Hi Dr.Forman!
This quarter for me was mostly about developing my ideas and finding a way to verbalize and write them down in a way that is equal to a college level class. At first, when we started the I,Robot essay, I took ideas that we spoke about in class and advanced them into more complex ideas. My thesis however was a little lengthy and my analysis for the quotes wasn’t meaty and in depth enough. As we went on and discussed in class I began to form my own ideas based off of what was said. The class discussions and group circles really helped me vocalize my ideas and be able to fully complete and form them. Then when we got to the Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep essay I was much more confident in my ideas, and without a prompt I was able to take what spoke to me most throughout the novel and form my own topic. I really wanted to be able to take advanced ideas and relate them to questions that not only pertained to the book but also to real life, and that's where alot of my main points for the Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep essay came from. Also having an out of class reading book was a way to escape from the books we read in class but still read something that we enjoyed. I liked being able to connect The Hunger Games to Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep because it gave me a way to connect my selected reading book and find similarities among it and relate the ideas within it back to Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.
In my Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep essay, I definitely needed to spell check more carefully!! I think I would re-read it over and over to the point that my brain was numb to the small careless errors and more focused on my main points. I think I did a good job with the ideas and advancing them all while still keeping them in line with what my prompt was. I spent a lot of time trying to find really good quotes and finding ways to relate them all back together without being repetitive. I also liked how you had us span this essay out over a couple of weeks which gave me the opportunity to keep re-reading my work and finding little ways to make it better every time.
When we started this class I didn't really know what to expect. I had never had you as a teacher before, but this class has come to be one of my favorite classes throughout my whole Buckley experience, and you have become one of my favorite teachers. I really like that you conduct the class in a way to prepare us not only for college but you teach us how to take a novel and just from that be able to form complex ideas and essays that are at a college level. I normally hate speaking in front of the class but when we have group circles I feel comfortable sharing my ideas and I think that is because you created a class where it is frowned upon not to share your ideas. I like that you don’t assign busy work like many of my other teachers, but meatier and more advanced ideas. Everything I am learning in this class I know I will use next year in college and even past that later in life.
Thank you for being a great teacher and pushing us further and holding us to a higher standard that we didn’t necessarily know we were capable of achieving!
-Olivia
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