Course Reflection

This semester has gone by so quickly!  Every semester is full of new ideas and information, and this one was no different.  I tend to look at the learning experience as a whole, so sometimes picking out specific things that I have learned in a particular class can be challenging.  This semester I took two English classes.  Maybe I'm a masochist. But each taught me some fantastic things.  The class for which I created this blog was English 102.  Somehow I had missed taking this before, but I'm thankful for being able to take it with an instructor who was both helpful to her students and good at challenging them to think and grow.  I have been so very lucky to have similar professors for most of my classes!  But this assignment and post are meant to focus on what I have learned form this course in particular...

The very first thing I learned in this class was about book blogging!  If you go back and look at my posts you will notice that I have done some of these on my own as well.  I have blogged some personal reading, and some of the assigned readings from my other English class.  What a great experience.  Though I haven;t had the time to really delve into the world of book blogging and start reading other people's book blogs, (outside of my class,) I look forward to doing so.  I also plan on continuing my own book blog!

Two of the reading that I blogged about from the class come to mind right away when I think about things that affected me during this course.  Both "Bartleby the Scrivener" and "A Modest Proposal" were challenging to read and analyze.  It's always nice to be assigned reading that has depth to it.  I like having the chance to read these short pieces as well as our assigned novel Winter's Bone because they were things that I would not otherwise have read.  I think that this really helps to broaden my experience and understanding of other people. :)

Headed on out of the semester! (R. Whittaker 10-2012)