Um… speaking in class is awkward, because it’s very silent afterwards. I personally don’t mind telling what’s on my mind –I place my opinion a lot in other classes, but I also find listening important. The thing is I don’t know if everyone is listening when they aren’t speaking; maybe they’re just spacing off. Part of the reason people may not be participating so much is due to having to take the risk of being mistaken. Because the class’s curriculum is analytically and critically thinking based more than anything, one might find their interpretation to be “wrong.” I enjoy that we do have discussions, and there are many who do speak when we drift a bit off topic, but when the teacher is looking for one straight answer, anyone would feel under pressure. Also, halve the children in the class I’ve never met, therefore first impressions will be made about the people you’ll have to spend the rest of your high school experience with.
Furthermore when it comes to vocabulary, as much as I don’t want to –or rather don’t have enough time to-, I believe we should enforce it more throughout our other work so that it actually sticks. Perhaps that’ll happen during finals, which I am worried about, but anyway to actually put the knowledge we gained from doing those worksheets into play would be really beneficial when it comes time for SAT, or generally throughout life. I think the book we do have is very good, and has helped me learn a lot, I am not sure if I recall it all accumulatively so far, but it was packed with info.
Lastly I think we should as a class try to comment on each other’s blogs more often, because I am sure everyone has ideas that they want share; that sometimes an opportunity isn’t presented during class.
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