1.
This semester in English 15S I
learned how to meet with a group of random people selected for me and
successfully complete a project with them. Never before have I been placed to
work with individuals that I had never personally met before because in high
school I knew everyone pretty well. Although I was nervous and worried at first
it turned out that it was much easier to accomplish than I expected. I got
along great with the people in my group and we even became friends in the
process. We got our project done on time no problem and made it the best we
possibly could with all of our brains put together.
On top of that I learned that going
to a museum is not as boring as I always believed it to be because of English
15S. I would have never gone to the Palmer Museum here at Penn State if it were
not for this class. By visiting it I realized that although I am not creative
myself I could still enjoy looking at art created by other people. Viewing the
art in this museum changed my perspective on museums because all of the museums
that I have visited in the past with my parents did not appeal to me at all but
the Palmer Museum did. I may have never gone to another museum in the future
but as a result of going with my English class this year I most likely will
now!
Throughout my four years at Penn
State I probably would have not taken the time to visit the Arboretum either
even though it is right down the road from my current dorm building. It was an
amazing experience to get to walk around this beautiful garden with my
classmates and teacher. As I was taking in the beauty of the plants and flowers
around me I realized that, although I am not normally a nature lover, I could
come to enjoy taking some time out of my day to appreciate it. This learning
experience was extremely similar to that that I gained out of visiting the
Palmer Museum. Through both I learned that it is not difficult to expand my
hobbies and interests and try new things that I would normally try to avoid.
Lastly, what is an English class
without learning about how to improve in one’s writing skills and techniques? I
definitely learned about some tools for writing in my English 15S class this
semester! Through this class I was taught how to shorten my sentences and make
them more to the point in fewer words. I tend to make my sentences pretty
lengthy so this benefitted me a lot. For example, I would normally write the
sentence, “The boy opened up the closed container of pretzels.” In this
sentence the word “closed” is not necessary because if the boy needs to open
the container it was obviously closed in the first place. Therefore the
sentence can really be written as, “The boy opened up the container of
pretzels.” This sentence makes more sense and I am now able to realize that in
my own writing.
2.
1. State of the Arts- Palmer Museum Visit
8. The Persuasion of Art- Animal House Movie Review
3. Hi, Ms. S—I
completed my SRTEs!
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