Assignment 26 - Matthew Klee

Ahhh, 6th hour AP Lang. English has never exactly been my strong-suit, but it sure was interesting this year thanks to you Mr. Logsdon. From the seemingly random videos I would walk into class and see from the acapellas we listened to English class this year was most definitely a different experience. Anyone, things that were effective and things that weren't. Something I thought that helped me was when we had in-depth discussions on what a "line of reasoning" or "thesis statement" was according to the rubric. Now, I didn't necessarily enjoy going over the rubric before starting to grade essays, because, to be honest, I mostly get zoned out during that, but I think when on an essay we were grading someone argued it didn't get a thesis point it was very helpful to discuss with the class just why it shouldn't get one because later on I would usually remember while writing my next essay what I should do so that it would be argued that I get MY thesis point. (wow that sentence was hecka long) Something that I didn't like was "no no" words, now, I guess there is a reason you have these because I know previous classes have had to avoid "no no" words as well, but, I was unable to see how it improved my writing much. I didn't despise it, I just didn't see it help me at all. Anyway, another effective thing honestly were the days that you gave us sort of a break, since I had Lang 6th hour, I was already hating school and in my mind ready to flame any teacher that gave me work that I didn't want, so, the days that you gave us breaks really made it difficult to hate you as a teacher and therefore I worked harder for you class even if I wasn't necessarily interested in the work we were doing.