Final Blog

I dreaded taking a summer school class. I took one right before my senior year in high school at ICC for an English class. I can’t stand the idea of school and summer mixing. I really had a good time in LIT 110 though. Not just the fact of Stephanie making everyday exciting, but I feel I’ve opened up a little more to the literary world. I think I have expanded a lot because I never in a million years would have picked up a book and sat down to read it. I think the fact that I knew we had a “deadline” we had to meet with our books, kind of made me sit down and read. Once I got going I couldn’t stop. I used to read when I was younger all the time. I would read Junie B. Jones books, and different books that looked “short” to me. Once I got a little older I felt I never had time to read because of friends or my family I now have. I’ve learned that the series of Twilight I’m reading is very interesting to me and I want to continue to read them. I guess you could say I’ve expanded in a way that I know what I’m interested in reading and I’m going to do it. You can always make a little time for yourself. I love the experience I had this summer with all of the opportunities Stephanie gave us. My favorite experience was the Poetry Slam. I also think that I expanded from that as well. I was always nervous getting up in front of an audience to speak or sing or anything at all. The class helped me as well by not laughing and only saying positive things about my poem. I loved the idea of being able to share my thoughts with the class. I like to talk a lot, which is weird because I was nervous to get in front of people, but this experience kind of put that aside for me and showed me the courage it takes to get up in front of people and recite something that you wrote. The poetry workshops were an experience as well. I didn’t know there were so many ways to write poems. They all helped out a lot as well because when you had the directions in front of you on how that poem should sound, it made it a little easier to understand.I feel I experimented in a positive way because I learned how to write poems, and I also learned how to write a short story. We also acted a play for the class. That was a fun experiment. I have had some background drama as a freshman in high school, so it was kind of like a refresh my memory chapter. It was fun to act from a different time and different person and get the authors point from actually acting it out. You get a whole new perspective when you “read” the play by acting rather than just reading it through text. Overall my experience with literature is a whole new perspective.