Reflection On Taplehays Class

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English 1A in professor Tapleshays class has been very interesting. My experience so far has not been what I expected it to be. My thought was that we were going to start reading right away. I didn 't expect it to be such a fun learning environment. I 've always enjoyed english. I may not understand it completely nor be great at it but it 's a fun subject. You learn something different every day. It can be a difficult language if it is not read or written properly . By observing the way you talk and express yourself I can see i 'm going to learn quite a lot of things not only from you but also from my classmates. I love the fact that you interact with your students and you joke around but yet stay on top of things. You don 't change the subject to a whole new thing. You go on with it and try to make explain your point of view. Then after …show more content…
I feel like waking up early really messes with me. I fall asleep and it feels like i 've closed my eyes for about 10 minutes. Next, thing you know BAM!! It 's time to get up. You obviously don 't care because I signed up for this class and you didn 't make me. I 'm only telling you this because it 's something I have experienced. I have also learned more than I expected to in the first 3 days. First of all, we need to clean our imagination. Something we can do to help us clear our imagination is writing for 10 minutes a day and also reading. We need to chop down our trees. The more you write the better you read ,the more the read the better you write, and the more you read and write the better you think. Secondly, I learned something I kinda already knew but didn 't fully think out. The way they educate us in this country. From K-8 it 's all technical, basic math etc. 9-12 it 's comprehension, do this and do that. This is all just to get paid minimum wage. Once you hit upper, the level of insight that becomes everything. You show you 've mastered all the skills and have learned to read between the

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