syllabus “Students enrolled in English 101 must have an eighteen or better on the ACT, or a score of seventy or better on the compass test, or a grade of a C” (2). These test scores reflect how much information the student already knows and how quickly students can retain the information. While some students may be able to understand generalized information more rapidly, other students may need the instructor to spend more time teaching some curriculum. Students entering her class may just be coming out of high school, be an adult who hasn’t been in school for years, or even be students who are currently enrolled in high school. The learning barrier for the adults would be they have to learn how things have changed since they have been to school. Techniques and curriculum may have changed since they were last in school. The recent graduates and the ones still in high …show more content…
Fox’s class is a challenging class to take. The most challenging parts that students have to overcome are the different learning barriers in her class, it can be overwhelming for students to reach all deadlines, and she is dealing with health issues of her own at this time. Yes, Mrs. Fox’s class is hard but so are the other classes you take. Students should be prepared for these types of difficulties in every college class. In Mrs. Fox’s class students either make it or break it. I hope we can all make
Mike Rose met many struggling students at UCLA’s Tutorial Center, the Writing Research Project, and the school’s Summer program. He first describes the loneliness students feel upon arriving at college, and that as they try to find themselves, they all to often lose themselves because they are bombarded with ideas that are so foreign to them. He introduces his audiences to Andrea, a bright young girl out of high school who, despite hours of memorizing in her textbook, could not obtain a passing grade on her Chemistry mid-term. How is this possible if she spent so much time studding? Rose explains that she failed because in college, and in this course in particular, it is not enough for a student to know the material, but rather, to be able to apply it in a various amount of problems. Yet the problem Andrea faces is that she was never taught this in high school.
As I look back into my high school years, I thought I wrote papers well. But then coming into a college environment, my papers were mediocre. By overlooking at my past papers, I found that they were unorganized, sloppy and had bad use of diction. From now on, I will use the tools I learned in English 1100-40 as a foundation for the future papers I intend on writing in college. Following the criteria of organizing ideas so that they flow, impacting the reader with diction and also by being creative, will help become an ideal writer. Following the criteria of staying motivated in short and long term goals, taking responsibility for actions and finally the ability to study well will help me develop into a supreme student.
My first college English class was ENC 1101 at the State College of Florida. In this course, I learned a vast amount of information about writing, reading, and grammar. When I first walked into ENC 1101 in August, I expected the class to be like any other English class in High School; with rushed busy work and a lot of useless tests and quizzes. However, throughout each week of the semester, Professor Knutsen’s class made me beg to differ. This class was not like any other high school English class. In this class I actually learned important information and did not do work just to complete it. This class had a few assignments here and there, enough to maintain, in order to learn proper information. I learned a lot in this class because I was not rushed to
Oh boy was I scared into complete and utter silence on my first encounter with my new instructor. The demands on us, as a student, seemed to be exceedingly high leaving no room for mistakes. On the contrary, being that this was all pretty much new for me, I began to panic. Meanwhile as I tried to remain in control of my emotions, so not to let any instruction slip bye, I collectively viewed English 111 as being a totally new, yet overwhelming task.
Shor’s students in their opinion that writing is hard. I understand that many of the students may feel that the writing exam is unfair. Being a high school student, I have had my fair share of standardized testing, including writing. Personally, writing is a harder skill for me and requires an immense amount time and focus. Like the students in Mr. Shor’s class, I agree that it is unfair that students only get fifty minutes to write a response to a prompt they may not be able to relate to. When talking about his students, Shor states that “They said that students should have as long as they need to write the best essay they could”. This quotation expresses the students’ need for extra time on the writing exam. Fortunately, I have been granted accommodations for extended time. I cannot imagine having to compose an essay that one has to write within fifty minutes with no preparation. Writing this assignment itself probably took me more time than that! Having extra time helps me tremendously to gather my thoughts and compose an essay without being rushed. Writing is a process that cannot be spoon-fed to students. It has to be learned. When talking about his students, Shor states that “ They were waiting for me to do education to them.” This quotation is saying that Shors students were expecting to be told what to do and what to write. The students did not put forth effort to motivate themselves or to think for themselves to become
The pain and agony of knowing that I might not be prepared for college classes is a weight I have bore on my shoulders. One of my goals has always been to lift the stress of college classes off my back and have the assurance that I am ready for the challenges that are ahead of me. Since day one of high school, being engaged while learning has been my biggest desire so that I am well prepared for the next step in life: college. Dual Enrollment English was exactly what I needed to be well prepared for college. All of my high school career, I had never known what it actually meant to do well and be ¨successful.¨ An abstract idea occurred to me, in room 201, as I was sitting in the front row of my Dual Enrollment English 111 class; this idea
When I first heard that I had to take English 110, I was frightened. I had Doctor McDonald my first term at CBU for Introductory to English. This lady deposited English fears in me that had me never wanting to take English or see anything with the word English in it. Every paper I wrote my first term for her class was never good enough, it either had punctuation errors, grammar errors, didn’t make sense or the story was boring to her. This woman crushed everything in me that wanted to one day pursue being a writer. When I completed her class, I was depressed and stressed to the max, pleasing her was like trying to please my family. I got extremely sick, and after week 6 I was about ready to give up. Professor Rivera my orientation teacher, and my advisor Mrs. Erica continued to encourage me.
