How To Write A Narrative Essay About My Junior English Class

When you walk in the first day of your junior English class, to a woman under 5 feet tall standing on a desk staring at you, you know that there are only two options; either this class is going to be fantastic or a complete disaster. I had heard from students that she had previously, that you could never please her. But, I was going to give her the benefit of the doubt, see what I could do and what was possible based on my experience. The bell rang and signalled for the class to begin. I took a deep breath, as the teacher began to speak, still standing on the top of the desk. She proceeded to play a music video that showed different sections of a wide range of people’s life. She then asked us, how is this was relevant to us? What did this make us think, and how would it change our approach to writing and education? I didn’t even know how it made me feel. I really just wanted to know why this woman who everyone in the school thought could not be pleased was still standing on the top of this desk.
She went on in the class period, “What is my reputation around the school?” she asked. Everyone looked around, some giggled and made snide …show more content…
We were directed to write an outline, for what would eventually become our essays. Little did I know , getting there was going to be quite the battle. The essay was on “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, so naturally the class had spent time reading the book and we were ready to further analyze what we had read. Our teacher told us to formulate an opinion on the book, regarding racism. From this basic opinion she told us to formulate a thesis to describe what we were thinking. The thesis was designed to contain three main components, the what, the why and the how. I had written a thesis before. I was fairly confident in my ability to complete the task. So, in turn I wrote what I thought to be an adequate thesis statement and submitted it for grading and