I can honestly say that this was the best English class I've had in a while. We all got to express ourselves in a variety of ways that improved our writing at the same time. We got to explore ourselves as writers and discover what keeps us going and makes us want to write. While all of this was happening, we all got to know each other and see what makes all of us unique. There aren't many classes where I can say I've had that happen. We had so much freedom in terms of what we wanted to write about and how we wanted to write it.
The forum presentations were an awesome way to get to know people in the class and research a really cool topic. My forum group was really awesome and I'm really happy that I got to know them. I can't say that I would have become friends with them if we hadn't been in the same group, but it turns out that they are all really cool people. The forum made me like group projects again and look at them with a little more optimism than I did before, because I could come out of them with some new friendships.
Overall, I think that this class was super supportive and created an environment where we weren't afraid to share and contribute to discussion. All of the discussions we had in class make it so the we get to know each other even if we didn't hang out outside of class. Thank you all for being such a great group of people and creating an environment that supported individual characters and learning!
Hope y'all have a great summer and see you next year,
Harry Gooding