Monday, January 5, 2009

Hello all! I am Danielle. I have studied English in school for a good twelve years and my enjoyment of this subject has varied greatly between utter hatred and pure love. My enjoyment of English over the years has had a great deal to do with the various teachers, topics, friends in the class, and the amount of grammar we had to focus on. Basically, I am not very good at grammar; especially punctuation as you probably can tell by my writing in this blog. I have not enjoyed the English classes I have had in which our entire concentration was grammar.

I absolutely adored English in both my freshman and sophomore years of high school, and my favorite class by far was an elective creative writing class that I decided to take during my junior year of high school. My teacher was unbelievable my freshman year. She knew what she was doing when it came to teenagers. I had a passion for both of our topics which varied from 1960's rock'n'roll and Shakespearean plays. I also had some of my best friends in that class. Need I say more?

I loved my sophomore year again because of an awesome teacher, good friends, and the fact that we cover poetry. I am a big fan of writing and reading poetry. I had a great teacher my senior year as well and I found that class to be extremely interesting. Most of my other English experiences have been terrible, to the point where skipping class was definitly on my mind.

Creative Writing was awsome. I had the same teacher that I had for my scophomore year English class and she honestly became one of my best friends. Yeah, I would eat lunch with a teacher by choice sometimes. The class was just awesome! End of story.

I honestly do not have any real expectations for English 152. I am just ready to take this class as it comes and hopes for the best. I enjoy reading but I hope there is not an absolute ton of it. I am not interested in sleep deprivation. I am really happy that our topic family because I have a great deal of venting I could do about my family and I am interested to hear how my peers relate to their families.
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  1. DaveJanuary 7, 2009 at 10:40 AM

    Great first post Danielle. I appreciate the details you offer and it looks like I have a lot to live up to. I'll do my best.

    Glad that you have creative writing experience. Did you write mostly poetry or was there a creative essay or two in there? Who are some of your favorite poets?

    Venting can be a good way to start, as we see in The Memoir and the Memoirist; we'll be able to learn from Karr, though, that no matter how difficult things are, the best way to get that across is with a certain patient balance and with great attention.

    Give your posts a second read. Don't let typos distract from your strong writing.

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  2. Danielle*January 11, 2009 at 8:12 PM

    So far I have definitely enjoyed the class and you seem to be a great professor. In creative writing we wrote some poetry, creative essays, short stories, and made an outline for a play. It was a great class, and it will be hard for anyone to live up to the legacy of Mrs. Frech. My favorite poet is Emily Dickenson. I think that her writings are so heartfelt and inspirational. Thank you for the tips on typos. I realize it is a problem and I am trying to fix that. My problem is that when I reread to fix typeos; I end up reading what I ment to say and not what I acually have written. I need to be more tedious in my reviews. Thanks

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