For the longest time, I disliked the English language. Actually, dislike is being nice; I loathed it. The grammar and punctuation rules with their few exceptions drove me insane and until junior year, I had marked English as my least favorite subject. If I had had a choice between sitting through a 50 minute English class or hug a hungry tiger, I would take my chances and embrace the tiger as if it were a small kitten. English class was that bad.
But what happened junior year that changed my mind? Aside from having an English teacher fresh out of college, the freedom to write about anything our heats desired was introduced. At first, I was confused; I finally had the power to write about whatever I wanted as long as it fit the type of essay we were learning. No teacher was going to “spoon-feed” us our topics or how to go about the essay. That year, my imagination grew immensely. I was writing about short skirts and glitter (an inspiring essay about my cheerleading days), roasters chasing my brothers (narrative essay) and how the term “gold-digger” began (informative paper). I used more than four pages to describe New York City in the descriptive essay, found a way to relate myself to SpongeBob SquarePants, got to critique a Marc Jacobs ad and wrote about the sugar tax.
Junior year English class basically changed my thinking process. The creativity brought from that class is indescribable
Book wise, my favorite types of books are the Harry Potter series, stories like Anna Karenina and books like The Book of Awesome, and books about Amish life. They are all very different from each other; one is fiction, another is a literary classic, the third is a blog-based book and the last is about a group of people I find to be very interesting.
Your beginning is very funny. The choice between tiger and English made me laughing and sometimes I have the same feeling. You are lucky to have a nice teacher. The change of thinking process must be significant, because a new process of thinking can being many new ideas. I must say good teachers are significant to our life. They can change our thought and lead us to a better situation. My math teacher in middle school changed me a lot, she plays an important role in my life. I was very shy before high school and continually felt nervous when talking with other people. My teacher encouraged me to be the subject representative and offered lots of chances for me to participate in school activities. Likewise, I cultivated my interpersonal communication skills considerably. Thanks to these experiences, I learned how to get along with strangers better and how to further build upon my growing self-confidence. I always think that it’s so lucky for me to have her as my teacher.
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