Fears, Hopes, and Dreams for English 109-Spring Semester
As someone who is not exactly an "English person," it is very possible that this class is my most intimidating class for the semester. I am hoping that throughout the semester, my mind will be changed about English, because I do want to like it. In the following post, I will summarize my very own fears and hopes about this class.
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- Out of all the four main projects, the element that I am most worried about is arranging for the interviews in project two. Whenever you work with other people, things can go wrong, and when you're not very out-going in the first place, arranging an interview with a professional is literally the most terrifying thing you could ever do.
- For the upcoming semester, I am most excited to delve into controversies in the medical world. Medicine is something that has interested me ever since I saw my first episode of House, M.D., and I am very excited to look deeper into some of the more controversial issues involving human health.
- This class involves extensive planning ahead, both on a week-to-week basis with the modules that are due each Sunday, and on a more long-term basis with the planning that has to go into each project. Each project involves something that requires you to plan ahead quite a bit, like the interviews in project 2 and research and investigations in the other projects. Planning for these aspects of the projects can take up a lot of time, and balancing them with day-to-day course work will no doubt end up being one of the greatest challenges of this course.
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- As most students did, I had a very traditional English class experience in high school, where we read books and then later wrote essays about them. I would say that my high school English class prepared me for one of the four projects: the college essay. However, I feel like my English class did prepare me for critically analyzing works of writing, so even if I'm not necessarily prepared for the technology aspects of the projects, I do feel that I will be prepared for the research and preparation.
- I feel like the assignment sheets for the four main projects are very clear in summarizing exactly what we need to do for each project, and I feel that if I did have questions, then they were answered during our brief Q & A this week in class.
Reflection from Coby Allred's Course Projects post:
I found that reading Coby's post was extremely reassuring. Overall, we both have similar projections and fears about this course, so it's sort of nice to know that someone who is similar to me also is a little bit intimidated about the lack of directions that are given to us, as well as all of the preparation that we will have to do for our projects.
Reflection from Gabriela Marty's Course Projects Post:
Gabriela's post can be viewed here.
Gabriela's post was extremely personal and introspective. While I was reading it, I really got to thinking about this course and how it would affect me as a person. I know that its going to be a challenge, but Gabriela's post got me thinking about how it would change me for the better and hopefully make me a more organized and a more dedicated student.
I also feel that our most of our English classes in high school were a lot more traditional than the one we are currently in. I think they have prepared us well but also sheltered us from the vast majority of writing genres that are out there. I’m also a bit nervous like you so nice to see that there are others in my boat!
ReplyDeleteYour optimistic view on tradition English class preparing you to think critically even though they didn't prepare us technologically was really nice to hear, it definitely calmed my nerves about the amount that I will have to learn technologically. Planning will also be my greatest challenge, and I feel like it will just get easier as the weeks go on- maybe we will even become planning pros!
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ReplyDeleteI also happen to be in a persay "pre-med" major and excited for the four project types for similar reasons! For me it wasn't House that peaked my medical interest but instead the show Scrubs (if you've seen it). I also nearly echoed your ideas regarding the extensive pre-planning and what not for each of projects. All in all you did a great job and I really enjoyed reading your post!
Good job analyzing the ins and outs of each course project, you seem to really understand what will be required for each one and what you need to do to prepare yourself. I definitely feel you on the traditional English classes up until now part though, this class will definitely be aunique experience for all of us! I also like how you already have some ideas for the projects, keep it up!
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