thank you

I would finally just like to thank my professor, Dr. Lorde, for giving our class the time and for filling us with the information that we know have that will hopefully further us along in our careers. My hat goes off to you. She was generous enough to let us redo a couple of our writings that my fellow class mates and I have previously done and to turn them in and to receive a new grade as our new efforts. I do believe that she gave us a fair and appropriate amount of time to work on each project, and for that I thank you!

Class time and at home time

I think over all I spent the appropriate amount of time in class and out of class to complete this course. I will back this statement up with that we were never given any in class time to work on our writings, so therefore I did all of it obviously at home. I think that in class we could have learned more out of the book and more book information instead of just watching a movie about a porcupine riding a rooster and dodgeball. I do understand the point that she was tying to make but me and my peers would agree that she lost all of our interest.

Final

On the final there are going to be three sections that are included. One is an essay on a movie that we will be watching Wednesday in class, the second and third will be on short answer. This final I am most worried about. Only because I don't feel like I have learned anything book smart that will help me pass the test or even further along in another English class. However I do believe that I have strenghened in my writing. I am glad that I opted to take another English class right after my English 101, like I did. I believe that this way everything that I learned previously helped me and transferred over into my new writing style.

Random

I am most worried about this final the most out of my other three classes. I don't believe that there was enough time spent talking of the book issues, rather than what I would consider random and irrelevant. At the beginning of the class they were around 25 students. Now at this moment there are only bout 7 who have decided to stay and to complete the course. I am glad to say that I am one of them, even though all of my friends have opted out and dropped, I stayed through and trooped it out over the long hall. If that's not an accomplishment in my mind than I don't know what would be.

Portfolio

This is just a collection of a couple of writings that we have written during this course and also a evaluation in the form of a essay of us critiquing how we think we personally did during the course. The portfolio will also include the blogs or journals that we have been writing over the past sixteen weeks. We had to include projects one and three and then the second would be all of our blogs in order. This had to be in a simple two pockets folder. We are not allowed to add project six into this grouping of collections simply because we have just gotten the papers back and also due to their enormous size.

Grade on Project 6

I believe that I had put a lot more effort in on my first draft than revising my final draft. I found it very difficult to make a thesis statement, and I still do not fully understand what a thesis is. I have received a D on my paper, which I understand, but I believe that I could have done a lot better. I don't think that the project was fully described. I think that a lot of my fellow peers would agree that we didn't know what the professor was looking exactly for. I think that time spent on other things in the class, could have maybe perhaps be spent on talking about things that are more relevent to the course or to the book.

Turning in the final draft of research

I was most worried about this due date since the beginning of the class. This was the biggest assignment that we have received and that we had to complete over the sixteen weeks in the class. This was the toughest and the most draining assignment out of all of my classes. This project was the research paper. It had to include 15 sources which were academic articles. That had to be the hardest part of the assignment for me personally. That and finding time to complete it and to put time into revising it. This project was given enough time to do, thankfully. I beleive that I personally did my best.