I decided to do my last post on my opinions about this course. Where do I start…? First off I’d like to say it isn’t really anything like the English courses taught in high school, a lot more is expected of you as a student, where as in high school you could basically skim by without really making an effort.
Even though I had to work my butt off to complete the tasks at hand I really did enjoy CM1120. I thought the materials the students needed to know were given in a good way, we were expected to have all the pieces read prior to coming to class but that helped us as individuals to build responsibility and a better work ethic. The pieces we read was mostly interesting but like everything you aren’t going to like everything you do, much like this course I didn’t really like them all. Some things that I didn’t like about the course are: I felt that we should have maybe written our own poems and short story that would have been fun for me!
We were also given some writing exercises to help improve our writing skills, I really needed this cause evidentially, I can’t really write well. I also enjoyed doing this blog because it’s something that I haven’t done before; it gave us the freedom to write whatever we wanted, as long as it had something to do with the course. If I could go back and change anything about this semester it would be that I would work more diligently with everything and to attempt to raise my grade a little bit more.
I agree with you this course was completely different from English class in high school. There is so much more expected of us but it does build character and teach us to be better prepared and more responsible student. I think this course will help us espically next year when we go on to larger universites. We will be better prepared for english therefore our grades will not suffer as badly as they would if we had been straight out of high school. I also liked the fact that we had to read the stories for call before coming to class. It left more time for discussion of the story and for me this allowed me to better understand the stories and poems when it came to writing about them for my essay. This blog was an excellent idea as well. It allowed us to remain focused on the course while having some freedom to write about things we chose as well.I think this course will benefit us all
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I mostly agree, but coming from a school where we had 4-5 month terms, I actually found the work load lighter, but the work itself was a lot more involved. This course was pretty good because we only had to focus on two main subjects: poetry and short stories. I especially agree with the responsibility bit, we are expected to do a lot outside of class, and with all of us taking multiple courses with work outside the classroom, this proves to be a bit more challenging! This course was definitely a good one to take!!!
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