During my Junior year, my two-year English teacher Mrs. Granatir, who previously taught College Preparatory, was moving. I wondered what college prep would be like with the new English teacher. Through my senior friends, I knew what Mrs. Granatir taught her College Preparatory students and I sometimes wondered how I would do if I was going to be in that class next year; however, this new College Preparatory class, with its new teacher and completely different lessons, was more unexpected than I had imagined, but I learned more about college life than I thought I would.
Something that I never expected on the first day of school, was the young teacher, who is really honest about things, saying that we would start the school year with learning …show more content…
When I first took my ACT, I felt like my essay for the writing portion was horrible, because I was not able to include the important parts that I wanted in my essay. When brainstorming, I would always use an outline format and not the web that I learned in elementary school. Through this class, I learned what I should not do on the ACT essay. The first lesson was to not focus too much detail on the perspectives that I do not agree with. Next is to organize the essay starting with an introduction, then the perspective I disagree most with, then the other perspective, and finally, the perspective that I agree most with. This technique would decrease the amount of time I needed to spend on it.
Lastly, I learned about fallacies. That day, when the class watched the fallacy video, I only understood half the definitions that explained some of the fallacies, like strawman fallacy or black and white fallacy. As days passed by, I understood more and more and I could not believe how much fallacies are used in the news and even in the presidential election. It made me think, “What will happen to the United States if the future president acted this way?” Moreover, I did not think I would have been able to memorize enough fallacies to have above a 90% on the fallacy
Something that I never expected on the first day of school, was the young teacher, who is really honest about things, saying that we would start the school year with learning …show more content…
When I first took my ACT, I felt like my essay for the writing portion was horrible, because I was not able to include the important parts that I wanted in my essay. When brainstorming, I would always use an outline format and not the web that I learned in elementary school. Through this class, I learned what I should not do on the ACT essay. The first lesson was to not focus too much detail on the perspectives that I do not agree with. Next is to organize the essay starting with an introduction, then the perspective I disagree most with, then the other perspective, and finally, the perspective that I agree most with. This technique would decrease the amount of time I needed to spend on it.
Lastly, I learned about fallacies. That day, when the class watched the fallacy video, I only understood half the definitions that explained some of the fallacies, like strawman fallacy or black and white fallacy. As days passed by, I understood more and more and I could not believe how much fallacies are used in the news and even in the presidential election. It made me think, “What will happen to the United States if the future president acted this way?” Moreover, I did not think I would have been able to memorize enough fallacies to have above a 90% on the fallacy