Senior English Class Analysis

Mr. McGee's Senior English was one of the hardest classes that I have ever taken in my high school years. There was a lot of coursework, but along with that he explained it all. Even though the class was hard, it was also very enjoyable. I liked all of our crazy conversations that we had and always "bringing love into it" as Mr. McGee would say. I know there are many things in this class that I possibly could have done better on, and I know there are some things that I have done well. Through every class there is always strengths, weaknesses, and places that I know I can improve on.

In senior English I believe that my strengths were less than my weaknesses. This is because I am not very proficient at reading or writing. My strengths that I saw in myself this year, and mostly just this last quarter, is reading faster and understanding more. I got help with this by reading more books that were harder to understand. The way that I understood things more was by Mr. McGee reading the stories in class and helping us understand the meaning. With this help, and the online videos, I was able to read Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein with …show more content…
English is not my forte, so I had many problems. Mr. McGee helped the class try to understand as a whole, but there wasn’t really much that I could do. I often got behind and this made my grade go down because things weren’t getting turned in on time. When I got behind, so did my reading, and this reflected on my test scores because the tests that I was taking were on stories that I didn’t read yet, so I basically was just guessing on everything. I think the lowest score that I had this year on a test was a 34%. I like that Mr. McGee lets us not fail. All we have to do is write more essays over a certain topic and we get at least a 60% so we can’t actually fail his class. This honestly helped me a lot more than I wish it had over the