English 1A reflection

My reflection about this class

        When I walked into this classroom, I thought that it was going to be a normal class that a normal teacher usually teaches in an average university.With a written out schedule and such, as well as those boring lectures that make you do useless research. But as the weeks have gone by, I saw that everything wasn't going to be like those classrooms. After reading The Rich and the Rest of Us, my eyes opened and made me look at the world around me in a whole different perspective. I saw that there was people that were living in about the same economic situation or worse. And what made me upset is that is happening here around where I'm living in one of the strongest industrialized nations in the world. Also in the weeks in this classroom, I've increased my knowledge about what social and economic changes are happening here in the United States. Although with all the talk that happens in the classroom, sometimes I feel a bit overwhelmed with what it is being talked in the classroom. But for me, this "confusion" makes me want to know more about the topic, so I do a lot of research for both sides of what is being discussed. That way I can come up with my own standpoint in what I believe. All the talk that is happening in the class makes me want to take action, but since there is a lot of sides to the topic, it makes it hard to come up with a place to start. Even coming up with a thesis in the last essay was a bit overwhelming because I dint know how to start it or how to make my point clear on paper.

         As of now, I really don't know where I stand in this class and if I'm doing good or not due to the fact that there is a large amount of sides to the story, which makes it hard to come up with something good. Also the response time for the blogs is a bit confusing because I really don't know how I did in my homework and what I need to improve on when it comes to writing papers because the way I'm supposed to write in this class is something I have never done before in my previous classes. My previous classes gave me topics that usually were about something that happened in history but wasn't recent. Also the way to find information is kind of new because in my other English classes, I usually had to cite texts and articles that I found in school databases. In contrast, this class takes it a step further and actually makes you do research in the web as well as from books to websites that are for and against what your standpoint on the topic is. 

      

         To summarize, I like this class but it can be a bit overwhelming with all the information that we have to process.I felt that before I knew somewhat about politics, but this class has made me realize that it isn't how it is portrayed in the media and such. It makes me want to keep going to class and learn more even though it takes time to process.