This is a compendium of timed responses, vocab stories and other personal written responses by students in Ms. Reyes's English 12 class.
“Read, read, read. Read everything – trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.” ~William Faulkner
Monday, March 9, 2015
In TEN YEARS -- POST RESPONSE IF ABSENT FROM CLASS
Where do you see yourself in 10 years? How do you plan to get there? (minimum 200 words)
Any question of such merit as my future spurs the various components of my personality into independent motion. The pessimist says I will probably be dead, while the optimist pines for a satisfying career, a beautiful home, and a happy family. A small chunk of me just wants to host dungeons and dragons games for the rest of my life. Most of my brain follows a more realistic trend however: college, career, happiness. Regardless of what I study I will be done with college inside of 10 years, most likely engineering (of which mechanical and aerospace are the prime suspects). While engineering is my plan the future is too unstable that far out to know if that is really what I'll do with my life – particularly considering how many college students change their major between when they enter college and when they graduate. Who know, maybe the universe will take a wrench to my plans and I'll become a writer, or a scientist, or a politician, or a sailor, or a zookeeper, or a scientist, or even a taxi driver. It could be that I sell cadavers to a medical institute and there aren't enough dead bodies so I take drastic measures... wait, I think that's the plot of a movie.
Any question of such merit as my future spurs the various components of my personality into independent motion. The pessimist says I will probably be dead, while the optimist pines for a satisfying career, a beautiful home, and a happy family. A small chunk of me just wants to host dungeons and dragons games for the rest of my life. Most of my brain follows a more realistic trend however: college, career, happiness. Regardless of what I study I will be done with college inside of 10 years, most likely engineering (of which mechanical and aerospace are the prime suspects). While engineering is my plan the future is too unstable that far out to know if that is really what I'll do with my life – particularly considering how many college students change their major between when they enter college and when they graduate. Who know, maybe the universe will take a wrench to my plans and I'll become a writer, or a scientist, or a politician, or a sailor, or a zookeeper, or a scientist, or even a taxi driver. It could be that I sell cadavers to a medical institute and there aren't enough dead bodies so I take drastic measures... wait, I think that's the plot of a movie.
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