The best part of English this year was the art walk. I liked this part of English 20 because we
made a fun event out of something that normally wouldn’t have been that
interesting. Mr. Paske was enthusiastic
the minute we walked through the door and saw which art he had chosen to print,
to when the bell rang for lunch. Each
piece of art was different but still beautiful, which made writing down each
fact about them amusing. There was no
limitation for what we could come up with, so there were some really funny
things being written. Mr. Paske was
walking around the whole time and really helped when someone was stuck on a
harder painting, or hinting towards some points if we were getting too off
track in the workbook. The worst part of
English this year would have been the movie presentation. I think this was the least entertaining part
of the year because of the complications Maddy and I came across. The first hurtle we had to go over was finding
a movie both of us liked and would work with the criteria. This was really difficult, I had a couple of
ideas in mind for a really good project and she did too but the only movie that
we could agree on was Up. The next
reason I didn’t like this project and part of the year was because the whole
day was frustrating. My computer had
crashed the day before and the apple store couldn’t do anything to fix it right
away. There was nothing we could do but redo
the whole project just before we went up to present. I feel like if the project went along without
any technical issues it would have been a lot more enjoyable. One thing that could be improved upon for
next year would be to do more hands on projects and activities instead of worksheets
and essays. I think this would be a good
change because personally I learn better by doing creative projects than
worksheets. Another thing that I would
change about this year to make it better would be to have less work on the
computer. It’s harder to lean from a
computer screen than with a physical piece of paper.
