Reflection

So this is my “official” reflection letter for English 101. My name is Olga, I am about 5’5”, I am 16 years old, I have brown hair (right now, it changes whenever I get around to getting it done), my eye colour changes, and my favourite colour is yellow. I got into this English class by accident. I needed an English class because I hated English at the high school, and I am in running start and needed the English credits. I thought I was signing up for a regular, every day English class, but ended up with an online class about culture. At first I was scared because I thought everyone would be really judgmental about my opinions and about my papers and assignments. Today I realize that that was not even close to the truth. I have no clue where I’m going in life, but I am glad I took this English class to get me at least a little bit started on my path to wherever I may end up.

The overall theme of this class was culture. We learned about different aspects of culture by learning about identity, community, and traditions. Talking about different papers and movies with this class helped me learn to organize my thoughts and look deeper into the meanings of the movies I watch, or the books that I read. When we watched the movie Fight Club, I noticed so many different things in it that I had never noticed before, even though I have seen fight club multiple times.

I have four separate pieces for my E Portfolio. The piece that I chose because I thought it best showed critical thinking skills was my communities’ paper. In this paper I had to think a lot about the different types of communities and how they came to be a community in the first place, and why people are or aren’t accepted into them. My assignment that could benefit most from a re-write was the name assignment written when the class first started. It was one of the first assignments, so it makes sense for it to need more work. The assignment itself was really interesting, but I now realize that I could have done a way better job when I wrote it. For the third piece I chose the wallet blog. I thought that it was a lot of fun to write and it was interesting to be able to learn about classmates when reading their blog. The audience, the class members, could guess what someone was like when reading their description of what they kept in their wallet, which is why I think this piece best shows voice. For my fourth and final piece, I chose our final paper. It seems to make sense that the final assignment would be the best, because it is written when you have all the knowledge from the whole quarter. It is my favourite because I was really interested in the topic, body art, and I think that I did the best with this paper when it came to keeping all of my ideas in order.

Taking this class is one of the best things I could have done this year. I learned more in this past quarter then I have in my past two years of English classes at a high school. I learned a lot about different ways of interpreting stories, movies, people, and culture. Even though I am still not the best at writing, I know I’ve defiantly grown and will hopefully continue to grow after being done with this class. This reflection letter just keeps getting longer and longer, so I’ll end it now. Thank you for reading this and I hope you enjoy my blog in its entirety.