Which brings me to my next, totally unrelated point... I recieved my report card the other day and was very satisfied with my grades except for one... I got an A- in English Seminar. Normally, in any other class, I would be very pleased with an A-, but not English Seminar. The expectations of us in that class are that we show up once a week to our assigned day, turn in five pages of writing every two weeks and read 100 pages a week in a book of our choice. I can confidently say I met all those requirements. I may not have read exactly 100 pages every week, but that didn't matter the first two quarters. Plus, I've turned in about a million writing peices and only gotten 2 or 3 back from the whole year. That's cause there are a lot of kids taking the class, therefore it takes forever to grade. So the only reason I'm curious about the grade is because I'm not sure what it's based on. But I plan to ask during my next class. If the teacher (we have an intern teaching our class for the rest of the year) can give me an explanation, then I will be very happy and forget all about it. I just want to make sure I wasn't getting an A- just to mix things up a bit or something. Although, I'm sure that's not the case. It would just be helpful for me to know where the minus is coming from so that I can make an effort to improve in the next/last quarter.
English Seminar's a fun class though. I read on my own, but not as often as I should. So this helps to push me in the direction of making it a regular thing. Also, writing constantly about whatever I want has been fun. Because I've had enough practice writing that my peices usually come out how I want them to. Although I'm looking forward to next year when I'll be taking a more structured class because I think it's really important to know how to write good essays and all that. My only regret for this year was that I didn't take communications. I've enjoyed Eng. Sem. a lot, but I think communications would have been really good for me. They spend a lot of time working on vocabulary and little details in grammer and those things are all really benefitial when you go to actually write something. Because then your thoughts can sound, whether or not they actually are, somewhat intelligent.
When I was signing up for classes last year, Martha strongly suggested that I take both English Seminar and Communications. So now, when I'm sitting in the cafeteria during one of my many free periods (because a lot of my classes meet only once or twice a week), and watching the communications kids doing their vocab., I realize that I should have listened to Martha... You'd think I would have learned that lesson when I bought a really ugly shirt that Martha said I would never wear, and then I never did. But no. Maybe I'll listen to her next time she offers advice... But maybe not, depends what it is. Haha, that's a good start, right?
Posted by lib at April 13, 2004 09:29 PM