A Midsummer Night's Dream: Course Analysis

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Hey Mr.Trajano,

I really enjoyed this course, especially because of the variety of different summative assessments which allowed me to work in different ways. I felt like I was always challenged, yet completely understood the material simultaneously, and that I was able to work better in groups (especially after the Fahrenheit 451 group). One piece of "constructive criticism" I have for English 10 as a course, would be to focus more on A Midsummer Night's Dream, as I thought we rushed it a little. As a teacher, I really appreciated your humor and charisma, and thought that it made the classroom less serious and made me more inclined to learn.

This summer I will be studying at the Phillips Academy at Andover for 5 weeks and taking two courses:

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