Pablo Jimenez
December 15,2019
Essay
On August 12th, 2019 I
walked into Dr. Preston’s I felt kind of glad that I got your class once again
for English because last year I learned a lot of life lessons and the thinks
you taught. The lessons that really stood out to me were how to improve your
critical thinking, memorizing, and public speaking. I also liked when we
presented our own topic that we were really intrigued by and then presented to
the class.
I found it very interesting because
I have never had a class where the teacher let the students pick how the class
was going to be taught. I also liked when you left the room for us the students
to discuss about how the class would be taught. I also payed more attention to
you because of how you could relate to us because you didn’t really like the
way the school taught English and how they weren’t really teaching us life
skills that we would later need.
My first time doing a journal I
thought that it would not just be boring but, then you introduced topic that
were interesting to learn about and from then on I liked doing them especially the
ones where we would write down what was on our mind as soon as we walked in the
classroom and the class started. I wasn’t really feeling the blogs because I didn’t
really feel comfortable with my things on line and videos I just feel weird
when I see myself in a video of some sort and hear my voice. The only other
thing that I can think of that has been new to me has been the recent interview
that we had because I had never done something like that and I am happy that I
did it because now I can practice in interviews in order to get better.
A point where I felt the most
tension was probably to do one of the poetry videos because I didn’t really
want to put a video of me where I saw myself and other people could see it and I
was really shy to do it. But then I said to myself hey this is to build up my skills
in memorization and to help me in life like to remember stuff like building an
engine in a car since I want to be a mechanic.
I don’t really have a routine for
doing stuff I just do it when I know its important. I have made up a few blogs
that I knew were important and then went back and did them. I am a different
learner than the learner that I was in August because I now know how to write
better, but I still need to work on my speaking a bit and how to present myself
better for an interview like adding context to my answers. I have also learned
a lot of vocabulary that will help me in the future because im guessing that we
will be more advanced in technological.