As I look back on my English 101 experience, I have come to the conclusion that I have learned many new things that have improved my abilities as a writer. I have learned some new techniques that have improved my ways of approaching an essay. I learned all about the rhetorical appeals and how to apply them in my writing and how to look for them in a essay written by a author. I have also learned how to argue both sides of a argument, and how to look for reliable sources and to properly quote and site the author of the essay. I feel as if I have become a better writer and my improved writing skills are shown within each essay.
Mary Sherry, author of “In Praise of the “F” Word”, talks about the long forgotten concept of flunking students. Sherry teaches a remedial adult education course and sees students every semester who, unfortunately, did not obtain the necessary knowledge in school to further his or her education beyond high school successfully. Sherry also tells the story of her own sons experience in high school with a teacher that refused to let the minimum slide by like so many other teachers would. Sherry’s words are encouraging to the future, because she accepted the rules of an educator even though it could have hurt her own son which many parents would not have done. Sherry realized that while wanting to protect her family from negative experiences, the fear of failure would give her son a better future.
Todd Anderson is a freshman here. His brother was a Valedictorian, and a recipient of the National Merit Scholarship. Todd’s parents expect him to be like his brother. Anderson’s roommate is Neil Perry. His father makes him drop the school annual in order to have more time for studying. On the first day of their classes, the two boys are exposed to orthodox uncreative and uninteresting teaching style. Math professor gives them homework "all 20 questions at the end of the first chapter are due tomorrow". Finally, they have English class. It is taught by a new teacher – Mr. John Keating which methods are very unusual from the traditional ones. In the first class, he takes the students out of the
School had just started; it was the fall of my sophomore year. I was excited about having new teachers and being able to boss around those little freshmen since I had finally lost that ridiculous title of “freshy.” Although one class did turn all that excitement right into knots in my stomach, it was English 10. Ugh I hated English, partially because I could never remember all those rules of writing, which I had just thought of as “dumb.” I figured, “Why would I ever need to know all them? Computers will be able to fix all my mistakes for me!” As I would soon find out, boy was I ever wrong. Surprisingly, class was going good; our teacher Mr. Mieckowski seemed to be a little weird and quite boring at times but all in all not too bad I mean who isn’t boring occasionally? He had a shiny head with very little hair and never wore long sleeves to class. He was also quite tall and skinny, so everyone had his or her own conclusion about Mr. Mieckowski’s personal life. A lot of the time this ended up being the topic of conversation for his students, along with his hatred towards icicle lights, white reindeer, and especially technology; the thing I loved most.
With my first semester as a college student coming to an end, I can honestly say I have gained so much knowledge and this has been a major eye opening experience. By being in your English 111 class, I have learned a great deal about myself as a writer and a communicator. English used to be a subject I took for granted because I always considered it to be easy and there wasn’t much to it. You have helped me realize that in order to write a good paper, it is important to have a deeper understanding of the many structures and usages; as well as a better understanding of yourself and your audience. In what seems like such a short time, I have learned about rhetorical knowledge, the writing process, oral communication, critical thinking/reading/writing, and digital technology.
This class showed me how inequality is the base of education, if it’s not about gender it’s about class or race, making it hard for a person that falls under this description to have an equal chance, yet our society train us to believe that education can change
Before entering this class, I thought I was prepared for college English. I had incredibly capable high school English teachers, who taught me detailed mechanics, creative writing style, and of course, the necessity of practicing good grammar. On entering this class, I quickly realized how little I had actually learned in my high school English classes. While most of my high school English essays I wrote were based on literature, the majority of the essays I wrote in this class have been more experiential and centered on real-life issues. I expected to be writing essays on books I read and articles I analyzed, but that was not the case. This class showed me in a variety of ways that things are often very different than they seem originally
English is, almost certainly, the most important subject that a child can learn in school. Without knowing proper English, a child will not be able to communicate effectively with the English speaking nation. They would be shut off from education and other people in this country. A person who does not poses proper English limits his or her ability to achieve their highest potential. Knowledge of the English language is important to learn to be able to communicate with others, in the teaching of immigrant students, and in finding and maintaining a job.